Quick LocalStorage Usage in Vue
localStorage can be an incredibly useful tool in creating experiences for applications, extensions, documentation, and a variety of use cases. I've personally
I'm doing another Recurse Center batch!
I'm doing another Recurse Center batch!
Data Visualization With ApexCharts — Smashing Magazine
In this article, you will be exposed to ApexCharts and to the different types and variants of charts it provides. Along the way, we’ll build several types of charts and learn how we can customize the appearance of our charts. By the end of the article, you will be able to integrate different types and variants of chats in your applications with ApexCharts.
BPF binaries: BTF, CO-RE, and the future of BPF perf tools
This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
Here's a fun page coming from secretGeek.net. You don't normally think "fun" with brutalist minimalism but the CSS trickery that makes it work on this page is
HelloSign API Webinar for the UK, Germany, and France
We’re hosting webinars on the HelloSign API in the UK, Germany, and France. Register today and come learn about the HelloSign API.
GitHub Availability Report: October 2020
In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.
Internationalization And Localization For Static Sites — Smashing Magazine
Internationalization and localization is more than just writing your content in multiple languages. You need a strategy to determine what localization to send, and code to do it. You need to be able to support not just different languages, but different regions with the same language. Your UI needs to be responsive, not just to screen size, but to different languages and writing modes. Your conten
Vercel Analytics for Gatsby
Starting today, Vercel Analytics is available for Gatsby projects – without any configuration.
Looking Ahead: Five Opportunities on The Horizon According to Tech Leaders
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.
What Can Web Designers Do With Their Unused Designs? — Smashing Magazine
Do you have a hard time throwing away mockups, logos and other content you’ve created for clients? The good news is that you don’t have to see rejected or unused designs as a sign of failure or waste. You can actually repurpose them and give them new life on other projects, for other customers, and even within your own business. I’ll explain four ways to do this in this post.
Smashing Podcast Episode 28 With David Darnes: What Is Eleventy? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Eleventy. What is it and how does it fit into your Jamstack workflow? I spoke to David Darnes to find out.
Commit your vote on election day!
Closing that priority issue you’re working on can wait—put down your keyboard and vote! Millions of you already have, and your vote in national and local elections may just impact…
ShiftLeft on Refactoring a Live SaaS Environment - High Scalability -
This is guest a post by Preetam Jinka, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ShiftLeft. Originally published here. ShiftLeft NextGen Static Analysis (NG SAST) is a software-as-a-service static analysis solution that allows developers to scan every pull request for security issues. Earlier this year we released Secrets, Security Insights, and a v4 API. Secrets and Security Insights are two new types of
Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my implementation looking near-pixel-perfect.
Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Everyone slows to a crawl, sometimes for a minor issue or sometimes for no reason at all. As…
Native CSS Masonry Layout In CSS Grid — Smashing Magazine
There is now a specification for native CSS masonry layout, as part of the Grid Layout spec. In this article, Rachel Andrew will explain the draft spec, with examples that you can try out in Firefox Nightly. While this is a feature you won’t be able to use in production right now, your feedback would be valuable to help make sure it serves the requirements that you have for this kind of layout. So
GitHub Game Off 2020 theme announcement
The theme for this year’s Game Off is MOONSHOT. moonshot – noun an extremely ambitious and innovative project the act of launching a spacecraft to the moon a hit or…
Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 2)
So you’ve read of our two-part series about the new Experimentation Platform we’ve built at Spotify, and now know why we decided to invest in a new platform. In Part II, you’ll get a more detailed look at how we assigned users to experiments, how we analyze results and ensure test integrity.
It’s All Just Wiggly Air: Building Infrastructure to Support Audio Research
TL;DR — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. Based on Python and Apache Beam, helps our teams process Spotify’s massive catalog of music and podcasts, faster and more efficiently. We think Klio’s — and its ability to let anyone leverage modern cloud infrastructure and tooling — has the potential to unlock new possibilities in media and ML research
The Serverlist: Serverless Wasm AI, Building Automatic Platform Optimizations, and more!
Check out our twenty-first 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.
Be Kind, Be Curious (November 2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Give your desktop a makeover with this new collection of wallpapers. Designed by the community for the community, the wallpapers come in versions with and without a calendar for November 2020. Since so many beautiful and inspiring designs have seen the light of day as a part of this ongoing series, we browsed through our archives on the look for November goodies from the past. You’ll find a select
Unwrap the SERVFAIL
We recently released a new version of Cloudflare Resolver, which adds a piece of information called “Extended DNS Errors” (EDE) along with the response code under certain circumstances. This will be helpful in tracing DNS resolution errors and figure out what went wrong behind the scenes.
compute cuter
Get that desk more cuter, fam. Amy (@sailorhg) has this perfectly cute minisite with assorted desktop backgrounds, fonts, editor themes, keyboard stuff, and
Little Things on My Personal Site
I updated my personal website the other day. Always a fun project since it's one of the few where it's 100% just me. It's my own personal playground with no
13 ghoulish games to play, hack and slash this weekend 👻
WARNING: This post contains zombies, werewolves, extra dimensional beings, mummies, and more! Proceed at your own risk. Trick or treat yourself to some fangtastic Halloween-themed games this weekend. These were…
The Principles Of Visual Communication — Smashing Magazine
We’re taught to communicate with words. We write essays, prepare speeches, and take written notes. But words aren’t always the best option for conveying information and ideas. Sometimes the best way to tell stories is through thoughtfully crafted visuals, not long paragraphs of text. Visual storytelling is the process of conveying ideas using things you can see. In this article, Elizabeth Lin will
Introducing Bot Analytics
Nearly 40% of Internet traffic is automated. Today, Cloudflare is taking its Bot Management product to new heights with the release of Bot Analytics.
PostgreSQL clustering: vip-manager
vip-manager is a simple to use tool to handle service IPs in a PostgreSQL Patroni cluster | PostgreSQL High Availability Cluster
GitHub Action Hero: Eyal Posener and “Go Action”
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Getting started with DevOps automation
This is the second post in our series on DevOps fundamentals. For a guide to what DevOps is and answers to common DevOps myths check out part one. What role…
Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster
Using deferred compliance in GitHub’s CI process to improve developer productivity.
Building GitHub: introduction
An introduction to our blog series on GitHub’s investments in technical excellence.
How to Introduce Composite Primary Keys in Rails - Shopify
One line of code can 5x your Rails application performance. What if you could make a small change to your database design that would unlock massively more efficient data access? At Shopify, we dusted off some old database principles and did exactly that with the primary Rails application.
How To Build A GraphQL Server Using Next.js API Routes — Smashing Magazine
With this guide, Ibrahima Ndaw will teach you the basics of Next.js API Routes. He will start by explaining what they are and why API Routes are useful compared to REST or GraphQL APIs. Then, he will guide you through a step by step tutorial on how to build your very first GraphQL server with Next.js and the Github API. If you want to extend your React or Next.js skills to the server-side and be a
Comparing Static Site Generator Build Times
There are so many static site generators (SSGs). It’s overwhelming trying to decide where to start. While an abundance of helpful articles may help wade
Building with Dropbox Webinar
Join our webinar to learn about Dropbox developer tools, meet our Developer Evangelists, and get started building with the Dropbox API.
Bridging design and code with Variants
Today we're launching Variants and updates to the Inspect panel to power up your design system
A few things I've learned about email marketing
A few things I've learned about email marketing
Super Simple Start to css variables
How to get started using css variables
How We Run Online Workshops — Smashing Magazine
Many companies had to struggle in one way or another in the last couple of months. We had to get creative, and we had to rethink our conferences and workshops altogether. In this article, CEO and co-founder Vitaly Friedman shares how Smashing runs online workshops and online conferences these days, and the lessons learned along the way.
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Diving into /proc/[pid]/mem
A few months ago, after reading about Cloudflare doubling its intern class, I quickly dusted off my CV and applied for an internship. Long story short: now, a couple of months later, I found myself staring at Linux kernel code and adding a pretty cool feature to gVisor.
Anima 4.0: Go Straight From Design to React in the Design Handoff
Imagine this scenario: You get an email from the design team. It contains a link to a high-fidelity prototype of a React app they want you to build. You click
PostgreSQL: Foreign keys and insertion order in SQL
Foreign keys will introduce some issues which have to be considered when writing applications. If a foreign key is in place the inseration order starts to matter.
Our counterintuitive fix for Android path normalization
Behind the feature: The hidden challenges of autosave
The technical challenges of updating our autosave system
Should social media dampen uncertain stories?
When a news story of dubious provenance appears, should social media use a temporary block to slow its spread?
Build a game this November with GitHub Game Off
Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month…
2020 GitHub Universe Micro-Mentoring Application
We’re thrilled to announce an opportunity to connect with employees at GitHub during GitHub Universe. This year, Universe will take place virtually December 8-10 and we’d love to “see” you…
Code Scanning a GitHub Repository using GitHub Advanced Security within an Azure DevOps Pipeline
In this blog post we demonstrate how to integrate the GitHub Advanced Security code scanning capability into our Azure DevOps Pipelines. We provide code snippets and examples that can guide you or your developers working to integrate Code Scanning into any 3rd Party CI tool.
Exploiting a textbook use-after-free security vulnerability in Chrome
In this post I’ll give details about how to exploit CVE-2020-6449, a use-after-free (UAF) in the WebAudio module of Chrome that I discovered in March 2020. I’ll give an outline of the general strategy to exploit this type of UAF to achieve a sandboxed RCE in Chrome by a single click (and perhaps a 2 minute wait) on a malicious website.
Bulldozer: Batch Data Moving from Data Warehouse to Online Key-Value Stores
Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics…
Sharp tools for emergencies and the --clowntown flag
Authentication In Vue.js — Smashing Magazine
Every web application that handles user-specific data needs to implement authentication. Knowing how to do this is important for Vue developers, and that’s what this article aims to shed the spotlight on. Today, Precious Ndubueze brings you a tutorial that will prove to be useful for beginner developers who want to learn about authentication in Vue. In order to be able to follow along, you’ll need
European payment methods available worldwide in minutes, not months
Stripe businesses around the world can accept payments from more European buyers in minutes.
Road to gRPC
Cloudflare launched support for gRPC during our 2020 Birthday Week. In this post, we’ll do a deep-dive into the technical details of how we implemented support.
WordPress and Jamstack
I recently moderated a panel at Netlify's virtual Jamstack Conf that included Netlify CEO Matt Biilman and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg. The whole thing
ninja: a simple way to do builds
ninja: a simple way to do builds
Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
Introducing Framer Motion — Smashing Magazine
Animations, when done right, are powerful. However, creating eye-catching animations with CSS can be tricky. In comes Framer Motion. With Framer Motion, you don’t need to be a CSS expert to make beautiful animations. Framer Motion provides us with production-ready animations and a low-level API we can interact with to integrate these animations into our applications.