There's a good reason why experienced devs say "it depends" so often
I feel like Jerod Santo really understood what I was trying to say in Weaved Webs, when I was trying to cover the emerging WordPress ("versus") Jamstack
Some Industry Podcasts
It's called The Clearleft Podcast if you can believe that. It gets into new (at least to me) concepts like Design Ops and Design Sprints, which are loaded
The Paper Prototype Rule
I’ve been lucky to have worked with some of the best designers in the industry, including Zhenya Rynzhuk, Louis Paquet, Maria de la Paz Vargas, and of course,
Keeping your data pipelines healthy with the Great Expectations GitHub Action
This post is the second in our series on using GitHub for MLOps and data science. Just joining in? Get started with part one. Most continuous integration (CI) tools only…
Understanding TypeScript Generics — Smashing Magazine
An introduction to the utilization of Generics in TypeScript with examples grounded in real-world use cases, such as collections, approaches to error handling, the Repository Pattern, and so on. With this article, Jamie Corkhill hopes to provide an intuitive understanding of the notion of software abstraction through Generics.
Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 1)
At Spotify we try to be as scientific as possible about how we build our products. Teams generate hypotheses that we test by running experiments — normally in the form of an A/B test — to learn what works and what doesn’t. The learnings give us insights and fuel new product ideas.
Introducing Cloudflare Radar
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.
Speeding up HTTPS and HTTP/3 negotiation with... DNS
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.
The Serverlist: Workers Durable Objects, Cron Triggers, and more!
Check out our twentieth 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.
POW
As a connoisseur of web trickery, this is a must share:
Building an open and inclusive design process
Takeaways from Config Europe
GitHub Welcomes the OpenJDK Project!
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…
Code scanning is now available!
Now available, code scanning is a developer-first, GitHub-native approach to easily find security vulnerabilities before they reach production.
5 Ways Google Analytics Helps Web Developers In UI/UX Design — Smashing Magazine
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
Squirrels, Ghosts, And Moonlight: Tales From October (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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
Free, privacy-first analytics for a better web
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.
Start measuring Web Vitals with Browser Insights
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.
Explaining Cloudflare's ABR Analytics
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.
Make Your Own Dev Tool
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
Some New Icon Sets
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
When fonts fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
Unit Testing In React Native Applications — Smashing Magazine
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
Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless
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.
Birthday Week on Cloudflare TV: 24 Hours of Live Discussions on the Future of the Internet
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!)
Making Time for Cron Triggers: A Look Inside
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.
The Flavors of Object-Oriented Programming (in JavaScript)
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.
How to Use Quasi-experiments and Counterfactuals to Build Great Products - Shopify
A/B tests are not the only tool to understand causality: quasi-experiments and counterfactuals are powerful tools for causal inference if used right.
Different Ways To Design Digital Product Pages — Smashing Magazine
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
Welcome to Birthday Week 2020
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.
Cloudflare's 2020 Annual Founders' Letter
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.
ooooops I guess we’re* full-stack developers now
This is a written version of my talk from Jamstack Conf London 2019.
Linearly Scale font-size with CSS clamp() Based on the Viewport
Responsive typography has been tried in the past with a slew of methods such as media queries and CSS calc().
Phishing Resistant SMS Autofill
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 Action Hero
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? No Such Thing! — Smashing Magazine
“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
A Year Later: Reflections on the ANZ Security Landscape
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.
Building even faster interpreters in Rust
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.
Web Technologies and Syntax
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like:
Six integrations to help your product team collaborate in Figma
How Figma works with tools like Confluence and Avocode
Don't Compare Averages
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: Creating community through shared experiences
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…
GitHub India Virtual Meetup – Open Source & Hacktoberfest
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…
Lightning Q&A: DevSecOps in five with Maya Kaczorowski
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.
Answers to a reader's questions about bits of tech
Unexpected Learnings From Coding Artwork Every Day For Five Years — Smashing Magazine
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.
Are you GDPR-compliant? New phishing message harvests credentials with GDPR lure
Credential harvesting phishing emails leverage GDPR compliance and exploits cloud-based services, Virtual Private Servers, to target sales executives.
Using Markdown and Localization in the WordPress Block Editor
If we need to show documentation to the user directly in the WordPress editor, what is the best way to do it?
Manage team sharing in your Dropbox App
Learn to add more advanced team sharing mechanisms to your Dropbox App from the lens of a college professor. Examples in Python SDK.
Inside Figma: my time as a new grad
Advice on finding the right role and making the transition to the working world
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.22 is here
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.22 is now here with GitHub Actions, Packages and Advanced Security Code Scanning available for the very first time.
A better logs experience with GitHub Actions
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…
The grey area of software security: Whose responsibility is it?
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 Mobile and GraphQL
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…
Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk - Shopify
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.
Simplify Your Stack With A Custom-Made Static Site Generator — Smashing Magazine
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
Jamstack Conf
Here's an important detail here: It's free!
Accessible Web Animation: The WCAG on Animation Explained
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
ztext.js
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
The many dimensions of trust in design
How trust powers open design, and more takeaways from Config Europe
Snakes in a Facebook Datacenter - High Scalability -
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