How to connect your offices to Cloudflare using SD-WAN
Today, a more modern approach is to use SD-WAN to configure your networks and connect them to Cloudflare’s network, leveraging that as the new corporate backbone. It's quick and easy!
PII and Selective Logging controls for Cloudflare’s Zero Trust platform
Today we’re excited to announce a combination of two features, Zero Trust role-based access and selective logging. With these features, administrators will be able to protect not only their users but also the data their users generate.
Reduce Your Website’s Environmental Impact With a Carbon Budget
As I write this, world leaders are gathering in Glasgow for COP26, the international climate change conference, in the attempt to halt (or at least slow down)
Write more secure code with the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls
This lesser-known OWASP project aims to help developers prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced in the first place.
Safeguard your containers with new container signing capability in GitHub Actions
GitHub has partnered with the OpenSSF and Project Sigstore to add container image signing to our default “Publish Docker Container” workflow.
DNS "propagation" is actually caches expiring
DNS "propagation" is actually caches expiring
Designing Better Links For The Web — Smashing Magazine
There are so many websites out there that have not considered the overall usability of their visually impaired users. When it comes to designing better links and sending better emails, Slava Shestopalov has a few tips on how to improve your website’s experience while accessibility in mind.
Welcome to CIO Week and the future of corporate networks
This week, we’ll demonstrate how Cloudflare One, our Zero Trust Network-as-a-Service, is helping CIOs transform their corporate networks.
How to use dig
How to use dig
Get notified when your site is under attack
Cloudflare can now send proactive notifications about any application security event spike, so you are warned whenever an attack might be targeting your application.
The Grinch Bot is Stealing Christmas!
Bots moved quickly this holiday season, launching over 1 trillion requests on Black Friday but quickly receding after the weekend.
Low framerate in Safari on M1 Mac
John James Jacoby:
Release Radar
The end of the year is getting closer, and our communities are busy working away on their projects. While you’ve all been busy maintaining open source projects and shipping releases,…
One way a builder culture can fail
Upgrading MySQL at Shopify - Shopify
Learn how the Database Platform team performed the most recent MySQL upgrade at Shopify and how this changed our upgrade guidelines moving forward.
Going from Coder to Slack Engineer
Over 70% of the files uploaded on Slack are images, and over 75% of those images are screenshots. What this tells us is that though images are ephemeral, screenshots are often used as a quick way to provide extra detail and context, and typically gain a high level of engagement over a short time period.…
Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Are you ready for the countdown to Christmas? From [festive](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/12/freebie-christmas-advent-icon-set-25-icons-ai-eps-svg-png-pdf/) [icon](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/freebie-christmas-icons-illustrations/) [sets](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/11/freebie-christmas-icon-set-ai-psd-eps-pdf-svg-png/) to advent calendars that are bound to sweeten
How To Protect Your API Key In Production With Next.js API Route — Smashing Magazine
There’s a great challenge that comes with building Jamstack applications on the web. In this article, Caleb Olojo will be using Next.js to bootstrap your app. This does not mean that the [create-react-app](https://create-react-app.dev/) library will not work. You can make use of any one that you find convenient. You’re using Next.js because of the many perks that come with it.
Exactly What You Want
What is one thing people can do to make their website better?
Embrace the Unpredictable
In nature, no two things are ever the same. Life is imperfect, unpredictable, and beautiful. We can walk through the same forest every day and see differently
The container throttling problem
Some thoughts on writing
Some latency measurement pitfalls
GitHub Availability Report: November 2021
In November, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.
Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers
You can multiply the impact of your domain experts by building their common workflows into ChatOps.
Remote rendering: Shopify’s take on extensible UI - Shopify
A deep dive into the latest generation of technology that allows developers to extend Shopify’s UI.
A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You
What does it take to go from an idea for a new playlist, to shipping that playlist to Spotify users all around the world? From inception, to prototyping, to QAing, and finally shipping, releasing a new playlist at Spotify is a long process full of new learnings every time.
How Spotify Uses ML to Create the Future of Personalization
Machine learning is what drives personalization on Spotify. We may have a single platform with 381 million different users, but it may actually be more accurate to say there are 381 million individual versions of Spotify, each one filled with different Home pages, playlists, and recommendations. But with a library of over 70 million tracks to thumb through, how do our ML models actually go about m
The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical
TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express a user’s based on how they listened this year. I like to think of it like this: if your music listening data became a person and walked down the street to the neighborhood aura reader, what would that person’s aura look like? That’s the 2021 Wrapped Audio Aura story.
Thanksgiving’s biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
November comes, the temperatures start to get colder for most of the planet's population (87% live in the Northern Hemisphere) and many are also starting to prepare for the festive season.
A Look at the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin
Cloudinary (the media hosting and optimization service) has a brand new version (v3) of its WordPress plugin that has really nailed it. First, a high-level
Diagonal Stripes Wipe Animation
I was playing this game on Apple Arcade the other day called wurdweb. It's a fun little game! Little touches like the little shape dudes that walk around the
Using the Reflog to Restore Lost Commits
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about future articles!
What’s new in Figma: November 2021
A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma and FigJam
GitHub Externships: enabling India’s next generation of developers
Are you a student in India? Applications are open for the GitHub Externships Winter Cohort!
5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow
From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows.
Architecture of Max reHIT Workout - High Scalability -
Today I have the pleasure of announcing my new app—Max reHIT Workout—on Product Hunt. Max reHIT Workout is an exercise app that guides you through interval workouts. I won’t pitch the app here. I'll just say I’m proud of how it turned out and if you want an optimal algorithm for exercising, you might like it. I know I haven’t been writing much lately. That's because there’s been very little evolut
Smashing Podcast Episode 44 With Chris Ferdinandi: Is The Web Dead? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we’re asking if changes to best practises over the last year have negatively impacted the web. Is it all downhill from here? Drew McLellan talks to expert Chris Ferdinandi to find out.
It’s That Time Of The Year (December 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome December with some new wallpapers! Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for the month. All wallpapers in this post are created with love and come in versions with and without a calendar for December 2021. Enjoy!
Attack Maps now available on Radar
We love line and bar graphs, but some data is best represented with different visualizations. We’re introducing world maps and sankey visualizations as part of Radar Maps, which are being used today to show you the top layer 7 attacks in real time.
Recreating the Apple Music Hits Playlist Animation in CSS
Apple Music has this "Spatial Audio" feature where the direction of the music in your headphones is based on the location of the device. It's tough to explain
GitHub Actions: reusable workflows is generally available
DRY your Actions configuration with reusable workflows (and more!)
The Case of the Recursive Resolvers
On September 30th 2021, Slack had an outage that impacted less than 1% of our online user base, and lasted for 24 hours. This outage was the result of our attempt to enable DNSSEC — an extension intended to secure the DNS protocol, required for FedRAMP Moderate — but which ultimately led to a series of…
3D CSS Flippy Snaps With React And GreenSock — Smashing Magazine
One of Jhey’s main mantras is to make learning fun. In this article, he shows you ways to level up your skills by bringing your ideas to life, and not forgetting that you can be playful with code. With that mindset, every idea is bound to become an opportunity to try something new. It’s fun to make things that we may not create on a day-to-day basis. Demos like this can pose different challenges a
How the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving
Throughout the pandemic we saw different trends caused by people being more at home than usual, but Internet patterns also change at specific times of the year (like when students go back to school or when it’s colder outside) or on some holidays like Thanksgiving.
Heard in the halls of Web Summit 2021
Global in-person events are back. We present a few ideas from Web Summit 2021 about the future and where the Internet is going. Check the interviews we’ve done at the event (from the lack of Internet access to Web3).
A Handy Little System for Animated Entrances in CSS
I love little touches that make a website feel like more than just a static document. What if web content wouldn’t just “appear” when a page loaded, but
When is it "Right" to Reach for contain and will-change in CSS?
I've got some blind spots in CSS-related performance things. One example is the will-change property. It's a good name. You're telling the browser some
Building an App Clip with React Native - Shopify
Being the first to build an App Clip in React Native that was going to be surfaced to millions of Shopify's Shop app users each day proved to be a challenging task.
How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application — Smashing Magazine
There are a few ways in which you can make a large code-base easy to maintain. In this article, Nirmalya discusses some of the complex problems that he faced while building and maintaining large Next.js applications. He always explains how these problems can be solved by using various tools. Most of these points will apply to any front-end application. For any front-end application, the main prior
Everything you ever wanted to know about UDP sockets but were afraid to ask, part 1
Historically Cloudflare's core competency was operating an HTTP reverse proxy. We've spent significant effort optimizing traditional HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 servers running on top of TCP.
Five Tips for Growing Your Engineering Career - Shopify
Five practical tips to help you grow and navigate your engineering career.
Creating Generative Patterns with The CSS Paint API
The browser has long been a medium for art and design. From Lynn Fisher's joyful A Single Div creations to Diana Smith's staggeringly detailed CSS paintings,
A Showcase Of Lovely Little Websites — Smashing Magazine
Instead of spending your coffee break scrolling through your social feeds, how about a lovely little website instead? We came across some fantastic ones that are just too good not to be shared. They are perfect for a short coffee break or whenever you’re up for a little bit of diversion. But be warned, your break might take a bit longer than intended.
Announcing Argo for Spectrum
Announcing general availability of Argo for Spectrum, a way to turbo-charge any TCP based application.
Control Layout in a Multi-Directional Website
Many business websites need a multilingual setup. As with anything development-related, implementing one in an easy, efficient, and maintainable way is
Which SVG technique performs best for way too many icons?
Tyler Sticka digs in here in the best possible way: by making a test page and literally measuring performance. Maybe 1,000 icons is a little bit of an edge
Entity-attribute-value (EAV) design in PostgreSQL - don't do it!
This article explains what the entity-attribute-value (EAV) model is and why you shouldn't use it in a relational database.
Secure deployments with OpenID Connect & GitHub Actions now generally available
GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect for secure deployment to different cloud providers via short-lived, auto-rotated tokens.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: how to squash bugs by enrolling in OSS-Fuzz
OSS-Fuzz is Google’s awesome fuzzing service for open source projects. GitHub Security Lab’s @kevinbackhouse describes enrolling a project.
