Connecting with Mob Programming - Shopify
Mob programming builds on pair programming but instead of two people pairing, it's an entire mob—more than two people—pairing on the same problem.
How To Build An E-Commerce Site With Angular 11, Commerce Layer And Paypal — Smashing Magazine
Having an e-commerce store is crucial for any store owner as more and more customers are turning to online shopping. In this article, Zara Cooper will cover how to build an e-commerce store using Angular 11. You shall use Commerce Layer as our headless e-commerce API. Although there may be tonnes of ways to process payments, she’ll demonstrate how to use just one, Paypal.
Cloudflare's Athenian Project Expands Internationally
Due to the growing trend of cyberattacks targeting election infrastructure, election security is not a US-specific issue. Today, we are extending our security tools to a range of election entities
Working with those who protect human rights around the world
Today, we are announcing Radar Alerts, a new program to help our civil society partners track and document Internet shutdowns and protect democratic elections around the world from cyberattacks.
Certifying our Commitment to Your Right to Information Privacy
Cloudflare recognizes privacy in personal data as a fundamental human right and has taken a number of steps, including certifying to international standards, to demonstrate our commitment to privacy.
Cloudflare and COVID-19: Project Fair Shot Update
Cloudflare Waiting Room helping organizations around the world to stifle COVID-19 and aid with easy rapid vaccinations.
Project Galileo and The Global Cyber Alliance Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
Independent media and journalists are targeted both physically and online as a result of reporting critical events around the world. Learn how the Global Cyber Alliance and Project Galileo
Cloudflare's Human Rights Commitments
Today, we are releasing our first human rights policy. The policy sets out our commitments and the way we implement them. Cloudflare’s mission — to help build a better Internet — reflects a long-
A linear programming approach for optimizing features in ML models
Whether it’s iterating on Facebook’s News Feed ranking algorithm or delivering the most relevant ads to users, we are constantly exploring new features to help improve our machine learning (ML) models. Every time we add new features, we create a challenging data engineering problem that requires us to think strategically about the choices we make. […]
There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit — Smashing Magazine
What are absolute units? What are the differences between relative and absolute units, and how do we create accurate sizes on the web? It’s important to note that there are still significant differences between relative and absolute units. CSS relative units are sized according to other style definitions defined by parent elements or are affected by the size of a parent container. As for absolute
Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches
Crawler Hints provide high quality data to search engine crawlers on when content has been changed on sites using Cloudflare, allowing them to precisely time their crawling, avoid wasteful crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins.
Introducing Smart Edge Revalidation
When both Last-Modified and Etag headers are absent from the origin response, Smart Edge Revalidation will use the time the object was cached on Cloudflare as the Last-Modified header value. When
Using Absolute Value, Sign, Rounding and Modulo in CSS Today
For quite a while now, the CSS spec has included a lot of really useful mathematical functions, such as trigonometric functions (sin(), cos(), tan(), asin(),
30 updates: recent features and fixes in Figma
A compilation of recent improvements that enhance your workflow in Figma
15+ new code scanning integrations with open source security tools
Today, we’re happy to announce more than 15 new integrations with open source security tools that broaden our language coverage to include PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, and more.
Email Classification
With the release of Slack Connect, people can now collaborate both with internal employees and external organizations in the same channel. To make this as smooth as possible, Slack does predictive email analysis to classify and recommend the best way for a user to work with people they want to collaborate with. To accomplish this,…
Creating An Accessible Dialog From Scratch — Smashing Magazine
Dialogs are everywhere in modern interface design (for good or for bad), and yet many of them are not accessible to assistive technologies. In this post, Kitty Giraudel is going to write a small JavaScript library for authoring accessible dialogs from the very beginning. The goal is to understand what goes into it. She’s not going to deal with styling too much, just the JavaScript part.
Cloudflare: 100% Renewable & Zeroing Out Emissions Back to Day 1
By 2025 Cloudflare aims to remove all greenhouse gases emitted as the result of powering our network, and we are committed to powering our network with 100% renewable energy.
Helping build a green Internet
While we didn't set out to reduce the environmental impact of the Internet, Cloudflare has always had efficiency at its core. It comes from our ongoing fight with an old nemesis: the speed of light.
Announcing Green Compute on Cloudflare Workers
At Cloudflare, our goal is to bring sustainable computing to you without the need for any additional time, work, or complexity.
Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance Per Watt
Using Arm, Cloudflare can now securely process over ten times as many Internet requests for every watt of power consumed, than we did for servers designed in 2013.
Understand and reduce your carbon impact with Cloudflare
As part of Cloudflare’s Impact Week, we’re excited to announce a new tool: Your Carbon Impact Report, available today for all Cloudflare accounts, will outline the carbon savings of operating your Internet properties on Cloudflare’s network.
Green Hosting with Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare is proud to announce its collaboration with the Green Web Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with the mission of creating an Internet that one day will run on entirely renewable energy.
CSS Logical Properties and Values
Now that cross-browser support is at a tipping point, it's a good time to take a look at logical properties and values. If you're creating a website in
Learnings From a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks
I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Essentially use the tool, poke
ES2021 Features
Hemanth HM very succinctly shows off ES2021 features. Gosh it doesn't feel like that long ago that all we could talk about is ES2015, and now that's over a
Standing up for developers: the GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship at Stanford Law School
GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle appropriate DMCA cases for developers on GitHub and across the software ecosystem.
Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Next.js has strong opinions about how to organize JavaScript but not CSS. How can we develop patterns that encourage best CSS practices while also following the framework’s logic? The answer is surprisingly simple — to write well-structured CSS that balances global and local styling concerns. In this article, Alexander Dubovoy will build a website (a tea shop!) to demonstrate these patterns.
Announcing Project Pangea: Helping Underserved Communities Expand Access to the Internet For Free
Cloudflare is excited to announce Project Pangea. We’re launching a program that provides secure, performant, reliable access to the Internet for community networks that support underserved communities, and we’re doing it for free because we want to help build an Internet for everyone.
Why I joined Cloudflare — and why I’m excited about Project Pangea
If you are well-prepared to take up the challenge, you will get to experience a moment where you are stepping forward to help build a better world. I felt exactly that when I joined Cloudflare as a Systems Engineer in Austin, Texas.
Understanding Where the Internet Isn’t Good Enough Yet
This week, Cloudflare is announcing Project Pangea, with the goal of helping reduce Internet access inequality.
Introducing Flarability, Cloudflare’s Accessibility Employee Resource Group
I’m pleased to introduce myself and Cloudflare’s newest Employee Resource Group (ERG), Flarability. The 31st anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act is an ideal time to raise the subject of accessibility at Cloudflare and around the world.
Demystifying styled-components
Joshua Comeau digs into how styled-components works by re-building the basics. A fun and useful journey.
How I Built a Cross-Platform Desktop Application with Svelte, Redis, and Rust
At Cloudflare, we have a great product called Workers KV which is a key-value storage layer that replicates globally. It can handle millions of keys, each of
Slinkity
Perhaps the #1 reason I love Astro is that it brings the JavaScript component authoring experience to the Static Site Generator world with zero JavaScript
Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station — Smashing Magazine
Gatsby recently announced the launch of “functions”. In this article, Paul Scanlon explains how to get the current location of the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbits the Earth in real-time using [Gatsby Functions](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/reference/functions/) and then display it on a 3D interactive globe using [React Three Fibre](https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber).
Welcome to Cloudflare Impact Week
We originally conceived the idea of Impact Week as a way to highlight some of the things we were doing as a company around our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.
Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in cdnjs
Recently, a RCE vulnerability in the way cdnjs’ backend is automatically keeping web resources up to date has been disclosed. Read about how Cloudflare handled the security incident and what will prevent similar exploits in the future.
AWS’s Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
Empowering customers with the Bandwidth Alliance
High egress costs from a Cloud limit customers choice in Cloud services. Cloudflare’s Bandwidth Alliance with our cloud partners provides an alternative to this lock-in. Our customers have benefitted from this both via discounted egress costs and choice of storage providers.
A Guide To Attracting Clients To Your Agency — Smashing Magazine
Word-of-mouth recommendation is an incredibly desirable way to win work. It requires zero marketing efforts and typically converts at a higher rate as your agency has been recommended. However, you should never rely on word of mouth alone. Many web design agencies consider it a badge of honor that they win work exclusively through word-of-mouth recommendations. In this article, Paul Boag explains
Upgrading the Cloudflare China Network: better performance and security through product innovation and partnership
Cloudflare and our strategic partner in China have created a global network that offers a fast experience for visitors inside and outside of China — with DDoS mitigation, web application firewall (WAF), and other security services built in.
Introducing Workers Usage Notifications
Today we’re excited to launch Workers usage notifications that proactively send relevant usage information directly to your inbox.
How the Figma PM team builds products and processes
A look at their daily habits and weekly syncs
Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects
When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.
GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Go community
GitHub’s supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report, and prevent security vulnerabilities.
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These features change many different areas of MySQL, including client connectors, storage engine, optimizer, and replication. Each new major version of MySQL requires significant time and effort to […]
Adding Time To Your Schedule As A Professional — Smashing Magazine
Are you running a business and have too many things going on at once? Meetings, bugs, customer feedback, new clients in addition to your already tight deadlines? Let’s face it, time management is hard, and it becomes even more difficult in the trying times we are in. Here’s how tools like [Trafft](https://trafft.com) that have meeting scheduling software capabilities can be used to easily set up o
Expanding Cloudflare to 25+ Cities in Brazil
Today, we are excited to announce an expansion we’ve been working on behind the scenes for the last two years: a 25+ city partnership with one of the largest ISPs in Brazil.
Yet Another Mobile Context Menu With No Indication it Can Scroll
Remember Tyler Hall's personal story of a UX moment where the popup sharing context menu on iOS had no visible indication that the content inside was
A Guide to Running an Engineering Program - Shopify
Shopify has a playbook for huge engineering programs in the past that cross over multiple areas of complexity on the platform, and we’d like to share it with you.
Color Tools And Resources — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? We’ve collected some useful color tools and resources that we’ve discovered lately — to help you get the most out of your creativity. We’ve also just recently covered [CSS auditing tools](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/), [CSS generators](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-generators/), [accessible front-end components]
DDoS attack trends for 2021 Q2
The DDoS attack trends observed over Cloudflare’s network in 2021 Q2 paint a picture that reflects the overall global cyber threat landscape. Here are some highlights of DDoS attack trends observed in 2021 Q2.
PostgreSQL zheap: Current status
zheap has been designed as a new storage engine to handle UPDATE in PostgreSQL more efficiently. Read about the current status and more.
Inside Figma: a Q&A with our global sales team
A chat with the sales team about what they've learned and what they're looking forward to
Extending Anvil for Fun and Profit
Note: This article assumes some familiarity with Dagger, Anvil, and Kotlin. We use Dagger heavily in the Slack Android app for compile-time dependency injection. It’s powerful, flexible, supports basic Kotlin idioms, and allows for advanced dependency injection patterns with less boilerplate. It’s not without its sharp edges though. It slows down our builds with kapt,…
How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Alba Silvente will take a look at when it makes sense to migrate from a monolithic project to a headless setup and the benefits that come with it. In addition to a step-by-step guide on how to migrate WordPress to Storyblok Headless CMS, the problems that will arise during the process and how to deal with them.
How To Learn Stuff Quickly
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
Maintaining End-To-End Quality With Visual Testing — Smashing Magazine
A critical part of any developer’s workflow is definitely testing. It helps us to ensure that our project is going to maintain a high level of quality, as well as prevent any pesky bugs from getting out into the wild. By adding visual elements to your tests, you can gain more options to add meaningful ways in maintaining a high level of quality for your app. In this article, Colby Fayock explains
Rich, complex rules for advanced load balancing
Take control of your traffic by adding custom logic to your origin selection and traffic steering decisions!