Git credential helper vulnerability announced
Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26 and older.
GitHub is free for teams
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP
Slack launched in 2014 with a PHP 5 backend. Along with several other companies, we switched to HHVM in 2016 because it ran our PHP code faster. We stayed with HHVM because it offers an entirely new language: Hack (searchable as Hacklang). Hack makes our developers faster by improving productivity through better tooling. Hack began as a superset of PHP, retaining its best…
How To Create A Particle Trail Animation In JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
If you are thinking about distracting visitors of your website with a fancy, glittering particle animation for a few moments, while some data is loaded in the background, all you need is some basic knowledge of CSS and JavaScript and a lightweight animation library such as anime.js. In the end, we should have the following result: Particle animations belong to the most impressive animations that e
Environment Variables UI
Configure different Environment Variables for Production, Preview, and Development – right in the Dashboard.
Helping sites get back online: the origin monitoring intern project
Over the course of ten weeks, our team of three interns (two engineering, one product management) went from a problem statement to a new feature, which is still working in production for all Cloudflare customers.
Cloudflare for SSH, RDP and Minecraft
Cloudflare now covers SSH, RDP and Minecraft, offering DDoS protection and increased network performance. Spectrum pay-as-you-go now available on all paid plans.
Styling in the Shadow DOM With CSS Shadow Parts
Safari 13.1 just shipped support for CSS Shadow Parts. That means the ::part() selector is now supported in Chrome, Edge, Opera, Safari, and Firefox. We’ll
No-Class CSS Frameworks
I linked up Water.css not long ago as an interesting sort of CSS framework. No classes. No <h2 class="is-title">. You just use semantic HTML and get
CSS Variables for React Devs
CSS variables are *really* cool, and they're incredibly powerful when it comes to React! This tutorial shows how we can use them with React to create dynamic themes. We'll see how to get the most out of CSS-in-JS tools like styled-components, and how our mental frame around media queries has been wrong all along.
Stop using client-side route redirects
Why you should stop using client-side route redirects (like the `from` prop on React Router's Redirect component) and what you should do instead.
Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography — Smashing Magazine
In this eighth issue of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explain how learning about American graphic designer and typographer Herb Lubalin has transformed his approach to typography on the web. How can we combine elements to develop powerful headers and calls to action? How do we use pre-formatted HTML text, and the text element in SVG for precise control over type? How can we optimise
Remote work, regional lockdowns and migration of Internet usage
As a large portion of Internet access shifted from office-focused areas, like city centers and business parks, towards more residential areas like suburbs and outlying towns, we wanted to find out just precisely how broad this geographical traffic migration was.
Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
Rolling With The Punches: Shifting Attack Tactics & Dropping Packets Faster & Cheaper At The Edge
Over the past 6 months, volumetric DDoS attacks decreased by 82%. However volumetric attacks are not gone yet, still peaking as high as 418 Gbps. In this post, we cover the changing attack landscape and how Cloudflare adapts and evolves to keep the internet safe.
File locking using the Dropbox API
Prevent unwanted edits to your files by using the new file locking feature in the Dropbox API.
Remote work: A series of best practices for a remote workplace
GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
Getting Started With The React Hooks API — Smashing Magazine
In this tutorial, you are going to learn and understand what React hooks are, the basic React Hooks that are available and also examples of how to write them for your React applications. In the process, you will also get to know about some additional hooks that were shipped with React 16.8 and also how to write your own custom React Hooks.
Internship Experience: Cryptography Engineer
A member of the research team recounts his experience as an intern.
Create Diagonal Layouts Like it's 2020
Nils Binder covers the ways:
Building on our open platform: Design in Figma, prototype with Framer
Learn more about our new integration with Framer.
From 48k lines of code to 10—the story of GitHub’s JavaScript SDK
Learn about the legacy, architecture, and methods used to reduce 48k lines of code to 10 as we take a deep dive into GitHub’s Javascript SDK.
Featured actions from the GitHub Actions Hackathon
We want to thank everyone who participated in the GitHub Actions Hackathon. We had hundreds of submissions, so here’s our top picks.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Lee Reilly
Check out Lee Reilly’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience. You won’t believe tip number eight!
