What I Like About Craft CMS
Looking at the CMS scene today, there are upwards of 150 options to choose from — and that’s not including whatever home-grown custom alternatives people
Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS
Robin recently lamented the common complaint that CSS is frustrating. There are misconceptions about what it is and what it does. There are debates about what
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover
Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.
Vue.js: The Documentary
Hey how cool! A documentary about Vue! Good timing as it looks like VueConf is happening right now. (Reminder we have a site for conferences to tell you stuff
COVID-19 update: supporting our employees and community
Learn more about decisions we’ve made to protect our employees, our community, and our customers in response to COVID-19.
How Netflix uses Druid for Real-time Insights to Ensure a High-Quality Experience
Ensuring a consistently great Netflix experience while continuously pushing innovative technology updates is no easy feat. How can we be confident that updates are not harming our users? And that…
Mind those emoji if you're working at this place
When You Find A Good Idea, Look For A Better One — Smashing Magazine
Prototyping helps to formulate the main trajectory of the design by framing your mind around a continuous pursuit of better concepts. Any team that makes a prototyping integral part of their design is motivated to search for a better solution. Today, Tony Kim will introduce you to ProtoPie, a tool that will help you prototype in the best way possible to validate an idea and bring it to life.
When Bloom filters don't bloom
Last month finally I had an opportunity to use Bloom filters. I became fascinated with the promise of this data structure, but I quickly realized it had some drawbacks. This blog post is the tale of my brief love affair with Bloom filters.
Selectors Explained
Have you ever found yourself either writing a CSS selector that winds up looking confusing as heck, or seen one while reading through someone's code? That
Unfortunately, clip-path: path() is Still a No-Go
I was extremely excited when I first heard that clip-path: path() was coming to Firefox. Just imagine being able to easily code a breathing box like the one
The Elephant in the Architecture
We, and our colleagues, are often called on to perform architectural assessments for our clients. When we do this, the architects involved with these systems will talk about the performance of these systems, how resilient they are to faults, and how they are designed to evolve to easily support new capabilities. The elephant that rarely comes up, however, is how different systems contribute to bus
The Perils of Hydration
A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized web apps.
Stop using isLoading booleans
Why using a status enum (or even better: a **state machine**) will help your app stay bug free
Project LightSpeed: Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, and simpler messaging app
We are excited to begin rolling out the new version of Messenger on iOS. To make the Messenger iOS app faster, smaller, and simpler, we rebuilt the architecture and rewrote the entire codebase, which is an incredibly rare undertaking and involved engineers from across the company. Compared with the previous iOS version, this new Messenger […]
Pondering the reasons why you should work somewhere
Inspired Design Decisions With Neville Brody: Design Cannot Remain Neutral — Smashing Magazine
In this sixth instalment of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explore how British art director Neville Brody and in particular his work on The Face Magazine inspires his designs for the web. How do we use blend modes to add depth to our designs? How do we use vertical text for impact? How can we use clipping paths to bring in character and energy to a design? In this article, Andrew Clar
Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers
Looking back at this week's posts on the design, specifications, and performance of Cloudflare’s Gen X servers using AMD CPUs. Every server can run every service. This architectural decision has helped us achieve higher efficiency across the Cloudflare network.
The growth of command line options, 1979-Present
Tony Jebara: VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning
Mornings start with a wake-up call from my three young children. I get them fed, dressed and ready for school. But first, I need an espresso – that’s absolutely necessary if I’m going to get anything done! I don’t really go online until I’ve dropped off the kids around 8.15am, then I hop on the subway and head downtown, checking my email and Slack messages en route.
What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of , our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via the feedback we received. So, I wanted to take this opportunity to further explain what we’re trying to do with Backstage — and more importantly, what we want to give to the greater engineering community beyond Spotify.
Per Wendin: Head of Patents
I get up, have breakfast and am ready to leave the house by 7.30 am. Every day, I cycle the 12km to and from the office—it’s mostly on safe, car-free bike tracks, and I love having the time to clear my head and think freely. It doesn’t even matter what the weather’s like—I’ll cycle, rain or shine.
Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch
This week, we launched our ! Third-party apps can now connect to Spotify and manage a user’s podcast library, search our podcast catalog, or fetch detailed information about podcast shows and episodes.
Going Beyond Black History Month
Around this time of year in the United States, African-Americans are often tasked with explaining why we spend 28 (or in the case of leap year 29) days celebrating the contributions our ancestors made to this country.
HTML: The Inaccessible Parts
<input type="number">, <input type="date">, <input type="search">, <select multiple>, <progress>, <meter>,
No more pink mustache
Embrace The Possibilities (March 2020 Wallpapers) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of wallpapers is for you. We embarked on this monthly wallpapers journey more than nine years ago and we’re very thankful for everyone who submits their artworks to it each month anew. Today, designed by artists and designers from across the globe, Cosima Mielke brings you versions with and without a calendar for March 2020.
Securing Memory at EPYC Scale
At Cloudflare, we encrypt data both in transit (on the network) and at rest (on the disk). Both practices address some of the most common vectors used to exfiltrate information and these measures serve to protect sensitive data from attackers but, what about data currently in use?
How to Customize the WooCommerce Cart Page on a WordPress Site
A standard e-commerce site has a few common pages. There are product pages, shop pages that list products, and let’s not forget pages for the user account,
A Follow-Up to PHP Templating
Not long ago, I posted about PHP templating in just PHP (which is basically HEREDOC syntax). I'm literally using that technique for some super basic
Where to Learn WordPress Theme Development
Over a decade ago, I did a little three-part video series on Designing for WordPress. Then I did other series with the same spirit, like videocasting the
February service disruptions
Recently, we’ve had multiple service interruptions on GitHub.com. We know how important reliability of our service is for your projects and teams. We take this responsibility very seriously and apologize…
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 28th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: The Smithsonian has million of pieces of delicious open access content. I ate up this 3D representation of the 1903 Wright Flyer. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff won't happen. That's how important you are to the fate of the world. Need to understand the cloud? Know someone who does? I wrote Explain the Cloud Lik
Where Does SEO Belong In Your Web Design Process? — Smashing Magazine
The word “SEO” holds a lot of weight. We know how critical it is to the success of a website and, yet, it often becomes one of those things that’s left until the very end of a web design project to deal with. Or, worse, it’s pushed onto one person’s plate who likely isn’t capable of doing all that needs to be done. SEO should be a team sport — and that’s what today’s post is all about.
Upcoming Web Design Conferences (Jan 2025 - Dec 2025) — Smashing Magazine
Conferences are about gathering information and knowledge but are also opportunities to meet and learn from other like-minded folks in the web design community. Plus, you’ll be exposed to a lot of new information, which will help you advance in your career. Let’s dive into our list for January to December. Jan Constantin will keep updating this list, so make sure to bookmark this page and check it
Gen X Performance Tuning
We have partnered with AMD to get the best performance out of this processor and today, we are highlighting our tuning efforts that led to additional performance across our entire Gen X fleet of servers powered by the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7642.
Why is CSS Frustrating?
Here’s a great thread by Kevin Powell that's making the rounds. He believes so many folks see CSS as a frustrating and annoying language:
When CSS Blocks
Tim Kadlec:
Instant GraphQL Backend with Fine-grained Security Using FaunaDB
GraphQL is becoming popular and developers are constantly looking for frameworks that make it easy to set up a fast, secure and scalable GraphQL API. In this
Reflections on Config, our first user conference
When we first set out to organize a user conference, our goal was to create a space to have meaningful conversations. Here is a look at some key themes that emerged from those conversations.
Coping with Covid-19
What we've learned so far from dealing with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak
We’re challenging you to create your very own GitHub Actions
Starting March 5, we’re hosting an online GitHub Actions Hackathon challenging you to create original Actions.
How To Build A Music Manager With Nuxt.js And Express.js — Smashing Magazine
Whenever a web client uploads a file to a server, it is generally submitted through a form and encoded as multipart/form-data. Multer is a middleware for Express.js and Node.js that makes it easy to handle this so-called multipart/form-data whenever your users upload files. In this article, Deve Rathore introduces how Multer streamlines the process of handling file uploads. It also introduces how
Introducing Secrets and Environment Variables to Cloudflare Workers
Today we’re releasing one of the most requested Workers features: support for secrets and environment variables through the Wrangler CLI and Workers Dashboard.
Impact of Cache Locality
Our Gen X servers process more requests per second per core than our previous fleet. The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC 7642 processor’s large L3 cache minimizes L3 cache misses, and the time-savings add up quickly.
What Does A Foldable Web Actually Mean? — Smashing Magazine
Foldable devices have brought with them talk of a ‘foldable web,’ and the idea that long-standing web conventions may be on the verge of a serious shakeup. Is it all hype, or is it time to get flexible? The ‘foldable web’ will bring with it new challenges, new opportunities, and, in all likelihood, new syntax. The web could be in for its biggest shakeup since the smartphone. Users and coders alike
An EPYC trip to Rome: AMD is Cloudflare's 10th-generation Edge server CPU
As we looked at production ready systems to power our Gen X solution, we’re moving on from Gen 9's 48-core setup of dual socket Intel Xeon Platinum 6162's to a 48-core single socket AMD EPYC 7642.
Visualizing OSM data in QGIS
Visualizing OSM datasets with QGIS. Generation of some nice maps on the client | Map Styling in QGIS | Adding Spatial data
Your new web notifications experience is here
Quickly find and take action on your notifications with the new notifications experience on GitHub.com
Over 100 partners to help you succeed with the GitHub Student Developer Pack
The GitHub Student Developer Pack delivers the best real-world developer tools and training from over 100 partner companies.
Accelerating innovations in infrastructure and advancing global connectivity with our partners
High-quality internet access opens new opportunities to make yourself heard, connect with the people and communities you care about, and build new businesses. It’s also good for industries and businesses of all kinds, including Facebook. The latest edition of our Inclusive Internet Index shows progress on bringing broadband access to more people, but the rate […]
Creating Native Components That Accept React Native Subviews - Shopify
This guide will show you how to make a native component that provides bottom sheet functionality to React Native and renders React views inside.
Smashing Podcast Episode 10 With Trine Falbe And Martin Michael Frederiksen: What Is Ethical Design? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Ethical Design. What does it mean for a design to be ethical, and how do we make improvements in our own projects? Drew McLellan speaks to Trine Falbe and Martin Michael Frederiksen to find out.
Seamless remote work with Cloudflare for Teams
The novel coronavirus is actively changing how organizations work in real-time. According to Fortune, the virus has led to the “world’s largest work-from-home experiment.” As the epidemic crosses borders, employees are staying home and putting new stress on how companies manage remote work.
Cloudflare’s Gen X: Servers for an Accelerated Future
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently.
Pages for Likes
I posted about parsing an RSS feed in JavaScript the other day. I also posted about my RSS setup talking about how Feedbin is at the heart of it.
Gutenberging
It's been over a year since the big WordPress launch of Gutenberg, the new editor. It seems to me most of the controversy around it has died down. There has
Socratic vs. Euclidean Forms of API Documentation - High Scalability -
I was emailing a service about their documentation and while their doc was good, about one particularly tricky concept they told me that once you use it for a while, that’s when you’ll understand it. In other words: you’ll only understand it after you understand it. I didn’t like that response. I want documentation that takes me from an unproductive newbie to a somewhat functioning journeyperson.
Persisting React State in localStorage
A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this!
Make Your Test Fail
If you're not careful you can write a test that's worse than having no tests at all