How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
Interesting research from Dan Luu¹:
Is BGP Safe Yet? No. But we are tracking it carefully
BGP leaks and leaks and hijacks have been accepted as an unavoidable part of the Internet for far too long. Today, we are releasing isBGPSafeYet.com, a website to track deployments and filtering of invalid routes by the major networks.
Time-Based One-Time Passwords for Phone Support
Cloudflare Enterprise customers can now authenticate themselves for phone support using TOTP tokens, either by using an authenticator app or generating single-use tokens from the Cloudflare Dashboard.
Better Form Inputs for Better Mobile User Experiences
Here’s one simple, practical way to make apps perform better on mobile devices: always configure HTML input fields with the correct type, inputmode, and
Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS
Between each post of Eric Meyer’s blog there’s this rather lovely illustration that can randomly be one of these five options:
Front-End Challenges
My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. Literally just build websites. If you can do it for money, great, you should. If the
Figma + Lambda School: Where the remote classroom comes together to learn
Collaborative, interactive lessons inspire a new generation of design professionals
Staying Connected And Learning From Each Other — Smashing Magazine
A month is a long time to stay on top of things. Here you’ll find an overview of everything we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month. Of course, you can always find us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and also stay updated with our RSS feed as well as our Smashing Newsletter (sent out every second week with all sorts of goodies!).
Cloudflare Workers Now Support COBOL
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.
Cloudflare Dashboard and API Outage on April 15, 2020
Starting at 1531 UTC and lasting until 1952 UTC, the Cloudflare Dashboard and API were unavailable because of the disconnection of multiple, redundant fibre connections from one of our two core data centers.
Jetpack Instant Search!
Jetpack has had a search feature for a while. Flip it on, and it replaces your built-in WordPress search (which is functional, but not particularly good) with
Remote work: Working together when we’re not together
GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Mexico, plus some exciting updates
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available in Mexico, and we’ve also released a lot of exciting new features for sponsored developers, inspired by the community.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Jason Etcovitch
From GitHub Actions and magic URLs to gists, check out Jason Etcovich’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience.
Django Highlights: Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
The admin panel is one of the most powerful, flexible features that the Django web framework provides, combining instant off-the-shelf functionality with infinite customization. Using an example project based on a library inventory system, we’ll use the admin panel to learn about creating models and interacting with relational databases in Django.
Offer of Assistance to Governments During COVID-19
During the spread of COVID-19, Cloudflare is offering free services to government agencies around the world to help them stay online and provide essential information to the public.
Research, remotely
Tips for running user interviews and debriefs when your team's working remotely
npm has joined GitHub
With the npm acquisition complete, we’re ready to start the next chapter of npm and support the JavaScript community in a new way.
Software Release Culture at Shopify - Shopify
We try to find the path to those goals that our developers want to take. We want to create experiences through tooling that can make our developers feel productive, and we want to do our best to make shipping feel like a celebration and not a chore.
Best Practices With React Hooks — Smashing Magazine
React provides a few built-in Hooks like useState. You can also create your own Hooks to reuse stateful behavior between different components. The example below shows a counter whose state is managed using the useState() hook. Each time you click on the button, we make use of setCount() to update the value of count by 1. In this article, Adeneye David Abiodun covers the rules of React Hooks and ho
Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
Intersecting GPS-Tracks to identify infected individuals
PostGIS' functions can be used to trace down infected people and their contact with healthy individuals | GPS-Tracks | spatial data
Refactoring: This class is too large
In this article I walk through a set of refactorings from a real code base. This is not intended to demonstrate perfection, but it does represent reality.
Sawfish phishing campaign targets GitHub users
A phishing campaign targeting our customers lures GitHub users into providing their credentials (including two-factor authentication codes). Learn more about the threat and what you can do to protect yourself.
