2,138 articles published in 2020.
Mirage JS borrowed some terms and concepts which are very much familiar to back-end developers, however, since the library would be used mostly by front-end teams, it’s appropriate to learn what these terms and concepts are. In this first part of the Mirage JS Deep Dive series, Kelvin Omereshone will be looking at Mirage JS models and associations. He’ll take a closer look at what they are and the
As designers, we usually turn to different sources of inspiration, and, well, as a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one: wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. In this collection, Cosima Mielke brings you wallpapers for May 2020. They come in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. As a bonus goodie, we also added some favorites fr
We have found interns to be invaluable. Not only do they bring an electrifying new energy over the summer, but they also come with their curiosity to help solve problems, contribute to major projects, and bring refreshing perspectives to the company.
Introducing a redesigned Zeplin integration with Figma.
Why strace doesn't work in Docker
Today, as designers, we are lucky as never before because there are dozens of tools available for us to design wireframes and also smoothly integrate this activity in our general design process. In this article, Anton Suprunenko will take a deeper look at one of the most simple yet quite often underrated activities in web development: the design of wireframes. You’ll learn what wireframes are, why
Our mission is to help build a better Internet, for everyone, everywhere. So, today we’re excited to announce a significant strategic partnership with JD Cloud & AI, the cloud and intelligent technology business unit of Chinese Internet giant JD.com.
This is just a tiny little trick that might be helpful on a site where you don't have the time or desire to build out a really good on-site search solution.
There is no doubt that web forms play an integral role in our web site or applications. By default, they provide a useful set of elements and features — from
How to use MobilityDB for contact tracking. Extension built on top of PostGIS, specializing on processing and analysing spatio-temporal data
In this post I’ll show how garbage collections (GC) in Chrome may be triggered with small memory allocations in unexpected places, which was then used to cause a use-after-free bug.
By prioritizing secure development alongside speed, DevSecOps helps you ship safer applications by making security part of your current DevOps pipeline.
In this article, development environments refer to sandboxes where you can test your code changes before deploying, and should not be confused with integrated development environments (IDEs) like Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio. Dev environments have always been a mystery to me. Despite learning about them on my first day at Slack, and using them…
Light mode is a convention in most web and mobile apps. However, in modern development, we have seen how dark mode, which displays light text and interface elements on a dark background, is quickly becoming a user preference. In this article, Blessing Krofegha will show you how to efficiently implement dark mode in a React app on a simple web page, using the styled-components library and leveragin
We’ve recently made a few updates to provide additional clarity about the data we collect and how it’s used.
Starting today, you can use Cloudflare Access and Argo Tunnel to securely manage your Kubernetes cluster with the kubectl command-line tool. SSO requirements and a zero-trust model to your Kubernetes management in under 30 minutes.
A quick opinion piece by Kev Quirk: Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator. Kev uses WordPress:
You know nothing about DynamoDB. At least that’s what I realized the first time I heard Rick Houlihan give his now infamous talk at AWS re:Invent 2018 on Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB. In that talk Rick revealed for the first time the inner arcana of single-table design. Minds were blown. Weaknesses were revealed. Futures were changed. As a mere novice in the way
New zine: How Containers Work!
Developers often worry about the SEO of their SPAs (Single Page Applications) and how well they would do on Google searches (blogs, portfolio websites, product websites, and so on). Sometimes, they also worry about how complex building a server-side rendered application might be. In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create server-side rendered applications by using Nuxt.js, how to configu
I expect this post from Tim Kadlec to be quoted in every performance conference talk for the next few years. There is a lot of data here, so please check it
The @property is totally new to me, but I see it's headed to Chrome, so I suppose it's good to know about!
As of today, customers using Cloudflare Logs can create Logpush jobs that send only Firewall Events. These events arrive much faster than our existing HTTP requests logs: they are typically delivered to your logging platform within 60 seconds of sending the response to the client.
Editor's Note: Chrome is prototyping a new feature for creating carousels directly in CSS, including scroll buttons and scroll markers for navigating between
There was just a bug late last year where system fonts (at least on Mac, I don't know what the story was on other platforms) in Chrome appeared too thin and
That title is from the opening tweet of a thread from Benjamin De Cock. I wouldn't go that far, myself. What I like about the term is that ‘Front-End’
UPDATE July 2023: What could be better in PostgreSQL? Find out about its weak points, and see what has improved since 2020.
The GitHub engineering team shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
The most simple React setup imaginable
Whatever stage you’re at in your career, coding collaboratively is one of the best uses of your time. With remote working on the rise, there’s never been a better time to practice pair programming and embrace Agile development.
The Internet has shown that it was built for this: designed to handle huge changes in traffic, outages, and a changing mix of use. As we are well into April I thought it was time for an update.
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We've also written a series of articles explaining how traditional databases built
Check out Alyson La’s favorite tips for getting started with Git and GitHub. Get into the GitHub Flow, try out a few tools, practice merge conflicts, and more!
Node.js is an interesting tool for web developers. With its high level of concurrency, it has become a leading candidate for people choosing tools to use in web development. In this article, we will learn about what makes up Node.js, give it a meaningful definition, understand how the internals of Node.js interact with one another, and explore the project repository for Node.js on GitHub.
Today, we’re opening Stripe Issuing access to everyone in the US, so you can sign up and start creating cards instantly.
Matthias Ott's posted his VS Code setup. I find lists like this (I rounded up some recent updates of my own) irresistible, probably because, like y'all, I
Some tried and true ways to use prototypes, and an unexpected use case from the Figma team.
We’re dedicated to making notifications as simple and valuable as they can be, so you can be as productive on GitHub and you can be.
GitHub Actions continues its community momentum and ships new features for enterprises and developers.
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark mode with a statically-built site/app is deceptively tricky. In this in-depth tutorial, we'll see how to build the perfect, flicker-free, customizable theming solution for React/Next.js apps.
Flutter has already made quite a splash on the mobile development scene. Now it’s taking on bigger devices as well. In this article, Carmine Zaccagnino will show you what you need to know to be ready to take on the task of developing web and desktop apps using this wonderful cross-platform framework. Flutter is a lovely framework, very easy to use, and its extreme cross-platform support only makes
Like many, I work remotely and want to show how to deploy Cloudflare Gateway from home. Its DNS filtering protects networks from malware, phishing, ransomware, and other security threats effectively.
Maintaining a large-scale CSS project is hard. Over the years, we've witnessed different approaches aimed at easing the process of writing scalable CSS. In
PostgreSQL v13 introduces autovacuum for insert-only tables. This article tells you why and how to make use of this new feature.
Students' stories and what they built in Figma.
GitHub Satellite is back, and this year it’s virtual. Tune in at githubsatellite.com on May 6 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET to hear from CEO Nat Friedman and developers around the world.
Scheduled reminders is out of beta to help your team be more efficient by reducing time spent waiting on code reviews, and more.
A history of an anomaly in the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, an independent research project about it, and what we need to learn about our next steps.
There exists an idiom called “dropping a hash” which is widely understood in the security community and not widely understood elsewhere. Somewhat surprisingly, there does not appear to be a canonical explanation. I have dropped hashes before and wrote this up to explain the significance of it to non-specialists.
What the research is: A scalable service management platform for Facebook’s stream processing service. Turbine is designed to bridge the gap between the capabilities of existing general-purpose cluster management frameworks like Tupperware and Facebook’s stream processing requirements. In production for several years now, Turbine has enabled a boom in stream processing at Facebook. Turbine is
