The Copyright Office expands your security research rights
Recently, the Copyright Office responded to the calls to clarify the scope of protected security research.
A Modern CSS Reset
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website — Smashing Magazine
The separation of content and presentation that CSS gives us always comes in handy when we need to adapt designs to better serve different communities. With a little CSS, we can adapt our web designs to be more accommodating for people with dyslexia. In this article, John C Barstow will explore those techniques by adding a dyslexia-friendly mode to an existing design.
Vercel: Series D funding announcement
Vercel raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation to accelerate its mission to make the Web faster for developers and teams.
Burkina Faso Internet shutdown
People living in Burkina Faso are facing an Internet shutdown. Cloudflare Radar shows that after 22:00 UTC (the same local time) Internet traffic went down significantly, something that has happened in the context of social tensions in the country that started on November 14, 2021.
Sudan was cut off from the Internet for 25 days
The Internet started to come back to Sudan (with limitations) this past Thursday, November 18. This happens after 25 days (three weeks and four days) of an almost complete shutdown that affected the whole country.
Responsive Layouts, Fewer Media Queries
We cannot talk about web development without talking about Responsive Design. It’s just a given these days and has been for many years. Media queries are a
Accelerate security adoption in your organization
The GitHub Services Engineers have released the Advanced Security Enforcer GitHub Action to enable organizations to utilize code scanning in a consistent and automated way.
Smashing Workshops: Winter 2021 — Smashing Magazine
What’s the state of CSS, Vue.js and Next.js? What are new, smart interface design patterns we could use? Let’s figure it out. With our [online workshops on UX, front-end and design](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops).
Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Implementing a performance culture at Wix can enable you to apply performance enhancements to almost every part of your technological stack — from infrastructure to software architecture and media formats. In this article, Dan Shappir shares which actions and processes the Wix team put in place in order to achieve dramatic improvements in the performance of websites built and hosted on their platf
Network Performance Update: Full Stack Week
Several months ago, we shared extensive benchmarking results of edge networks around the world, and made a commitment that we would improve in 10% of networks where we were not #1. Here are our results today.
Launching a Startup on Cloudflare Workers
One of the most exciting things about serverless is not that you can now build everything in serverless, but that it becomes really easy to connect multiple managed services. Tejas Mehta built cClip by connecting services like RevenueCat, Stripe and Firebase into a fully fledged product.
An Open-Source CMS on the Cloudflare Stack: Introductory Post
We are developing an example feature-complete SaaS application that will be built entirely on the Cloudflare stack.
Build your next video application on Cloudflare
Today, we’re going to build a video application inspired by Cloudflare TV. We’ll have user authentication and the ability for administrators to upload recorded videos or livestream new content. Think about being able to build your own YouTube or Twitch using Cloudflare services!
Announcing native support for Stripe’s JavaScript SDK in Cloudflare Workers
Handling payments inside your apps is crucial to building a business online. For many developers, the leading choice for handling payments is Stripe.
New Stream Player customizations to boost your video experience
Today, we are extending the Stream Player vision with a series of new customization options to help you deliver the best end-user experience.
Coding Font Game
A tournament bracket UI where you pick your favorite between two coding fonts and your choices are whittled down all the way to a final winner. A clever way
In case you missed it, GitHub Education at Universe 2021!
A recap of all the GitHub Education news from Universe 2021, including the new Intro to Web Dev Experience.
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? October 2021 recap
A public beta of the new GitHub Issues, a “security manager” role for organizations, a command palette beta, and lots more.
Next.js Wildcard Subdomains — Smashing Magazine
Wildcard domains often go under the radar. Hosting with a wildcard subdomain enables your users to visit your site on any subdomain of your domain (*.example.com), and as you can imagine, we can use this to create unique user experiences which we’ll be exploring in this article through a Next.js lens.
Workers, Now Even More Unbound: 15 Minutes, 100 Scripts, and No Egress Fees
Workers is now even more Unbound, with no egress, more execution time, and more scripts.
The Cloudflare Developer Expert Program: apply today!
The Cloudflare Developer Expert Program rewards developers who build on Cloudflare
Cloudflare Images introduces AVIF, Blur and Bundle with Stream
Two months ago we launched Cloudflare Images for everyone and we are amazed about the adoption and the feedback we received. Today we are announcing AVIF and Blur support for Cloudflare Images and give you a preview of the upcoming functionality.
Developer Spotlight: Automating Workflows with Airtable and Cloudflare Workers
Jacob operates TriTails Premium Beef, an online store for meat, a very perishable good. So he has a unique set of challenges with shipping. As a developer, he turned to Airtable and Cloudflare Workers to automate large parts of the process to be able to deal with their rapid growth.
PHP Date and Time Recipes
Dealing with dates and times is one of those things that can frustrate programmers a lot. At the same time, they are fundamental to software development, used
7 advanced workflow automation features with GitHub Actions
Check out some advanced automation and CI/CD capabilities you can use today with GitHub Actions on any GitHub account.
Fall of the machines: Exploiting the Qualcomm NPU (neural processing unit) kernel driver
In this post, I’ll use three bugs that I reported to Qualcomm in the NPU (neural processing unit) driver to gain arbitrary kernel code execution as root user and disable SELinux from the untrusted app sandbox in an Android phone.
New Radar features help you better manage fraud
We’ve improved our machine learning performance and added features to help you monitor fraud and adapt to the latest trends.
Cloudflare Pages Goes Full Stack
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
Developer Spotlight: Chris Coyier, CodePen
Due to the nature of CodePen — namely, hosting code and an incredibly popular embedding feature, allowing developers to share their CodePen “pens” around the world — any sort of optimization can have a massive impact on CodePen’s business.
Building a full stack application with Cloudflare Pages
Full-stack support for Cloudflare Pages is now in open beta, and you can test it today with this example image-sharing project that integrates with KV, Durable Objects, Cloudflare Images and Cloudflare Access.
Cloudflare Pages now partners with your favorite CMS
Cloudflare Pages partners up with some of the biggest headless CMSs
Cloudflare Pages now offers GitLab support
Cloudflare Pages partners up with GitLab for full git integration.
Cherry-Picking Commits in Git
In part 5 of this series, we looked at rebasing and merging. Although there are a couple of differences between git merge and git rebase, both commands have the same goal: they integrate changes from one branch into another.
The Gap (Design Engineering)
Egor Kloos describes a situation where a (purely visual) designer asks for some changes to a component. There is a misunderstanding where the (code monkey)
GitHub’s developer-first approach to content moderation
GitHub puts the needs of developers at the core of our content moderation policies. Learn more about our approach and how you can contribute.
Debugging a weird 'file not found' error
Debugging a weird 'file not found' error
A Guide To Modern CSS Colors With RGB, HSL, HWB, LAB And LCH — Smashing Magazine
Did you know that your chosen color palette can have an impact on how much energy your website uses? Even a more environmentally friendly choice of colors can reduce the impact on the battery life of mobile devices. In this article, Michelle Barker shares advice on the not-so-obvious things you have to keep in mind when handling colors in CSS today.
Building Stripe Tax
With Stripe Tax, we make it easier for businesses to calculate and collect the right sales tax, VAT, and GST without needing to know the intricacies of tax rules or rates.
wrangler 2.0 — a new developer experience for Cloudflare Workers
We're excited to announce the second-generation of our developer tooling for Cloudflare Workers. It’s a new developer experience that’s out-of-the-box, lightning fast, and can even run Workers on a local machine. (Yes!)
Automatically generating types for Cloudflare Workers
Every time the Workers runtime code is built, a script runs over the public APIs and generates the Rust and TypeScript types as well as a JSON file containing an intermediate representation of the static types. The types are sent to the appropriate repositories and the JSON file is uploaded as well.
JavaScript modules are now supported on Cloudflare Workers
Now you can use JavaScript modules, also known as ECMAScript or “ES” modules, on Cloudflare Workers. This replaces the old “addEventListener” syntax with a new “import” and “export” semantics that makes it really easy to write reusable, modular code.
Developer Spotlight: James Ross, Nodecraft
Nodecraft allows gamers to host dedicated servers for their favorite games. James Ross is the Chief Technology Officer for Nodecraft and has advocated for Cloudflare — particularly Cloudflare Workers — within the company.
Introducing Services: Build Composable, Distributed Applications on Cloudflare Workers
We’re excited to announce Services, the new way to build composable, distributed applications on Cloudflare Workers. Learn how Services can replace the traditional “microservice architecture” with an alternative, zero-cost abstraction model.
Jamstack TV
That's the name of Netlify's YouTube Channel. Love that. I linked up Rich's talk the other day, which was a part of this past JamstackConf, but now all the
Line length revisited: following the research
Mary Dyson produces nitty gritty research on the long-accepted notion that shorter line lengths are more legible than longer ones. The study finds that
Generate a Pull Request of Static Content With a Simple HTML Form
Jamstack has been in the website world for years. Static Site Generators (SSGs) — which often have content that lives right within a GitHub repo itself — are
Stay in the flow with redesigned comments
Introducing updates to comments in Figma and FigJam
GraphQL global ID migration update
All newly created GraphQL objects now have IDs that conform to a new format, which we refer to as “next IDs.” Learn how to migrate older IDs to the new format and why we’re making the change.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: adding custom CodeQL queries to code scanning
The Exiv2 team tightened our security by enabling GitHub’s code scanning feature and adding custom queries tailored to the Exiv2 code base.
The 2021 State of the Octoverse
The State of the Octoverse analyzes data from millions of developers & repos to share trends across working habits, productivity, and career satisfaction.
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator”
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober — Smashing Magazine
Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces”, our brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric standards. 400 pages. Shipping starting in mid-January 2022. Jump to details and get the book right away.
Introducing Relational Database Connectors
Customers can connect to a Postgres or MySQL database directly from their Workers using a Cloudflare Tunnel today. In the future, you can use Database Connectors to achieve this natively using a standardized Socket API.
Durable Objects — now Generally Available
Today, we’re announcing that Durable Objects are generally available and production-ready for you to use!
Making connections with TCP and Sockets for Workers
The ability to make TCP and QUIC client connections from within Workers and Durable Objects, as well as the ability to connect to Workers over TCP and QUIC without using HTTP, will be coming to Cloudflare Workers. Here’s a peek at what we’re working on.
Workers adds support for two modern data platforms: MongoDB Atlas and Prisma
With built-in global deployments, insane scalability and the flexibility of JavaScript, more and more applications are choosing to build on our global platform.
Developer Spotlight: Winning a Game Jam with Jamstack and Durable Objects
Guido won the innovative category in one of the biggest Game Jams with a combination of Pages, Durable Objects, modern browser APIs, and a hefty amount of ingenuity.
Defining and Applying UI Themes Using the Mimcss CSS-in-JS Library
Theming UI refers to the ability to perform a change in visual styles in a consistent manner that defines the “look and feel” of a site. Swapping color
GitHub’s commitment to npm ecosystem security
We’re sharing details of recent incidents on the npm registry, our investigations, and how we’re continuing to invest in the security of npm.
