Working With Built-in GraphQL Directives
Directives are one of GraphQL’s best — and most unspoken — features.
Willingness to look stupid
What to learn
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researchers @chen-robert and @ginkoid
GitHub’s bug bounty team is excited to kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a spotlight on two security researchers who participate in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program.
Journey Through a Dev Degree Intern’s First Placement - Shopify
Carmela, Dev Degree student, shares how she learned to appreciate the stages of learning, dispel the myth of the “real developer”, combat imposter syndrome by asking for help, and the power of valuing representation.
How To Implement Search Functionality In Your Nuxt App Using Algolia InstantSearch — Smashing Magazine
Many websites have some sort of search feature because it helps users navigate through their content easily. Implementing it the right way can be tricky and might not give a good user experience. In this tutorial, Miracle Onyenma will be integrating Algolia, a popular and powerful search service for the best experience on our Nuxt site.
Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration
At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of data, from listening history, to results of A/B testing, to page load times so we can analyze and improve the Spotify service. We instrument and log data across every surface that is running Spotify code through a system called the Event Delivery Infrastructure (EDI). Throughout this blog post we make a distinction between the internal users of the E
A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every time you added a few songs? One of Spotify’s core products, our mobile app, was designed specifically to leave all of that busywork in the past, changing how we travel with our music forever.
Serverless Live Streaming with Cloudflare Stream
You can now use Cloudflare to do serverless end-to-end live-streaming. Stream Live offers video ingestion, encoding, recording and a player in a single product.
Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service
Today we’re excited to announce that we're making the technology we used to build Cloudflare TV available to any other business that wants to run their own 24x7 streaming network.
Real-Time Communications at Scale
We’re making it easier to build and scale real-time communications applications around open technologies, starting with WebRTC Components.
Increased interest in Spanish media after the La Palma volcanic eruption
Cloudflare Radar shows how Spanish media outlets had an increase in Internet traffic after the volcano eruption on the island of La Palma.
Creating the Perfect Commit in Git
A commit can be something that helps us stay on top of things. It can be a container for related changes that belong to one and only one topic, and thereby make it easier for us to understand what happened. In this post, we’re talking about what it takes to produce the "perfect" commit.
Comparing HTML Preprocessor Features
Of the languages that browsers speak, I'd wager that the very first one that developers decided needed some additional processing was HTML. Every single CMS
Gaps in sequences in PostgreSQL
How you can end up with gaps in sequences & how they can even skip backwards. How to build a gapless sequence in PostgreSQL.
Enterprise managed users are now generally available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Manage your company in the cloud with more control and governance using enterprise managed users.
The fugitive in Java: Escaping to Java to escape the Chrome sandbox
In this post, I’ll exploit a use-after-free (CVE-2021-30528) in the Chrome browser process that I reported to escape the Chrome sandbox. This is a fairly interesting bug that shows some of the subtleties involved in the interactions between C++ and Java in the Android version of Chrome.
A Time Of Transition (October 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season with a fresh batch of desktop wallpapers. Created with love by designers and artists from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for October 2021.
How Cloudflare provides tools to help keep IPFS users safe
The Cloudflare IPFS module protects users from threats like phishing and ransomware.
Cloudflare for Offices
We are extending Cloudflare’s network directly into the most populated office buildings.
Dark Mode for the Cloudflare Dashboard
Dark mode is now available for the Cloudflare Dashboard in beta! From your user profile, you can configure the Cloudflare Dashboard in light mode, dark mode, or match it to your system settings.
How I built a modern website in 2021
I rewrote kentcdodds.com using the latest technologies and I want to talk about what I did.
Open-sourcing Mariana Trench: Analyzing Android and Java app security in depth
We’re sharing details about Mariana Trench (MT), a tool we use to spot and prevent security and privacy bugs in Android and Java applications. As part of our effort to help scale security through building automation, we recently open-sourced MT to support security engineers at Facebook and across the industry. This post is the third […]
Fun with glibc and the ctype.h functions
Reusing Code with React Native Packages at Shopify - Shopify
At Shopify, we develop a bunch of different React Native mobile apps: Shop, Inbox, Point of Sale, Shopify Mobile, and Local Delivery. These apps represent different business domains, but they often have shared pieces of functionality like login or foundational blocks they build upon. Wouldn’t it be great to leverage development speed and focus on important product features by reusing code other te
Using Modern Image Formats: AVIF And WebP — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll highlight how modern image formats (AVIF or WebP) can improve compression by up to 50% and deliver better quality per-byte while still looking visually appealing. We’ll compare what’s possible at high-quality, low-quality and file-size targets.
Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees
Introducing Cloudflare’s S3-compatible Object Storage service, with zero egress bandwidth charges and automatic migration from S3-compatible services.
Registrar for Everyone
We’re excited to announce that all customers now have the ability to register new domains with Cloudflare.
A Better Internet with UN Global Compact
In 2020, we decided to formalize our commitment to being an active partner in the global community by joining the UN Global Compact (UNGC) as a signatory.
JSON in PostgreSQL: how to use it right
This article describes what can go wrong when using the much-loved JSON capabilities of PostgreSQL and gives guidelines how to do it right.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is now generally available
This release brings over 70 new features and changes that improve developer experience and deliver new security capabilities.
2Africa Pearls subsea cable connects Africa, Europe, and Asia to bring affordable, high-speed internet to 3 billion people
Facebook invests in subsea cables as part of our continued efforts to build the infrastructure that carries internet traffic and helps bring more people online to a faster internet. Today, we are thrilled to announce, along with regional and global partners, a new segment of subsea cable called 2Africa Pearls, which connects three continents — […]
Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown — Smashing Magazine
You can find Markdown in many places on the Internet. In this article, Eric Bailey covers different aspects of Markdown and how it interacts with other technology. At first, it may seem daunting since there is a lot of content to cover across a few different subject areas, but keep in mind that each tweak and update will have a direct impact on someone’s quality of life when using the web.
Easily creating and routing email addresses with Cloudflare Email Routing
You can now easily and quickly create email addresses for domain, and forward to them all to your preferred inbox, like Gmail or Outlook. Cloudflare Email Forwarding is completely free, and always res
Tackling Email Spoofing and Phishing
Today we’re announcing a new tool to tackle email spoofing and phishing. We’ll warn users about insecure configurations and provide an easy-to-use wizard to create required DNS records.
What’s new in Figma: September 2021
The features, fixes, and capabilities we've added to Figma and FigJam
Revised enterprise DPA with new standard contractual clauses
As part of GitHub’s strong commitment to developer privacy, we are excited to announce updates to our privacy agreements in line with new legal requirements and our own robust data protection practices.
Chrome in-the-wild bug analysis: CVE-2021-30632
This post is a technical analysis of a recently disclosed Chrome JIT vulnerability (CVE-2021-30632) that was believed to be exploited in the wild. This vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher and was patched on September 13, 2021 in Chrome version 93.0.4577.82. I’ll cover the root cause analysis of the bug, as well as detailed exploitation.
Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In 2019, to meet GitHub’s growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.
Let’s Dive Into Cypress For End-to-End Testing — Smashing Magazine
Is end-to-end testing a painful topic for you? End-to-end testing does have some pitfalls that are cause for concern. Let’s look at how to prevent many of them. In this article, Ramona Schwering explains how to handle end-to-end testing with Cypress and make it make it not so tedious and expensive for yourself, but fun instead. hope to show you that end-end testing can be fun!
The Speed of Time
Cloudflare's 2021 Annual Founders' Letter
This week we celebrate Cloudflare's birthday. We launched the company 11 years ago tomorrow: September 27, 2010. It has been our tradition, since our first birthday, to use this week to launch innovative new products that we think of as our gift back to the Internet.
The Self Provisioning Runtime
Big thoughts on where the industry is headed from Shawn Wang:
Our Learning Partner: Frontend Masters
Frontend Masters has been our learning partner for a couple of years now. I love it. If you need structured learning to up your web development skills,
New tool: an nginx playground
New tool: an nginx playground
Shard Balancing: Moving Shops Confidently with Zero-Downtime at Terabyte-scale - Shopify
This post explains how we’re able to balance our MySQL shards by migrating shops across shards—entirely online and with virtually zero consumer-facing downtime.
Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
Developing with Next.js is amazing, but there are definitely some challenges. The developer experience with Next.js is something you just need to experience. We made the switch from a more traditional integrated e-commerce platform to a headless platform with Next.js. Here are the most important lessons learned while rebuilding a large e-commerce site with Next.js.
Free Online Workshop: Frustrating Design Patterns And How To Fix Them — Smashing Magazine
You’ve seen them before. Confusing and frustrating design patterns that seem to be chasing you everywhere you go, from one website to another. It’s time to fix them for good in a [free Smashing online workshop](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/workshops/frustrating-design-patterns/) next week. Today, Vitaly Friedman will take a look into carousels, modals, infinite scroll, parallax and sc
Bringing OAuth 2.0 to Wrangler
In this blog, we will look into what the OAuth 2.0 protocol is, and how it can help improve the authorization process in the command-line interface tool Wrangler used to manage your Cloudflare Workers.
What is Your Page Title on a Google Search Engine Results Page?
Whatever Google wants it to be. I always thought it was exactly what your <title> element was. Perhaps in lieu of that, what the first <h1> on the
Working With GraphQL Caching
If you’ve recently started working with GraphQL, or reviewed its pros and cons, you’ve no doubt heard things like “GraphQL doesn’t support caching” or
Learn How to Build True Edge Apps With Cloudflare Workers and Fauna
There is a lot of buzz around apps running on the edge instead of on a centralized server in web development. Running your app on the edge allows your code to
Announcing npm’s new access token format
npm access tokens will now follow the established format of GitHub authentication tokens.
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Rust
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on the Rust ecosystem!
Simplifying Form Styles With accent-color — Smashing Magazine
The new CSS `accent-color` property makes it quick and easy to roll out our brand colors to certain form inputs by leveraging user agent styles. It has the potential to provide quick and easy styling for many of our form elements, especially where extensive customization isn’t needed, as well as allowing the browser to pick the best options for accessibility. In this article Michelle Barker will t
Container Units Should Be Pretty Handy
Container queries are going to solve this long-standing issue in web design where we want to make design choices based on the size of an element (the
Twitter's div Soup and Uglyfied CSS, Explained
When I came up in web development (2005-2010 were formative years for me), one of the first lessons I learned was to have a clean foundation of HTML. "What
How to Implement Logging in a Node.js Application With Pino-logger
Logging, on its own, is a key aspect of any application. Logging helps developers comprehend what it is that their code is doing. It also helps save
Building an Oracle to PostgreSQL migrator: Lessons learned
Oracle to PostgreSQL migration - Lessons learned in building a migration tool. How to avoid errors, null bytes and broken content.
