2020: Year in review
2020: Year in review
Sparks Of Inspiration To Welcome The New Year (January 2021 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
What better way could there be to start the new year than with some fresh inspiration? Our collection of wallpapers for January 2021 is bound to put a smile on your face — and maybe spark new ideas, too.
Cloudinary Tricks for Video
Creating video is time consuming. A well-made 5-minute video can take hours to plan, record, and edit — and that's before we start talking about
The Rules of Margin Collapse
Josh Comeau covers the concept of margin collapsing:
The shibboleth of PostgreSQL
A shibboleth is a phase whose pronounciation determines if you belong or not. This article tells you how not to pronounce "PostgreSQL".
Announcing the GitHub Education Classroom Report 2020
For the fourth year in a row, the GitHub Education team surveyed students and educators to provide faculty with information to support augmented instruction and share key insights from other…
2020 year in review: Connectivity innovations, faster apps, and progress toward net zero
It goes without saying that 2020 has been a challenging year, to put it lightly. But if anything, the COVID-19 pandemic has shined a light on our need to connect as people. For Facebook, that meant our work has become more important than ever. Whether it was finding new and innovative ways to expand internet […]
A Practical Introduction To Dependency Injection — Smashing Magazine
This article is the first part of an upcoming series that provides a practical introduction to Dependency Injection in a manner that immediately permits you to realize its many benefits without being hampered down by theory. Today, Jamie Corkhill will depict only a very practical example of dependency injection in use and mostly neglect the theoretical attributes. He does it this way in order to m
Simulating Drop Shadows with the CSS Paint API
Ask a hundred front-end developers, and most, if not all, of them will have used the box-shadow property in their careers. Shadows are enduringly popular, and
Smashing Podcast Episode 32: Review Of The Year 2020 — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re taking a look back at 2020. Who did we speak to in our episodes this year, and what did we learn? Let’s listen back to some clips to find out.
Create a Tag Cloud with some Simple CSS and even Simpler JavaScript
I’ve always liked tag clouds. I like the UX of seeing what tags are most popular on a website by seeing the relative font size of the tags, popular tags being
It turns out that Thunderbolt works now
Creativity In A World Of Technology: Does It Exist? — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Maggie Mackenzie investigates the intricate dynamics associated with the relationship between creativity and technology and discussing whether or not creativity still exists. She will explore what creativity looks like and who (or what) is it now coming from. Ultimately, if creativity is truly being impacted by technology, is there a way to find the balance between the human and t
A Utility Class for Covering Elements
Big ol' same to Michelle Barker here:
Using One Cron Parser Everywhere With Rust and Saffron
Cron parsers are everywhere, each supporting their own extensions on the cron string format, which made consistency between parts of Cron Triggers difficult to achieve. Today we’re showing how we easily solved this problem with Rust without needing to write the same code twice.
Holiday Season Update from Lisbon
Cloudflare Lisbon has come a long way. We now have 74 incredibly talented people working or joining in areas such as Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Customer Support, People, Places, Product Management, Emerging Technologies or Accounting, and growing fast.
Integrating TypeScript with Svelte
Svelte is one of the newer JavaScript frameworks and it’s rapidly rising in popularity. It’s a template-based framework, but one which allows for arbitrary
WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app
What’s Coming To VueX? — Smashing Magazine
Vuex is the go-to state management library for Vue applications, and the Vue core team has some big plans to make it better than ever. Vuex 5 will work more like a composition API alternative but keeps all the benefits of using an official state management library. In this article, Joseph Zimmerman will take a look at what will be changing.
Integrating Cloudflare Gateway and Access
We’re excited to announce that you can now set up your Access policies to require that all user traffic to your application is filtered by Cloudflare Gateway. This ensures that all of the traffic to your self-hosted and SaaS applications is secured and centrally logged.
Continuous Performance Analysis with Lighthouse CI and GitHub Actions
Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. The easiest way
Highlights from Game Off 2020
Game Off is our annual month-long game jam. This year’s theme was “moonshot,” and there were more than 500 tre-moon-dous submissions! 🌛 Here are some of the top-rated games as…
The Read Aloud Cloud: An Interview With Forrest Brazeal On His New Book - High Scalability -
It's Christmas time and you've been wracking your brain trying to find the perfect gift that will teach your loved ones about the cloud in a simple and entertaining way. What to do? Fortunately for you, Santa has a new elf this year—Forrest Brazeal—who is part AWS Serverless Hero, part skilled cartoonist, and part cloud guru. Yes, it's a cartoon book about the cloud! The Read Aloud Cloud No, I did
How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics — Smashing Magazine
Progressive web applications are proven to raise user engagement and keep the costs down effectively. Building a modern PWA requires more than just the core setup to keep up with the user’s expectations. Today, Gert Svaiko will take a first-hand look at adding contemporary characteristics to PWAs, from functioning offline to user-friendly permission requests.
Beat - An Acoustics Inspired DDoS Attack
On the week of Black Friday, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated “Beat” - an acoustics inspired DDoS attacks that targeted a Magic Transit customer.
Cloudflare Acquires Linc
Today, we’re excited to announce the acquisition of Linc, an automation platform to help front-end developers collaborate and build powerful applications.
"Yes or No?"
Sara Soueidan digs into this HTML/UX situation. "Yes" or "no" is a boolean situation. A checkbox represents this: it's either on or off (uh, mostly). But is a
Recognizing Constraints
There’s a “C” word in web development that we don’t give enough attention to. No, I’m not talking about “continuous integration”, or even “CSS”. The “C” word
How to launch a tech career in 2021
How GitHub Education and Major League Hacking have teamed up to bridge the gap between school and work.
Let’s talk about securing open source projects
In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open…
Git clone: a data-driven study on cloning behaviors
@derrickstolee recently discussed several different git clone options, but how do those options actually affect your Git performance? Which option is fastest for your client experience? Which option is fastest for your build machines?…
Catalina: instead of fix, package contained chime
Feature Prioritizing: Ways To Reduce Subjectivity And Bias — Smashing Magazine
When you’re working on a new project, what is more crucial than choosing the right features to develop? However, the exercise often turns into a spectacle of team voting. As a result, decisions change many times down the road. In thi article, Slava Shestopalov will talk about the pitfalls of popular prioritization techniques and approaches to reducing bias and disagreement.
Configure identity-based policies in Cloudflare Gateway
You can now build secure web gateway rules based on user and group identity.
Retrospective on Fela
I really appreciate a real-world walkthrough of a technology. Not only in what that technology does, but why it was chosen and how it worked for a team.
Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that…
GitHub joins amicus brief warning of systemic risk from private sector offensive actors
Today, GitHub joined an amicus brief in NSO v. WhatsApp, opposing the expansion of foreign sovereign immunity to private cyber-surveillance companies that act on behalf of foreign governments. GitHub joined…
Visualizing GitHub’s global community
This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
How we built the GitHub globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…
A smaller, faster video calling library for our apps
We are rolling out a new video calling library to all the relevant products across our apps and services, including Instagram, Messenger, Portal, Workplace chat, etc. To create a library generic enough to support all these different use cases, we needed to rewrite our existing library from scratch using the latest version of the open […]
Optimizing data warehouse storage - Netflix TechBlog
At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3, and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. At this scale, we can gain a significant amount…
Building A Stocks Price Notifier App Using React, Apollo GraphQL And Hasura — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Ankita Masand will show you how to build an event-based application and send a web-push notification when a particular event is triggered. She’ll set up database tables, events, and scheduled triggers on the Hasura GraphQL engine and wire up the GraphQL endpoint to the front-end application to record the stock price preference of the user.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 19th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Hey, it's HighScalability time once again! NASA Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one with the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon it has 212 mostly 5 star reviews. Here's a load-balanced and fault-tolerant review: Number Stuff: * 1 billion: TikTok users in half the
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Computing Euclidean distance on 144 dimensions
Last year we deployed a CSAM image scanning tool. This is so cool! Image processing is always hard, and deploying a real image identification system at a Cloudflare scale is no small achievement! But we hit a problem - the matching algorithm was too slow for our needs.
A quirk in the SUNBURST DGA algorithm
On Wednesday, December 16, the RedDrip Team from QiAnXin Technology released their discoveries (tweet, github) regarding the random subdomains associated with the SUNBURST malware which was present in the SolarWinds Orion compromise. I
Optimizing Image Depth
Something I learned (or, I guess, re-learned) this year is how important it is to pay close attention to the bit depth of images. Way back in the day, we used
Change vs. Inertia
Recently, I've become more deeply aware of the inherent tension between change and inertia, as it applies to the evolution and use of web technologies. These
What Makes CSS Hard To Master
Tim Severien:
How to make DevOps your competitive advantage
2020 has been a year of change, with shifts to the way organizations of every size connect, collaborate, and build together. From our 2020 State of the Octoverse report to…
Learn about ghapi, a new third-party Python client for the GitHub API
Learn about ghapi, a third-party Python library and CLI client for the GitHub API. It includes tab-completion, integrated documentation and automatic pagination of responses. ghapi automatically manages required headers, query strings, route parameters, post data, and much more.
Happy anniversary GitHub Security Lab!
Last year at GitHub Universe, we introduced the GitHub Security Lab, which is committed to contributing resources, tooling, bounties, and security research to secure the open source ecosystem. We know…
How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser - Shopify
At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
Counting Down To Bundles Of Smashing Joy And Workshops In 2021 — Smashing Magazine
We know how difficult it can sometimes be to stay on top of things. In this monthly edition, you can read more about what’s cookin’ at Smashing and explore some of the most popular resources featured in our newsletter in the past few weeks.
Three Improvements to Project Creation & Git Integration
We've improved the developer experience by introducing three updates that apply to all users on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise plans.
Introducing Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
Across multiple cultures around the world, this time of year is a time of celebration and sharing of gifts with the people we care the most about.
I learned to love the Same-Origin Policy
I spent a good chunk of my work life this year trying (in collaboration with the amazing Noam Rosenthal) to standardize a new web platform feature: a way to
What's Old is New
This year, I learned a lot about how "old" tricks can solve a lot of modern problems if you use the right tools. Following the growth of Jamstack-style
25 Years of JavaScript & 25 Free Courses
Pluralsight is giving away 25 courses on JavaScript for free to celebrate JavaScript's 25th birthday. It's no cheapie, either. The courses range from getting
Inside Figma: a case study on strict null checks
A look at how we identify and address bugs