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2,167 articles published in 2020.

Security — International Women’s Day 2020: Building a Modern Security Team

International Women’s Day 2020: Building a Modern Security Team

When we started at Cloudflare in the summer of 2018, we joined a small security team intent on helping it grow quickly. Cloudflare was already a successful “unicorn” startup and its profile was changing fast, providing cyber security protection for millions of Internet-facing properties.

SJSusan, Joe SullivanSusan, Joe Sullivan·March 6, 2020Security
Frontend — Currying in CSS

Currying in CSS

Funny timing on this I was just looking at the website for Utopia (which is a responsive type project which I hate to admit I don't fully understand) and I

CCChris Coyier·March 6, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Avoid Keyboard Event-Related Bugs In Browser-Based Transliteration — Smashing Magazine

Avoid Keyboard Event-Related Bugs In Browser-Based Transliteration — Smashing Magazine

Transliteration is a popular way to input non-English characters using an English keyboard. The typical method of implementing this is via keyboard event capturing but there’s no uniform support from mobile browsers. In this article, Sandamal Siripathi explains a new method to eliminate such browser-related problems when developing web apps that use transliteration.

SSSandamal SiripathiSandamal Siripathi·March 6, 2020Frontend
Engineering — The History of the URL

The History of the URL

January 11th, 1982, 22 computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email).

ZBZack BloomZack Bloom·March 5, 2020Engineering
Engineering — The Slideout Footer

The Slideout Footer

A fascinating new site called The Markup just launched. Tagline: Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech. Great work from Upstatement. The

CCChris Coyier·March 5, 2020Engineering
SRE & Ops — Preventing performance regressions with Health Compass and Incident Tracker

Preventing performance regressions with Health Compass and Incident Tracker

Facebook’s codebase changes frequently each day as engineers develop new features and optimizations for our apps. If not handled properly, each of these changes could potentially regress performance for billions of people around the world. At each step in the development process, we apply a suite of automated regression detection tools to mitigate these risks […]

MEMeta Engineering·March 5, 2020SRE & Ops
Frontend — Introducing Alpine.js: A Tiny JavaScript Framework — Smashing Magazine

Introducing Alpine.js: A Tiny JavaScript Framework — Smashing Magazine

Ever built a website and reached for jQuery, Bootstrap, Vue.js or React to acheive some basic user interaction? Alpine.js is a fraction of the size of these frameworks because it involves no build steps and provides all of the tools you need to build a basic user interface. Today, Phil Smith is going to take a closer look at Alpine.js and how it can replace JQuery or larger JavaScript libraries to

PSPhil SmithPhil Smith·March 5, 2020Frontend
Frontend — What React Does (and Doesn't Do)

What React Does (and Doesn't Do)

With a name as big as React, it's bound to cause some Stream-Crossing Confusion, as I like to call it. How do you center a <div> in React? Dave Ceddia:

CCChris Coyier·March 4, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Why Are We Talking About CSS4? — Smashing Magazine

Why Are We Talking About CSS4? — Smashing Magazine

Around the web and within the CSS Working Group, there has been some discussion about whether we should specify a version of CSS — perhaps naming it CSS4. In this article, Rachel Andrew rounds up some of the pros and cons of doing so, and asks for your feedback on the suggestion.

RARachel AndrewRachel Andrew·March 4, 2020Frontend
Security — Addressing the Web’s Client-Side Security Challenge

Addressing the Web’s Client-Side Security Challenge

Modern web architecture relies heavily on JavaScript and enabling third-party code to make client-side network requests. These innovations are built on client-heavy frameworks such as Angular, Ember, React, and Backbone that leverage the processing power of the browser

SBSwapnil BhalodeSwapnil Bhalode·March 3, 2020Security
Networking — RPKI and the RTR protocol

RPKI and the RTR protocol

Today’s Internet requires stronger protection within its core routing system and as we have already said: it's high time to stop BGP route leaks and hijacks by deploying operationally-excellent RPKI!

MLMartin LevyMartin Levy·March 3, 2020Networking