Third-Party Components at Their Best
I'm a fan of the componentization of the web. I think it's a very nice way to build a website at just about any scale (except, perhaps, the absolute most
The Design Squiggle
I think we all have an intuitive understanding that, at the beginning of projects that require our creativity (be it design or code), things feel uncertain
The GitHub Student Developer Pack delivers $200k worth of tools and training to every student
The GitHub Student Developer Pack now delivers over $200k worth of tools and training to every student with the addition of 22 new partners.
Scaling Mobile Development by Treating Apps as Services - Shopify
Scaling development without slowing down the delivery speed of new features is a problem that companies face when they grow. Speed can be achieved through better tooling, but the bigger the teams and projects, the more tooling they need. When projects and teams use different tools to solve similar problems, it gets harder for tooling teams to create one solution that works for everybody. Additiona
Introducing Cloudflare for Campaigns
Cloudflare for Campaigns is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties to get access to cybersecurity services.
How We Tagged Google Fonts and Created goofonts.com
GooFonts is a side project signed by a developer-wife and a designer-husband, both of them big fans of typography. We’ve been tagging Google
A Web Component with Different HTML for Desktop and Mobile
Christian Schaefer has a great big write-up about dealing with web advertisements. The whole thing is interesting, first documenting all the challenges that
Debunking the Myth: Accessibility and React
I find it notable when the blog of a major accessibility-focused company like Deque publishes an article called Debunking the Myth: Accessibility and React.
The Deal with the Section Element
Two articles published the exact same day:
Tips and tricks to kick-start Postgres year 2020
Postgres Tips and Tricks: Benefit from these little Time-Saving commands, SQL snippets or PostgreSQL features for PostgreSQL users.
On Pair Programming
Many people who work in software development today have heard of the practice of pair programming, yet it still only has patchy adoption in the industry. One reason for its varying acceptance is that its benefits are not immediately obvious, it pays off more in the medium- and long-term. And it's also not as simple as “two people working at a single computer”, so many dismiss it quickly when it fe
Reliably Upgrading Apache Airflow at Slack’s Scale
Apache Airflow is a tool for describing, executing, and monitoring workflows. At Slack, we use Airflow to orchestrate and manage our data warehouse workflows, which includes product and business metrics and also is used for different engineering use-cases (e.g. search and offline indexing). For two years we’ve been running Airflow 1.8, and it was time for…
The Mythical Mythical Man-Month — Smashing Magazine
How do you move faster when adding folks to a project supposedly slows it down? Mailchimp’s CPO takes the reader through some considerations for preserving momentum while scaling up. Software is difficult to build with lots of complex interdependencies. And everyone needs to work together to get it done. As you work to manage dependencies and introduce tools to help scale, make sure you clearly co
A cost-effective and extensible testbed for transport protocol development
At Cloudflare, we develop protocols at multiple layers of the network stack. In the past, we focused on HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and TLS 1.3. Now, we are working on QUIC and HTTP/3, which are still in IETF draft, but gaining a lot of interest.
How many CSS properties are there?
Tomasz Łakomy posted a joke tweet about naming all the CSS attributes and Tejas Kumar replied with a joke answer, going as far as making an npm module. You
Business Dad
Congrats to Chris Enns, our podcast editor on ShopTalk and CodePen Radio, for landing a really cool new podcast to edit: Business Dad. It's Alexis Ohanian,
The GitHub for Android beta is here
The GitHub for mobile beta is now available on Android—learn more and sign up to be part of a limited test group.
Game Off 2019 Winners
Thousands of game developers from all over the world participated in Game Off, our annual game jam celebrating open source. Let’s take a look at 2019’s winners.
Smashing Podcast Episode 7 With Amy Hupe: What Is A Government Design System? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re taking a look at the UK Government’s design system. How are design systems used within government? Is it any different to how we might work in the commercial sector? Drew McLellan talks to design systems advocate Amy Hupe.
Highlights from Git 2.25
Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.
Magical Rainbow Gradients
If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible. At least, it wasn't! In this tutorial, we'll leverage bleeding-edge browser features to animate ANY CSS property, including background gradients, using CSS Houdini, CSS variables, and React.
Open source year in review
Last year was a busy one for our open source engineers. In 2019 we released 170 new open source projects, bringing our portfolio to a total of 579 active repositories. While it’s important for our internal engineers to contribute to these projects (and they certainly do — with more than 82,000 commits this year), we […]
An Introduction To React’s Context API — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Yusuff Faruq will show you how to use React’s Context API which allows you to manage global application states in your React apps without resorting to props drilling. In the process you will learn what the Context API is and the problem it solves, how to create Context and consuming it in both functional and class-based components, and when to use the Context API. Let’s start!
Helping mitigate the Citrix NetScaler CVE with Cloudflare Access
Cloudflare Access can help teams build a defense-in-depth mitigation to the Citrix NetScaler CVE for HTTP and SSH requests.