A simple way to get more value from metrics
Remote work: How global teams collaborate across time zones
GitHub international leaders share their insights on how to work with globally distributed teams.
Bad times in corporate wireless networks
Readability Algorithms Should Be Tools, Not Targets — Smashing Magazine
In recent years a slew of ‘readability’ programs have appeared to help us tidy up the things we write. Used everywhere from newsrooms to browser plugins, these systems offer automated feedback on how writing can be clearer, neater, and less contrived. Sounds good right? Well, up to a point. Readability programs may seem like a godsend, but the worst thing writers can do is write to please them abo
How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%.
Alia Rose Connor: Agile Coach Manager
Usually, I live in Brooklyn and start the day with a 45-minute commute to the office. But at the moment, things are very different – my partner and I are holed up at our little place in the woods near New Paltz, so now I just start the day with some yoga before jumping online for my first meeting. When we bought this house last September, we had no idea what a refuge it would turn out to be. So I
Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on Liked Songs enabled his team to address a much deeper issue and improve the listening experience of end users, whatever their device or network.
Protecting Deployments
DDoS attacks have evolved, and so should your DDoS protection
Building a modern DDoS solution that is truly effective in thwarting ever-evolving DDoS attacks, to protect all of our customers has been a core tenet for us - enabling us to be an industry leader.
Empowering our Customers and Service Partners
We wanted to highlight some amazing partners and our growing support and training for MSPs around the globe.
The Serverlist: Workers Supports COBOL, Workers @ Opendoor, and more!
Check out our fifteenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXVIII
Hey hey, these "chronicle" posts are little roundups of news that I haven't gotten a chance to link up yet. They are often things that I've done off-site,
Figma’s Series D round
Figma announces Series D funding led by Peter Levine and Marc Andreessen at a16z.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Brian Douglas
Make better contributions, triage your issues efficiently, save time with saved replies, and more with @bdougie’s protips.
Why My Blog is Closed-Source
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the source. If you're considering whether a project should be open-source or not, I hope you'll find it valuable.
If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience
Categorizing Products at Scale - Shopify
By: Jeet Mehta and Kathy Ge With over 1M business owners now on Shopify, there are billions of products being created and sold across the platform. Just like those business owners, the products that they sell are extremely diverse! Even when selling similar products, they tend to describe products very differently. One may describe their sock product as a “woolen long sock,” whereas another may ha
Join Our New Online Workshops On CSS, Accessibility, Performance, And UX — Smashing Magazine
As we have now formalized our workshop process, we thought we’d share a little more about how these events run. Unlike in-person workshops where we keep you in a room for an eight hour day, we realized than many of you have a lot of other commitments right now. Our initial online workshops went so well, we have scheduled many more. Find out how what we learned from those first workshops and what w
Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Mirage JS Models And Associations (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
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
Brighten Up Someone’s May (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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
Doubling the intern class - and making it all virtual
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.
Bridge design and development with the new Zeplin integration
Introducing a redesigned Zeplin integration with Figma.
Keystone Interface
Dark Launching
Humble Object
Why strace doesn't work in Docker
Why strace doesn't work in Docker
Rolling out the "push train"
How To Succeed In Wireframe Design — Smashing Magazine
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
Creating a True One-Stop Solution for Companies to Go Global: Announcing a Partnership Between Cloudflare and JD Cloud & AI
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.
How to Redirect a Search Form to a Site-Scoped Google Search
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.
Using Formik to Handle Forms in React
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
Intersecting Tracks of individuals – MobilityDB
How to use MobilityDB for contact tracking. Extension built on top of PostGIS, specializing on processing and analysing spatio-temporal data
Engineering a disruption tolerant supply chain
Triggering garbage collection with rejected promises to cause use-after-free in Chrome
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.
How to build an effective DevSecOps culture
By prioritizing secure development alongside speed, DevSecOps helps you ship safer applications by making security part of your current DevOps pipeline.
Boiling the machines when they really needed to just chill
Development Environments at Slack
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…
Implementing Dark Mode In React Apps Using styled-components — Smashing Magazine
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
Updates to Stripe’s advanced fraud detection
We’ve recently made a few updates to provide additional clarity about the data we collect and how it’s used.
Releasing kubectl support in Access
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.
Static or Not?
A quick opinion piece by Kev Quirk: Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator. Kev uses WordPress:
DBX Platform launches with three new APIs
The DynamoDB Book: An Interview With Alex DeBrie On His New Book - High Scalability -
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!
New zine: How Containers Work!
Getting Started With Nuxt — Smashing Magazine
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
The Cost of Javascript Frameworks
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
@property
The @property is totally new to me, but I see it's headed to Chrome, so I suppose it's good to know about!
Moving fleet software releases to a massively sharded scheme
Stream Firewall Events directly to your SIEM
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.
How to Make a 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
Chrome + System Fonts Snafu
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
“The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete.”
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’
7 things that could be improved in PostgreSQL
UPDATE July 2023: What could be better in PostgreSQL? Find out about its weak points, and see what has improved since 2020.
Remote work: Engineering’s perspective on humanizing the remote work experience
The GitHub engineering team shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
Super Simple Start to React
The most simple React setup imaginable
Why Collaborative Coding Is The Ultimate Career Hack — Smashing Magazine
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.
Internet performance during the COVID-19 emergency
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.
Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
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
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Alyson La
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!
