Cloudflare now supports security keys with Web Authentication (WebAuthn)!
We’re excited to announce that Cloudflare now supports security keys as a two factor authentication (2FA) method for all users.
Performant Expandable Animations: Building Keyframes on the Fly
Animations have come a long way, continuously providing developers with better tools. CSS Animations, in particular, have defined the ground floor to solve
How Students Who Design set up Figma in their online classroom
Learn how SWD onboards students, organizes files, teaches classes, and provides project feedback with Figma for their online courses.
Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Blessing Krofegha introduces the concept of the headless CMS, a backend-only content management system that allows developers to create, store, manage and publish the content over an API. It gives developers the power to quickly build excellent user experiences, free from the worry of its impact on the back-end business logic.
How We Use Backstage at Spotify
is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally for years, but only recently released the open source version. You can read more about what Backstage does, and our plans for its future, in our previous post, “”
Stefan Ålund: Senior Product Manager
I usually get up way earlier than this, because it’s a 20-minute subway ride to the office and I have three children to drop off at school en route. But right now, we’re all staying home for the foreseeable future and that means I can take things a little slower, get up a little later and have an extra cup of coffee with my wife in the mornings. It’s a silver lining in this crazy situation.
Reach for the Top: How Spotify Built Shortcuts in Just Six Months
The , which now appears at the top of Spotify Home, is an important step forward in how listeners experience their favorite music and podcasts. Engineering Manager, Damien Tardieu, tells the story behind the launch of this exciting new feature and why the methodology chosen to support its development was the foundation for success.
When Should I Write an Architecture Decision Record
An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is a document that captures a decision, including the context of how the decision was made and the consequences of adopting the decision. At Spotify, a handful of teams use ADRs to document their decisions. One of these teams, The Creator Team, focuses on providing tools for creators to express themselves on Spotify, as well as access data about their content.
Introducing the Spotify Podcast Dataset and TREC Challenge 2020
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more. With the additions of acquisitions including Gimlet and Parcast, we have a whole host of expertly created content, and with the addition of DIY podcasting platform Anchor, now everyone has access to tools to create their own podcast and publish it to Spotify, so the
Ann Clifton: Senior Research Scientist
I like to start the day slowly – I’m not a morning person, so my husband kindly walks the dogs while I enjoy the peace and quiet, and wake myself up with a matcha or kombucha. After that, I’m more ready to get going and start to think about the day ahead of me.
Announcing the Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination
We took a big step toward improving Internet privacy and security with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver. And we really meant privacy first. We were not satisfied with the status quo and believed that secure DNS resolution with transparent privacy practices should be the new normal.
How to run a remote brainstorm
The Figma team shares tips for running a remote brainstorm, based on what’s working well for us.
Optimizing Ruby Lazy Initialization in TruffleRuby with Deoptimization - Shopify
Shopify's involvement with TruffleRuby began half a year ago, with the goal of furthering the success of the project and Ruby community. TruffleRuby is an alternative implementation of the Ruby language (where the reference implementation is CRuby, or MRI) developed by Oracle Labs. TruffleRuby has high potential in speed, as it is nine times faster than CRuby on optcarrot, a NES emulator benchmark
What Should You Do When A Web Design Trend Becomes Too Popular? — Smashing Magazine
By now, you’re probably used to seeing design trends come and go. But have you ever given any thought to what passing trends do to a website when left there for too long? As a web designer, you have a few choices. You can ignore popular design trends altogether; you can adopt them, but pull them out of rotation the second they go stale, or you can put your own unique spin on them. This guide will
Stay Creative, Stay Inspired (April 2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for April 2020.
Introducing Quicksilver: Configuration Distribution at Internet Scale
At peak, Cloudflare’s network processes more than 14 million HTTP requests per second. We spend a lot of time thinking about the tools we use to make those requests faster and more secure.
How They Fit Together: Transform, Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Offset
Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with "independent transforms." That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like:
RSS Stuff
Laura Kalbag wrote How to read RSS in 2020. This would be a nice place to send someone curious about RSS: what it is, what it's for, and how you can start
gqless
This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It's very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data
4 CSS Grid Properties (and One Value) for Most of Your Layout Needs
CSS Grid provides us with a powerful layout system for websites. The CSS-Tricks guide gives you a comprehensive overview of Grid’s properties with layout
How Otter.ai automatically transcribes your media files in Dropbox
You can now automatically transcribe your media files in Dropbox by using the Otter.ai integration. Welcome to the future of work.
Pair Programming
Post: InterviewCamp.io, Scrapinghub, Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, Triplebyte, Stream - High Scalability -
Who's Hiring? * InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. * Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems: large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning
Announcing “use-sound”, a React Hook for Sound Effects
By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps, which interact with three of our human senses (sight, sound, and touch, through haptic feedback). I just released a library to make it easy to add sound to your React app, and I make the case that you should consider using it!