Announcing Built with Workers
You ask "What can I build with Cloudflare Workers?" @cloudflare responds:
Apollo GraphQL without JavaScript
It's cool to see progressive enhancement being done even while using the fanciest of the fancy front-end technologies.
Four Layouts for the Price of One
Pretty notable when a tweet about a flexbox layouts gets 8K+ likes on Twitter!
Practice GraphQL Queries With the State of JavaScript API
Learning how to build GraphQL APIs can be quite challenging. But you can learn how to use GraphQL APIs in 10 minutes! And it so happens I've got the perfect
Postmortem: Service disruption on January 21-22, 2020
The root cause of our recent service outage and our next steps
GitHub Desktop 2.3 removes obstacles to help you be more productive
GitHub Desktop brings two features that avoid permission failures: rerouting when pushing to a cloned repository and rerouting when pushing to a protected branch.
React Native is the Future of Mobile at Shopify - Shopify
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
Using CSCS Scripting Language For Cross-Platform Development — Smashing Magazine
As opposed to JavaScript and Python, variables and functions in CSCS are case-insensitive. The primary goal of CSCS is to let the developer write as little code as possible. In this article, Vassili Kaplan explains how you can use a scripting language to develop cross-platform mobile applications. You’ll find examples in both iOS and Android that include placing widgets on the screen, SQLite, Web
Empowering Your Privacy
Happy Data Privacy Day! At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet, and we believe data privacy is core to that mission. But we know words are cheap — even data brokers who sell your personal information will tell you that “privacy is important” to them.
Use and Reuse Everything in SVG… Even Animations!
If you are familiar with SVG and CSS animations and started to work with them often, here are some ideas you might want to keep in mind before jumping into
Set Type on a Circle... with offset-path
Here's some legit CSS trickery from yuanchuan. There is this CSS property offset-path. Once upon a time, it was called motion-path and then it was renamed. I
aviationstack
I wonder how many startup ideas have something to do with air travel? 🤔
Figma on Figma: How we built our website design system
A look at how the Figma marketing team built, and continues to build, the design system for figma.com
How Smashing Magazine Manages Content: Migration From WordPress To JAMstack
WordPress adoption is massive. So why would a WordPress site consider moving to JAMstack? In this technical case study, Sarah Drasner will cover what an actual WordPress migration looks like, using Smashing Magazine itself! She’ll talk through the gains and losses, the things she wishes she knew earlier, and what she was surprised by. Let’s dig in!
Smashing Podcast Episode 8 With Stephanie Stimac And Aaron Gustafson: What’s New In Microsoft Edge? — Smashing Magazine
We’re taking a look at the brand new version of Microsoft Edge and its Chromium-based rendering engine. What does that change mean for web developers, and how does the death of Microsoft’s own rendering engine impact the web? Today, Drew McLellan talks to Microsoft’s Aaron Gustafson and Stephanie Stimac to find out.
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
An analysis, based on CDNJS data, of when and if JavaScript libraries are updated after being installed onto websites.
What does "revert" do in CSS?
Miriam Suzanne explains in a Mozilla Developer video on the subject.
Woodworking SVG (and Other Real Life Encounters)
Eric Meyer does his woodworking math in SVG.
How To Design Powerful Narratives On Mobile — Smashing Magazine
Want to build a website or PWA that attracts a large audience and then converts as much of that audience into paying customers as possible? If that’s the case, what you need to do is use storytelling in your design — and there are a bunch of ways to do this. The key is to pair your client’s story, brand image, and goals with the style of story you decide to tell. There’s a ton of variation in how
What's the Difference Between Width/Height in CSS and Width/Height HTML attributes?
Some HTML elements accept width and height as attributes. Some do not. Those attributes are sometimes referred to as presentational attributes. The thing to know about them is that they are overridden by any other styling information whatsoever. That makes them ideal as a fallback.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 24th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Instead of turning every car into rolling sensor studded supercomputers, roads could be festooned with stationary edge command and control pods for offloading compute, sensing and managing traffic. Cars become mostly remote controlled pleasure palaces. Solves compute, latency, and interop. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Your support on Patreon is appreciated mo
How To Empower Design Teams By Measuring Value — Smashing Magazine
How do we know if we are truly impactful as a design team? Are we seen as a vehicle to deliver a solution that moves a needle? The business value of design has been proven at scale by the McKinsey Design Index. and the study shows the best design performers increased their revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry counterparts. It’s time to empower our design team
Building Multi-Directional Layouts
There are some new features in CSS that can assist us with building layouts for different directions and languages with ease. This article is about CSS
This Page is Designed to Last
Jeff Huang, while going through his collection of bookmarks, sadly finds a lot of old pages gone from the internet. Bit rot. It's pretty bad. Most of what