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In this episode of the Smashing Podcast we’re talking about online privacy. What should web developers be doing to make sure the privacy of our users is maintained? Drew McLellan talks to an expert on the subject, Laura Kalbag, to find out.
We were wondering - can we just enable Linux "conntrack"? How does it actually work? I volunteered to help the team understand the dark corners of the Linux's "conntrack" stateful firewall subsystem.
Let's build a literal grid of squares, and we'll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a logo
A pattern for you to use in custom hooks to enhance the power and flexibility of your hooks.
7am I’m definitely not a morning person, so when my alarm goes off, I can’t help but stay in bed a little while longer. I have two cats, Stella and Orion, who are especially cuddly in the mornings, so it’s hard to leave them and get out of bed. My cats are well known by…
Writing is a crucial skill every software developer should cultivate. And writing on your own technical blog can have immense benefits to your career as a software developer and help you cultivate your skills and expertise. Creating and hosting a technical blog provides an opportunity to do just that. In this article, Zara Cooper will take a look at how to deploy a blog for free and with minimal e
You make sure the text is more than twice the width of the screen, then use negative translate animations to do the marquee movement.
When I prefer to use function declarations instead of arrow functions
Check out our fourteenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
When I arrived at Cloudflare for an internship in the summer of 2018, I was taken on a tour, introduced to my mentor who took me out for coffee (shoutout to Preston), and given a quick whiteboard overview of how Cloudflare works.
I just can't stop bookmarking great links related to typography. I'm afraid I'm going to have to subject you, yet again, to a bunch of them all grouped up. So
JavaScript and CSS have lived beside one another for upwards of 20 years. And yet it’s been remarkably tough to share data between them. There have been large
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Early this month, [The Ethical Design Handbook](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/ethical-design-handbook/) joined the Smashing Library of essential books for designers and developers. Changes around the world have meant changes in the book release, but readers love it so far! Ethical Design principles are timeless and we are seeing the results of that during an unprecedented time of
Today we made a mistake. The mistake caused a number of LGBTQIA+ sites to inadvertently be blocked by the new 1.1.1.1 for Families service. I wanted to walk through what happened, why, and what we've done to fix it.
Today we are announcing that we will double the size of Cloudflare’s summer 2020 internship class.
Austin Gil has kicked off the first in a five-part series about "HTML Forms Right" and to starts with semantics. It's talking to the "we build our front-ends
If you’re looking for a new typeface for that side project of yours then here’s a great website by John D. Jameson that collects a bunch of the latest type
The internet has been around for a long while, and over time we’ve changed the way we think about web design. Many old techniques and ways of doing things
Justin Duke asks if treating code comments like footnotes could help us understand the code in a file better. In his mockup, all the comments are hidden by
There are lots of hidden secrets, keyboard shortcuts, hacks, and more that can make you and your team’s GitHub experience more productive, personal, and entertaining. Here are some Protips that Vitor Monteiro, GitHub Strategic Architect, has picked up along the way that might be useful to you.
Creating front-end code in Django with templating and server-side rendering combines the fine-grained control of handwritten HTML with the clean code and powerful features of generated pages. We explore breaking down a complex webpage into multiple templates, composing those components, and applying tags and filters to refactor a plain HTML page.
While WARP started as an option within the 1.1.1.1 app, it's really a technology that can benefit any device connected to the Internet. In fact, one of the most common requests we've gotten over the last year is support for WARP for macOS and Windows. Today we're announcing exactly that.
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families — the easiest way to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content.
