2,138 articles published in 2020.
Today we are launching a new service, Cloudflare Radar, that shines a light on the Internet’s patterns. Our goal is to help build a better Internet and we want to do this by exposing insights, threats and trends based on the aggregated data that we have.
A look at a new DNS resource record intended to speed-up negotiation of HTTP security and performance features and how it will help make the web faster.
Takeaways from Config Europe
Earlier this month we were thrilled to welcome the OpenJDK Community to GitHub. The communities migration effort, codenamed Project ‘Skara’, brought JDK 16 main-line development into GitHub. The JDK project is at the…
Now available, code scanning is a developer-first, GitHub-native approach to easily find security vulnerabilities before they reach production.
Ever wondered what all those Google Analytics code snippets are for and why your marketing team regularly asks you to add a new one? For most web developers, their involvement with Google Analytics ends with just installing the base code for pageviews. In this article, Clara Buenconsejo will look at 5 features in Google Analytics that can help web developers and designers in making a better user e
Get ready for autumn and the upcoming Halloween season with beautiful and inspiring wallpapers. Created by the community for the community, the wallpapers in this post all come in versions with and without a calendar, so no matter if you want to count down the days to a big deadline or stick with your favorite design after the month has ended, we’ve got you covered. Speaking of favorites: As a lit
We’re announcing a brand new, privacy-first analytics service that’s open to everyone — even if they're not already a Cloudflare customer. And if you're a Cloudflare customer, we've enhanced our analytics to make them even more powerful than before.
We're partnering with the Google Chrome team to bring Web Vitals measurements into Browser Insights. Web Vitals are a new set of metrics to help web developers and website owners measure and understand load time, responsiveness, and visual stability.
Cloudflare’s analytics products help customers answer questions about their traffic by analyzing the mind-boggling, ever-increasing number of events (HTTP requests, Workers requests, Spectrum events) logged by Cloudflare products every day.
Amber Wilson on making bookmarklets to help yo-self. She shows off one that injects an accessibility script — I like this approach, as it means you don't have
I've bookmarked some icon sets lately, partly because I can never find a nice set when I need to. I figured I'd even go the extra mile here and blog them so I
A deep-dive into font fallback
Unit testing has become an integral part of the software development process. It is the level of testing at which the components of the software are tested. In this article, Fortune Ikechi will show you the core principles of testing, explore various libraries for testing an application, and see how to test units (or components) of a React Native application. By working with a React Native applica
Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time collaboration between clients.
This week marks Cloudflare’s 10th birthday, and we’re excited to continue our annual tradition of launching an array of products designed to help give back to the Internet. (Check back here each morning for the latest!)
Today, we are excited to launch Cron Triggers to the Cloudflare Workers serverless compute platform. We’ve heard the developer feedback, and we want to give our users the ability to run a given Worker on a scheduled basis.
In my research, I've found there are four approaches to Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript. Which methods should I use? Which one is "the best" way? Here I'll present my findings along with information that may help you decide which is right for you.
A/B tests are not the only tool to understand causality: quasi-experiments and counterfactuals are powerful tools for causal inference if used right.
Digital content (eBooks, stock media and courses) can easily be advertised and sold through online marketplaces. But your clients won’t make as much money that way and really can’t control how their products are marketed. By designing digital product pages for smartphone users who are in that early discovery and research phase, your clients can make more money off of their products. Today, Suzanne
Each year we celebrate our launch on September 27, 2010 with a week of product announcements. We call this Birthday Week, but rather than receiving gifts, we give them away. This year is no different, except that it is… Cloudflare is 10 years old.
We continue to believe what we started Cloudflare believing 10 years ago: the Internet itself is a force for good worth fighting to defend. We need to keep striving to make the Internet itself better — always on, always fast, always secure, always private, and available to everyone.
This is a written version of my talk from Jamstack Conf London 2019.
Responsive typography has been tried in the past with a slew of methods such as media queries and CSS calc().
We recently shipped support for the origin-bound draft standard for security codes delivered via SMS. This standard ensures security codes are entered in a phishing-resistant manner. It accomplishes this by binding an SMS with…
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,…
“Intuitive design” is one of those overused phrases that we as designers hear all too often from stakeholders and their requirements. In this article, Carrie Webster explores what intuitive design actually means, why it doesn’t make sense, how we can better approach design solutions, and what the future of interfaces might look like. It is aimed at user experience designers and anyone interested e
It’s been one year since I joined Cloudflare as Head of Australia and New Zealand. Our team has been even more humbled by our mission to help build a better Internet and help organisations face the increased security threats COVID-19 has triggered.
Firewall Rules lets customers filter the traffic hitting their site, powered by our Wirefilter engine. We’re excited to share some in-depth optimizations we have recently made to improve the performance of our edge.
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like:
How Figma works with tools like Confluence and Avocode
In business meetings, it's common to compare groups of numbers by comparing their averages. But doing so often hides important information in the distribution of the numbers in those groups. There are a number of data visualizations that shine a light on this information. These include strip charts, histograms, density plots, box plots, and violin plots. These are easy to produce with freely avail
Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics each week to help…
The developer community in India is thriving and growing. There’s lots of developers, open source maintainers, and contributors. Here at GitHub India, we’re excited to announce our next Virtual Meetup…
In this interview, we dig deeper with Maya Kaczorowski on what DevSecOps is, and how to apply it. It’s a mindset shift in how development teams think about security. DevSecOps is about making all parties who are part of the application development lifecycle accountable for security of the application.
Coding thousands of pieces of artwork teaches you a thing or two about the creative process. Whether you want to overcome perfectionism, learn new skills, or simply explore the playful side of coding, regular projects may be just what you need. In this article, Saskia Freeke will share her thoughts and experience. We hope to yield the inspiration you need to start similar projects of your own.
Credential harvesting phishing emails leverage GDPR compliance and exploits cloud-based services, Virtual Private Servers, to target sales executives.
If we need to show documentation to the user directly in the WordPress editor, what is the best way to do it?
Learn to add more advanced team sharing mechanisms to your Dropbox App from the lens of a college professor. Examples in Python SDK.
Advice on finding the right role and making the transition to the working world
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.22 is now here with GitHub Actions, Packages and Advanced Security Code Scanning available for the very first time.
It’s now even easier to review logs from your GitHub Actions workflow runs. We’ve introduced several improvements to make the experience more performant, precise, and pleasing to use. Why these…
Security is a complex area. One software component may break the assumptions made by another component and it is not always clear who should fix the code to remediate the security implications.
GitHub’s mobile applications have used GraphQL to power new features. We’ve now been able to move faster and get more done with less hassle and no over-fetching. We were able…
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.
In modern development, there are so many great tools for developing websites, but often they are more than what’s necessary for a given project. Because these tools are built for diverse use cases, they have to have a lot of features. Those features make them powerful. They also make them quite complex and opaque for new developers. In this article, Bryan Robinson will explore how to take a humble
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It’s true, web animation can be accessible! Sometimes it just takes a little extra effort to make sure that it is. There are strategic things we can do to
Super cool project from Bennett Feely! It makes any web type into 3D lettering with a mouseover effect that moves the 3D objects in space. It's reminiscent of
How trust powers open design, and more takeaways from Config Europe
What do you do when you find a snake in your datacenter? You might say this. (NSFW) Fault tolerance is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some of its components. You might think Facebook solved all of its fault tolerance problems long ago, but when a serpent enters the Edenic datacenter realm, even Facebook must consult the Tree of Know
All pages of a Shopify online store can adopt CSS Grid, but one obvious touchpoint of any e-commerce site that can benefit from a robust and clean grid layout is the collection page. In this article, Liam Griffin will be looking at how to set up a grid layout for products on your collection pages, and how to use Shopify’s section settings to create customizable options in the online store editor.
We’re talking about RedwoodJS. What exactly does it mean to be a full-stack Jamstack framework? Drew McLellan talks to community champion Anthony Campolo to find out.
It's not all that different really, especially that part where you can lose all your bitcoin. Here's an excerpt from East of Eden by John Steinbeck: Say, Carlton, how do you go about telegraphing money?” “Well, you bring me a hundred and two dollars and sixty cents and I send a wire telling the Valdosta operator to pay Adam one hundred dollars. You owe me sixty cents too.” “I’ll pay—say, how do I
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
The U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering has elected Facebook Research Scientist Mark Harman as a Fellow for his achievements in academia and industry, including his work on search-based software engineering (SBSE), intelligent software testing tools, and web-enabled simulation (WES) approaches. Election to the Academy is by invitation only, and it is one of the highest […]
At Slack, we’ve gone through an evolution of our AWS infrastructure from the early days of running a few hand-built EC2 instances, all the way to provisioning thousands of EC2s instances across multiple AWS regions, using the latest AWS services to build reliable and scalable infrastructure. One of the pain points inherited from the early…
Building positive relationships with your clients is the secret ingredient to delivering better work, earning more money, and creating lasting partnerships. In this article, Matt Saunders is going to teach some strategies for managing client communication and processes that have helped him to run less stressful projects and achieve better results, as well as draw upon some best practices to help y
