Day 8: Start with something that works
Day 8: Start with something that works
FioSynth: A representative I/O benchmark and data visualizer for data center workloads
What it is: FioSynth is a benchmark tool used to automate the execution of storage workload suites and to parse results. It contains a base set of block level storage workloads, synthesized from production I/O traces, that simulate a diverse range of Facebook production services. It is useful for predicting how a storage device will […]
This message cannot be pasted into the Signal app
Standardizing Select And Beyond: The Past, Present And Future Of Native HTML Form Controls — Smashing Magazine
Working with native HTML Form Controls has been such a pain point for web developers, from styling to extending them, the limitations are so great that countless dev hours have been spent recreating them. But why are form controls so difficult to work with? In this article, Stephanie dives into the past by going back to the beginning of HTML and tracing the evolution of form controls through to th
Anchoring Trust: A Hardware Secure Boot Story
As a security company, we pride ourselves on finding innovative ways to protect our platform to, in turn, protect the data of our customers. Part of this approach is implementing progressive methods in protecting our hardware at scale.
Copyediting with Semantic HTML
Tracking changes is a quintessential copyediting feature for comparing versions of content. While we’re used to tracking changes in a word processing
Jetpack Backup
It's no secret that CSS-Tricks is a WordPress site. And as such, we like to keep things WordPress-y, like enabling the block editor and creating some custom
Introducing split diffs in GitHub Desktop
The latest version of GitHub Desktop includes split diffs, PRs with Actions status, more control over stashing, and discarding changes from files.
Feedback: UIs, Mac pains, hardware, teaching and octal
Making Sense Of TypeScript, In 50 Lessons — Smashing Magazine
Meet our new practical guide on everything you need to know about TypeScript, its type system, and all its benefits in 50 lessons. Jump to table of contents and get the book right away.
Smashing Podcast Episode 29 With Leslie Cohn-Wein: How Does Netlify Dogfood The Jamstack? — Smashing Magazine
We’re asking what it looks like to dogfood the Jamstack at Netlify. Can you deploy an entire app to a CDN? Drew McLellan talks to Netlify Staff Engineer Leslie Cohn-Wein to find out.
Workers KV - free to try, with increased limits!
Announcing a Free Tier for Workers KV that opens up global, low-latency data storage to every developer on the Workers platform.
When trusted relationships are formed, everyone wins!
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how building trusted relationships resulted in an improved security posture and better solution for one of our customers.
CSS Background Patterns
Nice little tool from Jim Raptis: CSS Background Patterns. A bunch of easy-to-customize and copy-and-paste backgrounds that use hard stop CSS gradients to
New Sample: Image Flipping Extension
Learn to build your first Dropbox Extension using sample code in node.js
Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement now merged
As part of GitHub’s commitment to developers, we open source the policies that govern our platform and welcome feedback at any time in our site-policy repository. When we make material…
Release Radar
We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for November 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…
Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
Day 5: drawing lots of faces with sketch-rnn
Day 5: drawing lots of faces with sketch-rnn
Creating A Continuous Integration Test Workflow Using GitHub Actions — Smashing Magazine
The convention when contributing to projects on version control platforms is that there is the main branch containing the functional codebase. Then, there are other branches in which several developers can work on copies of the main to either add a new feature, fix a bug, and so on. If there is any error, it can easily be traced and fixed before integrating the changes into the main branch. It can
How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
SAD DNS Explained
Researchers from UC Riverside and Tsinghua University found a new way to revive a decade-old DNS cache poisoning attack. Read our deep dive into how the SAD DNS attack on DNS resolvers works, how we protect against this attack in 1.1.1.1, and what the future holds for DNS cache poisoning attacks.
Automated Origin CA for Kubernetes
Today we're releasing origin-ca-issuer, an extension to cert-manager integrating with Cloudflare Origin CA to easily create and renew certificates for your account's domains.
What’s New In Vue 3? — Smashing Magazine
Vue 3 comes with a lot of interesting new features and changes to some of the existing ones that are aimed at making development with the framework a lot easier and maintainable. In this article, we’re going to take a look at some of these new features and how to get started with them. We’re also going be taking a look at some of the changes done to the existing features.
UK Black History Month at Cloudflare
Cloudflare celebrated UK Black History Month remotely!
How Film School Helped Me Make Better User Experiences
Recently, I finished a sixty-day sprint where I posted hand-coded zombie themed CSS animation every day. I learned a lot, but it also took me back to film
Super simple start to Firebase functions
The simplest getting started guide for Firebase Cloud functions
From The Experts: Global Digital Accessibility Developments During COVID-19 — Smashing Magazine
Robin Christopherson MBE, Head of Digital Inclusion at UK tech experts AbilityNet, has been hosting a series of monthly webinars with senior accessibility guests from global brands such as Microsoft and ATOS, and UK giants like Barclays and Sainsbury’s. They’re talking COVID, the challenges and opportunities the crisis brings, agile adjustments, digital inclusion and much, much more. Want food for
My internship: Brotli compression using a reduced dictionary
Using the brotli dictionary to improve compression of web content without sacrificing performance.
Tech Leaders on the Future of Remote Work
Dozens of top leaders and thinkers from the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for a series of fireside chats commemorating Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Here are some of the highlights.
My WordPress Comments Wishlist
A built-in commenting system is one of the reasons people reach for WordPress (and often stay there long-term). While I do think having a comment system is
Libraries for SVG Drawing Animations
In 2013, Jake Archibald introduced this cool trick of animating an SVG path to look like it’s drawing itself. It’s 2020 now, and the trick is still popular.
The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas
Earlier this year I wrote a bit about autogrowing textareas and inputs. The idea was to make a <textarea> more like a <div> so it expands in
Veterans Day spotlight: Finding careers and camaraderie through code
Today in America, it’s Veterans Day, a federal holiday to honor those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. As a veteran myself, I know that honoring veterans is…
Day 3: an infinitely tall fridge
Day 3: an infinitely tall fridge
Super simple start to Netlify functions
Easily create server code without worrying about managing servers yourself
Building a ubiquitous shared infrastructure using Twine
What the research is: Twine is our homegrown cluster management system, which has been running in production for the past decade. A cluster management system allocates workloads to machines and manages the life cycle of machines, containers, and workloads. Kubernetes is a prominent example of an open source cluster management system. Twine has helped convert […]
Authenticating React Apps With Auth0 — Smashing Magazine
An important aspect of app development is ensuring that only verified users have access to our apps. This can be tedious and costly do, especially when you add alternative methods of logging in outside emails and passwords. Auth0 is a service that provides authentication functionalities to developers out of the box. In this article, we’ll learn how to authenticate our React apps using Auth0. We wi
What is an Integrated Email Security solution? And is it right for your organization?
Gartner has named Area 1 Security as a Representative Vendor for IESS. We believe, Area 1 Security, as an IESS, provides the core functionalities of a SEG, but has the advantage of being very quick and easy to deploy, without requiring changes to the email flow at the gateway.
Bienvenue Cloudflare France! Why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in France
I am incredibly excited to announce that I have joined Cloudflare as its Head of France to help build a better Internet and expand the company’s growing customer base in France. This is an important milestone for Cloudflare as we continue to grow our presence in Europe.
The Raven Technique: One Step Closer to Container Queries
For the millionth time: We need container queries in CSS! And guess what, it looks like we're heading in that direction.
ARIA in CSS
Jeremey reacting to Sara's tweet, about using selectors instead of classes when the styling you are applying is directly related to the ARIA state.
Netlify Background Functions
As quickly as I can:
Dealing with streaming replication conflicts in PostgreSQL
Replication conflicts can cause problems with streaming replication. This article tells you what they are and how to deal with them.
How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
Ubuntu 20.04 local privilege escalation using vulnerabilities in gdm3 and accountsservice (CVE-2020-16125, CVE-2020-16126, CVE-2020-16127)
Day 2: Rails associations & dragging divs around
Day 2: Rails associations & dragging divs around
Best Practices For E-Commerce UI Design — Smashing Magazine
The goal of e-commerce design is to create interfaces that won’t get in the way of the overall shopping experience. In this post, Suzanne Scacca is going to look at three key parts of a digital store and show you what you can do to design each to help customers more quickly and effortlessly get to the checkout stage.
Phishing campaign threatens job security, drops Bazar and Buer Malware
A phishing campaign is threatening targets with false claims of employment termination. The goal of the attacker is to intimidate employees into clicking on a link that will ultimately lead to Bazar or Buer malware infections by way of Trickbot.
How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned
Totally agree with David, on CSS needing a selector to know if a position: sticky; element is doing its sticky thing or not.
JavaScript Operator Lookup
Okay, this is extremely neat: Josh Comeau made this great site called Operator Lookup that explains how JavaScript operators work. There are some code
A Continuous Integration and Deployment Setup with CircleCI and Coveralls
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are crucial development practices, especially for teams. Every project is prone to error,
Day 1: a confusing Rails error message
Day 1: a confusing Rails error message
A Dive Into React And Three.js Using react-three-fiber — Smashing Magazine
`react-three-fiber` is a powerful Three.js renderer that helps render 3D models and animations for React and its native applications. Today, Fortune Ikechi is going to show you how to configure and use react-three-fiber for building and displaying 3D models and animations in React and React Native applications. By building our 3D ludo dice box, you’ll learn about the basics of Three.js alongside i
Announcing Spectrum DDoS Analytics and DDoS Insights & Trends
We’re excited to announce the expansion of the Network Analytics dashboard to Spectrum customers on the Enterprise plan. Additionally, this announcement introduces two major dashboard improvements for easier reporting and investigation.
A new way I'm getting feedback on my zines: beta readers!
A new way I'm getting feedback on my zines: beta readers!
The Internet is Getting Safer: Fall 2020 RPKI Update
The cap of two hundred thousand routing cryptographic records was recently passed. We thought it was time for an update on a major year for RPKI.
How to Create a Commenting Engine with Next.js and Sanity
One of the arguments against the Jamstack approach for building websites is that developing features gets complex and often requires a number of other
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 6th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Hey, no power outages this week, so it's finally HighScalability time! Stunning: Tycho Crater Region with Colours by Alain Paillou Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one with the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon it has 189 mostly 5 star reviews. Here's a 100% lact
Building Serverless Front-End Applications Using Google Cloud Platform — Smashing Magazine
The use of serverless applications by developers to handle the business logic of their applications in on the high increase, but how does the Google Cloud — a major service provider within the public cloud — allow developers to manage serverless applications? In this article, you will learn what serverless applications are, how they are used on the Google Cloud, and also scenarios in which they ca
ClickHouse Capacity Estimation Framework
We use ClickHouse widely at Cloudflare. It helps us with our internal analytics workload, bot management, customer dashboards, and many other systems.
