2,138 articles published in 2020.
6:45 am My alarm is set for 6:45 but I often wake up before it goes off. I tend to wake up earlier during Vancouver’s long summer days, when the sun is up from 5:10am to 9:10pm and already peeking through my blinds, but it sometimes happens in the winter when it’s still dark out.…
A landing page is a standalone webpage created to support a specific marketing campaign or targeting a particular search term. They are where users “land” when they click a link in search results, email or an ad. In this article, Paul Boag will show you how to create a compelling landing page, which involves a combination of clear focus, persuasive copy, considered design and relentless testing. W
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about running online workshops. How can a traditional event adapt when participants can’t attend in person? Drew McLellan talks to Rachel Andrew to find out.
Hands-on exercises for learning design.
Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26.1 and older.
Skeleton screens offer a better user experience by reducing loading-time frustration. By focusing on progress instead of wait times, it create the illusion for users that information will be incrementally displayed on the screen. In this tutorial, Blessing Krofegha will show you what a skeleton screen UI is and some types of skeleton screen libraries, along with their pros and cons. We’ll build a
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the initiative to get my system fully upgraded! 🥱 I’ve been slogging away at this for quite some time now. My PC build blog entry series spans 13 glorious years: *
The Internet has been vital to our response to the COVID-19 crisis: enabling researchers to communicate with the rest of the world, connecting resources with people who need them, and sharing data about the spread.
Interesting research from Dan Luu¹:
BGP leaks and leaks and hijacks have been accepted as an unavoidable part of the Internet for far too long. Today, we are releasing isBGPSafeYet.com, a website to track deployments and filtering of invalid routes by the major networks.
Cloudflare Enterprise customers can now authenticate themselves for phone support using TOTP tokens, either by using an authenticator app or generating single-use tokens from the Cloudflare Dashboard.
Here’s one simple, practical way to make apps perform better on mobile devices: always configure HTML input fields with the correct type, inputmode, and
Between each post of Eric Meyer’s blog there’s this rather lovely illustration that can randomly be one of these five options:
My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. Literally just build websites. If you can do it for money, great, you should. If the
Collaborative, interactive lessons inspire a new generation of design professionals
A month is a long time to stay on top of things. Here you’ll find an overview of everything we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month. Of course, you can always find us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and also stay updated with our RSS feed as well as our Smashing Newsletter (sent out every second week with all sorts of goodies!).
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.
Starting at 1531 UTC and lasting until 1952 UTC, the Cloudflare Dashboard and API were unavailable because of the disconnection of multiple, redundant fibre connections from one of our two core data centers.
Jetpack has had a search feature for a while. Flip it on, and it replaces your built-in WordPress search (which is functional, but not particularly good) with
GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available in Mexico, and we’ve also released a lot of exciting new features for sponsored developers, inspired by the community.
From GitHub Actions and magic URLs to gists, check out Jason Etcovich’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience.
The admin panel is one of the most powerful, flexible features that the Django web framework provides, combining instant off-the-shelf functionality with infinite customization. Using an example project based on a library inventory system, we’ll use the admin panel to learn about creating models and interacting with relational databases in Django.
During the spread of COVID-19, Cloudflare is offering free services to government agencies around the world to help them stay online and provide essential information to the public.
Tips for running user interviews and debriefs when your team's working remotely
With the npm acquisition complete, we’re ready to start the next chapter of npm and support the JavaScript community in a new way.
We try to find the path to those goals that our developers want to take. We want to create experiences through tooling that can make our developers feel productive, and we want to do our best to make shipping feel like a celebration and not a chore.
React provides a few built-in Hooks like useState. You can also create your own Hooks to reuse stateful behavior between different components. The example below shows a counter whose state is managed using the useState() hook. Each time you click on the button, we make use of setCount() to update the value of count by 1. In this article, Adeneye David Abiodun covers the rules of React Hooks and ho
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
PostGIS' functions can be used to trace down infected people and their contact with healthy individuals | GPS-Tracks | spatial data
In this article I walk through a set of refactorings from a real code base. This is not intended to demonstrate perfection, but it does represent reality.
A phishing campaign targeting our customers lures GitHub users into providing their credentials (including two-factor authentication codes). Learn more about the threat and what you can do to protect yourself.
Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26 and older.
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
Slack launched in 2014 with a PHP 5 backend. Along with several other companies, we switched to HHVM in 2016 because it ran our PHP code faster. We stayed with HHVM because it offers an entirely new language: Hack (searchable as Hacklang). Hack makes our developers faster by improving productivity through better tooling. Hack began as a superset of PHP, retaining its best…
If you are thinking about distracting visitors of your website with a fancy, glittering particle animation for a few moments, while some data is loaded in the background, all you need is some basic knowledge of CSS and JavaScript and a lightweight animation library such as anime.js. In the end, we should have the following result: Particle animations belong to the most impressive animations that e
Configure different Environment Variables for Production, Preview, and Development – right in the Dashboard.
Over the course of ten weeks, our team of three interns (two engineering, one product management) went from a problem statement to a new feature, which is still working in production for all Cloudflare customers.
Cloudflare now covers SSH, RDP and Minecraft, offering DDoS protection and increased network performance. Spectrum pay-as-you-go now available on all paid plans.
Safari 13.1 just shipped support for CSS Shadow Parts. That means the ::part() selector is now supported in Chrome, Edge, Opera, Safari, and Firefox. We’ll
I linked up Water.css not long ago as an interesting sort of CSS framework. No classes. No <h2 class="is-title">. You just use semantic HTML and get
CSS variables are *really* cool, and they're incredibly powerful when it comes to React! This tutorial shows how we can use them with React to create dynamic themes. We'll see how to get the most out of CSS-in-JS tools like styled-components, and how our mental frame around media queries has been wrong all along.
Why you should stop using client-side route redirects (like the `from` prop on React Router's Redirect component) and what you should do instead.
In this eighth issue of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explain how learning about American graphic designer and typographer Herb Lubalin has transformed his approach to typography on the web. How can we combine elements to develop powerful headers and calls to action? How do we use pre-formatted HTML text, and the text element in SVG for precise control over type? How can we optimise
As a large portion of Internet access shifted from office-focused areas, like city centers and business parks, towards more residential areas like suburbs and outlying towns, we wanted to find out just precisely how broad this geographical traffic migration was.
Over the past 6 months, volumetric DDoS attacks decreased by 82%. However volumetric attacks are not gone yet, still peaking as high as 418 Gbps. In this post, we cover the changing attack landscape and how Cloudflare adapts and evolves to keep the internet safe.
Prevent unwanted edits to your files by using the new file locking feature in the Dropbox API.
GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn and understand what React hooks are, the basic React Hooks that are available and also examples of how to write them for your React applications. In the process, you will also get to know about some additional hooks that were shipped with React 16.8 and also how to write your own custom React Hooks.
A member of the research team recounts his experience as an intern.
Nils Binder covers the ways:
Learn more about our new integration with Framer.
Learn about the legacy, architecture, and methods used to reduce 48k lines of code to 10 as we take a deep dive into GitHub’s Javascript SDK.
We want to thank everyone who participated in the GitHub Actions Hackathon. We had hundreds of submissions, so here’s our top picks.
Check out Lee Reilly’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience. You won’t believe tip number eight!
Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. It's free to download, so don't be shy. It's not short: 557 pages and 21 chapters! So what's it about? In short it's about "reliability through the lens of security." In long, Ana Oprea, one of the authors, gave a good overview. anaoprea: There are multiple questions about what this book is about, who
All search engines share the same purpose: to organize the web’s content and deliver the most relevant, useful results possible to search queries. How they achieve this has changed enormously since the days of Lycos and Ask Jeeves. Google alone uses more than 200 ranking factors, and those are just the ones we know about. Retrofitting search engine optimization only gets you so far. As metadata ge
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Here's a walk through of the rationale in more detail.
Starting today, you can get even more out of your 1.1.1.1 app. By adding Cloudflare Gateway’s secure DNS filtering to your 1.1.1.1 app, you can add a layer of security and block malicious domains flagged as phishing, command and control, or spam.
