Still Hoping for Better Native Page Transitions
It would be nice to be able to animate the transition between pages if we want to on the web without resorting to hacks or full-blown architecture choices to
Sticky Headers: 5 Ways to Make Them Better
Page Laubheimer says that if you're going to do a sticky header...
How to Add a Double Border to SVG Shapes
Let’s say someone asks you to add a double border to some random geometric SVG shapes. For some reason, you can’t use any graphic editor — they need to be
Coming together at Config 2021
Everything we announced at Config 2021
Introducing FigJam
FigJam is an online whiteboard for teams to brainstorm and ideate together
A Complete Guide To Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) With Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is a new evolution of the Jamstack, allowing you to update static content instantly without needing a full rebuild of your site. The hybrid approach of Next.js allows you to use ISR for e-commerce, marketing pages, blog posts, ad-backed media, and more. In this article, Lee Robinson will explore a new evolution of the Jamstack: Incremental Static Regeneration
Why Content Is Such A Fundamental Part Of The Web Design Process — Smashing Magazine
As designers, we are often burdened by the responsibility of producing and managing website content. It’s not our job to write it, but it’s not the client’s either. In many cases a vacuum emerges which ultimately gets filled with poor content. In this article, Matt Saunders will show you that you can avert disaster by including content production in the design process.
Announcing Cloudflare Images beta to simplify your image pipeline
Today, we are announcing the beta of Cloudflare Images: a simple service to store, resize, optimize, and deliver images at scale.
Start building your own private network on Cloudflare today
Starting today, your team can build a private network on Cloudflare’s network.
Say Hello to CSS Container Queries
Container queries are finally here! Now available behind a flag in the latest version of Chrome Canary, you can go ahead and experiment to your heart’s
Intrinsic Typography is the Future of Styling Text on the Web
The way we style text hasn’t changed much over the years. There have been numerous advancements to help make things more flexible, like layouts, but in terms
New and simplified Enterprise and Partner Terms
Can agreement terms be a great user experience? This was the challenge GitHub’s legal department set for itself last year. We’re excited to announce all-new GitHub Customer Terms for our…
How I Built My Blog
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Dynamic ProxySQL Query Rules - Shopify
Resiliency is important at Shopify and although we have many tools to help us during incidents, some problems need to be fixed at the database level. At Shopify, we use ProxySQL to manage connections between applications and our MySQL databases
Making GraphQL Work In WordPress — Smashing Magazine
Let’s explore the plugins providing GraphQL servers to WordPress. When should we use WPGraphQL, and when the GraphQL API for WordPress? Is there some advantage of one over the other, or some particular task that is easier to accomplish with one of them? In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will describe, from his own point of view but as objectively as possible, when WPGraphQL is the way to go and wh
A Full Circle Journey: Introducing Cloudflare Canada
Toronto will be home to Cloudflare’s first Canadian office and team. While I currently live in San Francisco, I was born and raised in Saskatchewan.
Why I'm helping Cloudflare grow in Canada
I am incredibly excited to join Cloudflare as Head of Sales for Canada to expand the company’s growth in the region as part of its mission to help build a better Internet.
How to Improve CSS Performance
There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. Milica Mihajlija puts a point on exactly why:
Open source goes to Mars 🚀
This morning, we watched in awe as the first Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, took flight in the thin Martian atmosphere. This is an incredible achievement for the teams at NASA and…
An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals — Smashing Magazine
How are Core Web Vitals measured? How do you know your fixes have had the desired effect and when will you see the results in Google Search Console? Let’s figure it out! In this post, Barry Pollard is going to attempt to explain a bit more about what’s going on here and explain some of the nuances and misunderstandings of these tools.
Cloudflare’s Partnership with HashiCorp and Bootstrapping Terraform with Cf-Terraforming
Learn more about Cloudflare and Hashicorp’s partnership and about our new release for our Terraform bootstrapping tool - cf-terraforming.
Containers at the edge: it’s not what you think, or maybe it is
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re exploring a new type of service at the edge: containers. If you have a use case for running containers at our edge, we’d love to know about it!
Introducing workers.new, custom builds, and improved logging for Workers
In the spirit of quickly solving problems, we’re excited to launch three new improvements to the Workers experience, so you can take your next idea and ship it even faster.
Announcing Cloudflare’s Database Partners
Cloudflare introduces Macrometa and Fauna as Edge database partners and adds database connectors for DynamoDB and Aurora to Cloudflare Workers, expanding what developers can build at the edge.
Node.js support in Cloudflare Workers
Check out the current state of Node.js compatibility with Workers. We want to hear from you on which Node.js-dependent libraries and APIs we should support.
Cloudflare Stream now supports NFTs
Today, we’re introducing a new API that takes an ERC-721 token ID and contact address and sets it on a video so every video on Stream can be represented with an NFT.
Notes on building debugging puzzles
Notes on building debugging puzzles
DIT — enabling de-identified data collection on WhatsApp
At WhatsApp, privacy is our DNA. That’s why we rolled out end-to-end encryption in 2016 — so that when messages are end-to-end encrypted, only you and your intended recipients can see the messages you send. But securing messages and calls is just one part of how we minimize the information we collect in the process […]
Management of Native Code and React Native at Shopify - Shopify
We had to determine how to leverage React Native while still using iOS and Android native features, and when and how we write native code.
Seven Mistakes To Avoid In Your Technical Interviews — Smashing Magazine
It’s no secret that the technical interview process leaves something to be desired; it’s often riddled with anxiety and stress. From the recruiter’s phone call to the systems design interview to negotiating a job offer, there is no all-encompassing technical interview resource, so Emma Bostian decided to create one. In this article, Emma Bostian is going to take a look at seven of the most common
Announcing Cloudflare for SaaS for Everyone
Before today, SSL for SaaS was only available to Enterprise customers. Today, we are excited to announce that our SaaS solution is available to everyone. And to reflect the evolution of the product since it was first released, we’re changing the name: Cloudflare for SaaS.
A Boring Announcement: Free Tunnels for Everyone
Argo Tunnel has been priced based on bandwidth consumption as part of Argo Smart Routing, Cloudflare’s traffic acceleration feature. Starting today, we’re excited to announce that any organization can use the secure, outbound-only connection feature of the product at no cost.
A Zero Trust terminal in your web browser
Starting today, your team can use that same platform to seamlessly connect to non-HTTP resources from inside of a browser with the same level of Zero Trust control available in web applications.
The Importance of Career Laddering
The title of this article is misleading. It’s not actually very important for an Engineering Manager to use career laddering, per se, or my process. It is,
pg_read_all_data - a system level "read all data" role for PostgreSQL!
A new feature has arrived: "pg_read_all_data" - a predefined role that can run an unfettered pg_dump without that role being a superuser.
Work with GitHub Actions in your terminal with GitHub CLI
gh brings GitHub to the command line by helping developers manage pull requests, issues, gists, and much more. As of 1.9.0, even more of GitHub is available in your terminal:…
How To Get Web Design Clients Fast (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
If you’re an agency owner, you know that you need customers to grow. No matter how big your dreams are, customers are the lifeblood of your business. But you’re probably wondering — how do you attract quality, high-paying clients?Selling is key to growing your web design business, but it doesn’t have to be complicated! With clear goals, customer research, and proven closing techniques, anyone can
From Cats With Love: New Navigation, Guides And Workshops — Smashing Magazine
At Smashing, we’ve been busy over the last few months. We’ve set up new workshops, redesigned our navigation, refined performance and improved accessibility. There are subtle UX changes coming in, and we’d love to share what we’ve been cooking. A sincere thank you for your kind, ongoing support and generosity — thank you for being smashing, now and ever!
How Core Web Vitals Will Impact Google Rankings in 2021
Landing a top spot on Google can have a multi-million dollar impact on your business. Starting in June 2021, the performance of your site (determined by Core Web Vitals) will be critical to your search ranking.
Introducing WebSockets Support in Cloudflare Workers
WebSockets are a powerful new addition to the Workers platform that unlocks real-time use cases in your application.
Improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers Unbound
Google’s new page experience measurements are going to be included in their search ranking in May 2021. Learn more about how to improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers.
Overflow Issues In CSS — Smashing Magazine
You may have come across horizontal scrollbar issues, especially on mobile, if you’re a front-end developer. Because there are many causes of scrollbar problems, there is no straightforward solution. Some issues can be fixed quickly, and some need a little debugging skill. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed will explore the causes of overflow issues and how to solve them. We will also explore how mode
Bringing AI to the edge with NVIDIA GPUs
To help anyone build AI-based applications Cloudflare is extending the Workers platform to include support for NVIDIA GPUs and TensorFlow. Soon you’ll be able to build AI-based applications that run across the Cloudflare network using pre-built or custom models for inference.
Location-based personalization at the edge with Cloudflare Workers
Geolocation data access is now available and free for all developers on our Workers platform, including users on the free plan!
Expanding the Cloudflare Workers Observability Ecosystem
Cloudflare adds Data Dog, Honeycomb, New Relic, Sentry, Splunk, and Sumologic as observability partners to the Cloudflare Workers Ecosystem
Cleaning up a large number of BLOBs in PostgreSQL
Basically, there are two ways to delete BLOBs (binary large objects):Change the PostgreSQL configuration or delete the BLOBs in chunks.
Implementing least privilege for secrets in GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions provide a powerful, extensible way to automate software development workflows. When access to outside resources is required, GitHub provides the ability to store encrypted secrets used by GitHub…
Building A Video Streaming App With Nuxt.js, Node And Express — Smashing Magazine
Instead of sending the entire video at once, a video is sent as a set of smaller chunks that make up the full video. This explains why videos buffer when watching a video on slow broadband because it only plays the chunks it has received and tries to load more. In this article, Deven Rathore will build a video streaming app using Nuxt.js and Node.js. Specifically, you’ll build a server-side Node.j
Developer Challenges
Developer week is here! Throughout the week we are running a series of Developer Challenges that give you the perfect excuse to play with our new features. See how many of the challenges you can get through.
Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available and ready for your production needs.
Live stream to multiple platforms with Stream Connect
We are announcing Stream Connect, a service that enables creators and creator platforms to push RTMPS feeds to the Cloudflare edge and have it restreamed to your audience on popular platforms including Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube.
Muted spaghetti line charts with R's ggplot2
How I plot a muted-spaghetti chart with R, including facets.
A Complete Guide To HTML Email — Smashing Magazine
In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered CSS generators, SVG generators and accessible front-end components. This time we look into templates and tools for building and designing HTML emails. Don
Developers, Developers, Developers: Welcome to Developer Week 2021
This week, like we have done in previous Innovation Weeks (such as Security Week or Privacy Week), we will be making many (about 20) announcements of products and features to make developers’ lives easier.
Per Origin Host Header Override
Load Balancing as a concept is pretty straightforward. Take an existing infrastructure and route requests to the available origin servers so no single server is overwhelmed. Add in some health monitoring to ensure each server has a heartbeat/pulse so proactive decisions can be made.
Release Radar
The open source community is always hard at work. February’s projects were super hard to pick since there are so many amazing releases. These are exciting new releases from some…
How Shopify Dynamically Routes Storefront Traffic - Shopify
In 2019 we set out to rewrite the Shopify storefront implementation. Our goal was to make it faster. We talked about the strategies we used to achieve that goal in a previous post about optimizing server-side rendering and implementing efficient caching. To build on that post, I’ll go into detail on how the Storefront Renderer team tweaked our load balancers to shift traffic between the legacy sto
Growing UX Maturity In Organizations: Education And Training (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
UX practitioners can play an important role in growing the UX maturity of the organizations and product teams they work with. This final article in a three-part series presents two additional tactics that are critical for achieving and maintaining higher levels of UX maturity: education of UX staff and education of non-UX staff on UX principles and processes.
Jonathon Dixon: Why I joined Cloudflare
I’m excited to announce that on March 1st, I joined Cloudflare as Vice President and GM, Asia Pacific (including Japan and Greater China) to help build and expand Cloudflare’s growing customer and partner base and presence in the region.
Dynamic URL Rewriting at the edge with Cloudflare
Today we are announcing the immediate availability of Transform Rules for all Cloudflare plans. Transform Rules provide Cloudflare administrators with the ability to create URL rewrite rules.
