1,782 articles published in 2021.
Do you have to process data manually because it is served through images or scanned documents? An image-to-text conversion makes it possible to extract text from images to automate the processing of texts on images, videos, and scanned documents. In this article, we look at how to convert an image to text with React and Tesseract.js(OCR), preprocess images, and deal with the limitations of Tessera
Stripe launches an extension for Visual Studio Code. Learn more about what features are offered and how to get started.
Since launching in June 2020, Cloudflare TV has featured over 1,000 original live episodes covering an incredible array of topics and we're just getting started.
The outline property in CSS draws a line around the outside of an element. This is quite similar to the border property, the main exception being that outline
Voice assistants are currently the most popular use case for voice user interfaces. However, because voice assistants give feedback by talking to the user, assistants can only solve simple user tasks such as setting an alarm or playing music. In order for voice user interfaces to really break through, feedback to the user must be visual instead of auditive.
Next.js has a file-based routing system in which each page automatically becomes a route based on its file name. Each page is a default exported React component from the pages directory that can be used to define the most common route patterns. This article will guide you through almost everything you need to know about Routing in Next.js and point you in the direction of related topics and concep
Starting today Cloudflare WARP is available for Linux and comes with the ability to run as a local proxy.
Clipping and masking have been around for a while now in CSS and even have pretty decent browser support. I recently worked on a project that needed to use a
Images have become extremely important to the effectiveness of websites. They speak a 1000 words, attract attention, and stimulate emotions.
A “materialized view” is an integral feature of every advanced database system. How can you make use of materialized views in PostgreSQL?
Come learn about the PKCE OAuth flow! How it works, why it’s valuable, and how to use it to authorize your Dropbox app.
10 hard-earned lessons from controlled experiment, considered the gold standard approach for determining the true effect of a change.
Image placement on the modern web is highly intentional, helping to communicate the overall purpose of a page or view. This means that nearly every image you declare needs to have an alternate description. Nulling an image indicates that it is for decorative purposes only. In this context, decorative means that the image does not visually communicate information that is important to understanding
Maximize conversion, scale globally, and introduce new revenue streams with new products from Stripe.
Our product is specifically built for customers who experience high volumes of traffic, so we needed to run code at the edge in a highly scalable manner. Cloudflare has a great culture of building upon its own products, so we naturally thought of Workers.
The Web Animations API lets us construct animations and control their playback with JavaScript. The API opens the browser’s animation engine to developers and
Tips from the research and marketing teams at Figma
The latest version of GitHub Desktop allows you to squash commits, squash and merge, reorder, amend your last commit, check out a branch from a previous commit, and more.
In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered HTML Emails and SVG Generators. This time we look into different kinds of tools to help you streamline your accessibility testing process. Don’t miss the next one.
Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure Active Directory have partnered to provide an integration specifically for web applications using Azure Active Directory B2C
Our production backbone network connects our data centers and delivers content to our users. The network supports a vast number of different services, distributed across a multitude of data centers. Traffic patterns shift over time from one data center to another due to the introduction of new services, service architecture changes, changes in user behavior, […]
As more clients rely on GraphQL to query data, we witness performance and scalability issues emerging. We share some query strategies for GraphQL at scale.
When developing themes and plugins for WordPress, we need to test them in different environments. How can we create multiple testing sites on our computer, quickly and easily, without having to become a sysadmin? If our themes and plugins contain custom blocks, testing them for all different versions is imperative. At the very minimum, we need to worry about two versions of Gutenberg: the one ship
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about image optimization. What steps should we follow for performant images in 2021? We talk to expert Addy Osmani to find out.
When you load a file from an external server, you’re trusting that the content you request is what you expect it to be. Since you don’t manage the server
How our team celebrates and syncs in the file
Spoiler alert: tooltips, modals, tabs, carousels, and dropdown menus are some of the user interface components that require more than CSS. To ensure accessibility of your interface, JavaScript is a necessary addition to accomplish focus management, respond to keyboard events, and toggle ARIA attributes.
Today, Cloudflare is excited to announce a new wave of interconnection points and partners that quadruples our interconnectivity.
That's the one word that isn't an adjective in the acronym RSS.
There's a 33-minute video (and resources) over on apple.com covering the upcoming Safari changes we saw in the WWDC keynote this year in much more detail.
Why would we need to apply shadows to SVG?
Design often revolves around visuals, but the other senses deserve love too. In this article, we tune in to audio features that are making sites sing. Most of us have had the misfortune of crossing bad examples (auto-playing videos being a particularly egregious example) but audio can give web experiences a whole new dimension when applied well. What follows are some astounding sounds from the Wor
Starting today, you can build identity-aware, Zero Trust network policies using Cloudflare for Teams.
As awesome as flexbox is, what it’s doing under the hood is actually a little strange because, by default, it is doing two things at once. It first looks at the content size which is what we would get if by declaring width: max-content on an element. But on top of that, flex-shrink is also doing some work allowing the items to be smaller, but only if needed. Let’s break those two down and see how
Did you know PostgreSQL has the ability to synchronize sequential scans? If you are running data warehouses, you might have already used it without knowing.
What began as a small group effort in 2015 has now turned into a global initiative here at GitHub to amplify Black voices and talent in the tech community.
In May, GitHub shipped a total of 20 new features. We love what we do, but we know it’s a lot to keep up with. So we’re trying something new on the GitHub Blog—a monthly recap of everything that shipped to Changelog in the past month. Check out some of the updates you might have missed.
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.
Building Shopify’s schematization platform for managing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within our data warehouse.
We don’t need to write everything from scratch every single time. With boilerplates and starter kits, we can set up our projects faster, and get to work immediately. We’ve also just recently covered CSS auditing tools, CSS generators, accessible front-end components and VS code extensions — you might find them useful, too. This collection is by no means complete, but rather a selection of things t
Building a faster website can be a rocket task these days. There are so many things to consider, so it’s challenging to get everything right. Here are some less-known tools that might help you get there.
Every June, we celebrate the anniversary of Project Galileo. This year, we are proud to celebrate seven years of protecting the most vulnerable groups on the Internet from cyberattacks.
I don't know about y'all, but my feeds have been flooded with articles about CSS Container Queries these past few weeks. The buzz about container queries
What makes relational selector one of the most requested features and how are we, as developers, working around not having it? In this article, we’re going to check the early spec of the :has selector, and see how it should improve the CSS workflow once it’s released.
Stripe’s SCA engine helps European businesses meet requirements and maximize conversion.
HTTP request headers can now be modified with Cloudflare Transform Rules.
Have you ever experienced the frustration of trying to tap a button on a mobile device only to have it do nothing because the target size is just not large
WordPress sites have an API by default. Wanna see this site's most recent posts, with just a specific set of data... in JSON format? Here ya go. Alex Riviere
Templates for you and your team to get started with everything from brainstorms to retrospectives.
GitHub secret scanning has been securing our users’ code by scanning for and revoking secrets since 2015. Recently, we’ve focused on scanning for package registry credentials as well—a significant and…
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(External) memory fragmentation is a long-standing Linux kernel programming issue. As the system runs, it assigns various tasks to memory pages. Over time, memory gets fragmented, and eventually, a busy system that is up for a long time may have only a few contiguous physical pages. Because the Linux kernel supports virtual memory management, physical memory fragmentation is often not an issue. Wi
Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
It’s here! For the last year, we’ve been working with Addy Osmani on a new Smashing Book all around image optimization. And now it’s here. Meet “Image Optimization”, our deep-dive guide to understand how to deliver high-quality images on the web fast. 528 pages. From formats and compression to delivery and maintenance. Get the book right away!
Show/Hide password accessibility and password hints tutorial — Nicolas Steenhout goes deep on <input type="password"> accessibility. For one thing,
Let's look at some extensions for VS Code that make writing and editing HTML (and languages that are basically HTML with extra powers) better. You may not
In this guide, Prince Chukwudire will show you how to build a simple geocoding app from scratch, using Vue.js and Mapbox. He’ll cover the process from building the front-end scaffolding up to building a geocoder to handle forward geocoding and reverse geocoding. To get the most out of this guide, you’ll need a basic understanding of JavaScript and Vue.js and how to make API calls.
How to create and expose React Context providers and consumers
