Goodbye, Clean Code
Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.
CSS-Only Carousel
Editor's Note: Chrome is prototyping a new feature for creating carousels directly in CSS, including scroll buttons and scroll markers for navigating between
Water.css
It's notable that Water.css was the #1 clicked thing from Louis Lazaris' Web Tools Weekly in 2019. It's from a 13-year old developer named Felix!
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 10th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Forrest Brazeal warns you not to spend your limited innovation credits building bespoke, complex systems that provide no direct value to your business, instead position yourself at the top of what heI calls the Wisdom/Cleverness Curve Do you like this sort of Stuff? Your support on Patreon is appreciated more than you can know. I also wrote Explain the Cloud Lik
Understanding CSS Grid: Grid Lines — Smashing Magazine
In a new series, Rachel Andrew breaks down the CSS Grid Layout specification. This time, we take a look at how to use the grid lines to place items. The other methods Rachel will show you in future articles are alternate ways to specify your layout, but are based on the grid created by numbered lines. But for today, here you will find pretty much all you need to know about grid lines!
Is it better to use ems/rems than px for font-size?
The answer used to be absolutely yes because, if you used px units, you prevented the text from being resized by the user at all.
Understanding Async Await
When writing code for the web, eventually you'll need to do some process that might take a few moments to complete. JavaScript can't really multitask, so
let vs. const
There are multiple ways to declare variables in JavaScript. We had var, and while that still works like it always has, it is generally said that let and const
Bringing the community together in Figma
There is a lot we are excited about as we look to the year ahead. At the core of it all is the community.
How To Create And Deploy Angular Material Application — Smashing Magazine
A walkthrough of creating an Angular 8 web application and a QR Code generator app completely based on Angular while hosted on Netlify. In this article, Shubham will take you into a walkthrough of creating an Angular 8 web application using the official Angular Material Design library. We will be creating a QR Code generator web application completely based on Angular while hosted on Netlify.
Accelerating UDP packet transmission for QUIC
Significant work has gone into optimizing TCP, UDP hasn't received as much love, putting QUIC at a disadvantage. Let's explore a few tricks that help mitigate this.
Prototyping optimizations with Cloudflare Workers and WebPageTest
Have you ever wanted to quickly test a new performance idea, or see if the latest performance wisdom is beneficial to your site? As web performance appears to be a stochastic process, it is really important to be able to iterate quickly and review the effects of different experiments.
The Auto-Flowing Powers of Grid's Dense Keyword
Let's say we're working on the homepage of a news website. You're probably used to seeing some card-based content in a grid layout, right? Here's a classic
PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 2 – PgBouncer - High Scalability -
When it comes to connection pooling in the PostgreSQL world, PgBouncer is probably the most popular option. It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. A client connects to PgBouncer with the exact same syntax it would use when connecting directly to PostgreSQL – PgBouncer i
The Split Personality Of Brutalist Web Development — Smashing Magazine
No frills, or flashing neon frills with sprinklers attached? ‘Brutalist’ websites have flourished in recent years, but their guiding philosophy remains unclear. Brutalist web design has grown so quickly that there does not seem to be a clear consensus on what the style actually is. To some it means practicality, to others audacity. Love it or hate it, brutalist architecture celebrates rawness.
Security on the Internet with Cloudflare for Teams
When Cloudflare launched, businesses bought expensive on-premise hardware to keep their sites online. If they wanted those sites to be faster, or safer, they needed to buy more boxes.
Cloudflare + Remote Browser Isolation
Cloudflare announced today that it has purchased S2 Systems Corporation, a Seattle-area startup that has built an innovative remote browser isolation solution unlike any other currently in the market.
Introducing Cloudflare for Teams
Ten years ago, when Cloudflare was created, the Internet was a place that people visited. People still talked about ‘surfing the web’ and the iPhone was less than two years old, but on July 4, 2009 large scale DDoS attacks were launched against websites in the US and South Korea.
Jetpack Slideshow Block
One of the many (many) useful things that Jetpack does is give you extra-fancy custom blocks in the WordPress block (AKA Gutenberg) editor: a slideshow,
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Why You Should Choose HTML5 article Over section — Smashing Magazine
Browsers’ visual display of headings nested inside `` elements makes it look as if they are assigning a logical hierarchy to those headings. However, this is purely visual and is not communicated to assistive technologies. In this article, Bruce Lawson explains what use we have of `` and how authors should mark up headings that are hugely important to AT users.
Introducing Increment subscriptions
You can now subscribe to Increment, Stripe’s software engineering magazine.
PaperWM: tiled window management for GNOME
PaperWM: tiled window management for GNOME
Cloudflare Expanded to 200 Cities in 2019
We have some exciting news to ring in the new decade: Cloudflare’s global network has expanded to 200 cities across 90+ countries.