Opening The Doors To 2023 (January Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s start into the new year with a little inspiration boost: wallpapers created with love by the community for the community. Happy 2023!
The state of HTTP in 2022
So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2022 Capture the Flag
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHub’s CTF challenge for Ekoparty’s 2022 event!
Fluid Typography: Predicting A Problem With Your User’s Zoom-In — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Ruslan Yevych will show you an easy way how to predict the appearance of a problem known as WCAG Failure Under 1.4.4 Resize Text (AA) while zooming the page. You will have a clear understanding of the possible risks of using responsive typography at the stage of development.
GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2022
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
2022 in Review
A review of what happened in the KCD world in 2022
My Car Accident
I was involved in a very bad car accident in 2022. Here's the story.
React Native Skia: A Year in Review and a Look Ahead - Shopify
A look at React Native Skia in 2022 and what kept Christian Falch, Colin Gray, and William Candillon busy. Plus, a look at what's ahead for the library in 2023.
JSON logs in PostgreSQL 15
Find out how JSON logs can be configured in PostgreSQL 15 and get all the advantages of this brand new feature
Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native - Shopify
In 2020, we announced that React Native is the future of mobile at Shopify. As part of that journey, we’ve been migrating Shopify Mobile (our largest app at 300 screens per platform) from native to React Native. Here’s how it’s going.
A Guide To Command-Line Data Manipulation — Smashing Magazine
No more random scripts in Python and JavaScript to transform CSV or JSON data. In this article, Alvin Bryan shows you how to use Miller, a small and powerful CLI tool, to do all your data processing.
Unintentionally BREAKing a serial console
Optimizing Ruby’s Memory Layout: Variable Width Allocation - Shopify
Shopify is improving CRuby’s performance in Ruby 3.2 by optimizing the memory layout in the garbage collector through the Variable Width Allocation project.
What’s with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.
Deploying CSS Logical Properties On Web Apps — Smashing Magazine
You may have already heard of CSS logical properties or RTL adaptations but are still deciding whether to deploy them widely. To help raise your awareness of their possibilities, Nicolas Hoffmann shares his experience of how he and his team at Proton carried out a massive move from CSS logical props to production and how you can consider them from a different perspective in your very own projects.
Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review
We’re excited to present the Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year In Review, featuring interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet throughout this past year
hex, oct, bin integers in PostgreSQL 16
NEW in PostgreSQL 16 - support for non-decimal notation of integer constants. Find out how the changes will affect you-- adds possibilities!
WPA3: no go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas)
Year in Review 2022: Tenderlove's Ruby and Rails Reflections and Predictions - Shopify
Senior Staff Engineer and Rails core team member Aaron Patterson recaps his favourite Ruby and Rails updates of 2022 and some predictions (okay, so maybe it’s more of a wish list) for 2023.
How Remote Caching decreased publish times by 80%
The Next.js release process got 80% faster using Turborepo Remote Caching.
One of our most requested features is here: DNS record comments and tags
Today, we’re releasing DNS record comments and tags, making it easier to keep track of and manage DNS records of your domain
GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees.
New zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging
New zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging
Systems design and being bitten by edge-triggering
Optimize your Next.js site: Tips from industry leaders
Hear from industry leaders on how you can best use React Server Components, the latest in Web UI, powerful layouts, and more to create a fast site.
UNION ALL, data types and performance
Find out the impact of PostgreSQL column data types on the performance of queries that involve a UNION ALL.
Increase developer productivity, save time on developer onboarding, and drive ROI in 2023
Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ study dives into how GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security help businesses drive ROI, increase developer productivity, and save time on developer onboarding.
Not just flightless birds: How EMUs secure and scale identity and access management for your GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise has evolved to support the needs of enterprise administrators, corporate security teams, and individual developers who contribute to open source.
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams do some incredible work. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
Automatically Rotating GitHub Tokens (So You Don’t Have To) - Shopify
GitHub personal access tokens (PATs) are like a key: a very, very large key that opens a very, very wide door. Long-lived tokens that have all the access of a developer’s account won’t just cause a leak—it’ll be a flood. Here’s how we rotate tokens automatically, and how you can do t too.
Useful Accessibility And Usability Examples To Help Improve Your Designs — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Thomas Bohm shares strategies and methods to tackle some common graphic communication problems and gives you insights into how to improve accessibility and usability and make your designs much better.
Enhance your collaboration experience
Vercel Preview Deployments
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[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote.
Progress on the Block Protocol
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more “Progress on the Block Protocol”
Taking The Stress Out Of Design System Management — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Masha goes over five tips that make it easier to manage a design system while increasing its effectiveness. This short guide is aimed at smaller teams.
Deployment Protection: Added security controls now available on all plans
Deployment protection on all plans - Secure your deployment previews and create shareable links to share with collaborators
Data Reprocessing Pipeline in Asset Management Platform @Netflix
At Netflix, we built the asset management platform (AMP) as a centralized service to organize, store and discover the digital media assets created during the movie production. Studio applications use…
The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
A discussion about IP blocking: why we see it, what it is, what it does, who it affects, and why it’s such a problematic way to address content online.
Closing out 2022 with our latest Impact Report
Our Impact Report is an annual summary highlighting how we are trying to build a better Internet and the progress we are making on our environmental, social, and governance priorities.
How Cloudflare advocates for a better Internet
In this blog we outline how we advocate, across the many jurisdictions where we operate, for a better Internet, in our engagement with governments and regulators.
Everything you might have missed during Cloudflare's Impact Week 2022
And that’s a wrap! Impact Week 2022 has come to a close. Over the last week, Cloudflare announced new commitments in our mission to help build a better Internet, including delivering Zero Trust services for the most vulnerable voices and for critical infrastructure providers.
Helping build a safer Internet by measuring BGP RPKI Route Origin Validation
Is BGP safe yet? If the question needs asking, then it isn't. But how far the Internet is from this goal is what we set out to answer.
Working to help the HBCU Smart Cities Challenge
Learn how Cloudflare is empowering the HBCU Smart Cities Challenge
Introducing Cloudflare's Third Party Code of Conduct
We are excited to share our Third Party Code of Conduct, specifically formulated with our suppliers, resellers and other partners in mind.
The latest from Cloudflare's seventeen Employee Resource Groups
The ERGs at Cloudflare have helped us realize the power of community and how critical it is for hybrid work.
Release Radar
We promised we’d be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I…
What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT. - High Scalability -
DALL-E picture generated from the answer. I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed. Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the kind of answer delivered with a radiant smile calculated to offend no one yet still sounds comprehensiv
Run it XOR use it, part two
Boosting Productivity For Designers With Efficient Tools — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Ashish Bogawat shares some of his favorite ways how to boost productivity and do things faster, better, and probably more fun by using efficient tools and workflows.
Build a powerful notification system with Next.js and Knock
Notifications on Vercel
Partnering with civil society to track Internet shutdowns with Radar Alerts and API
Learn more on how Cloudflare works with civil society organizations to provide tools to track Internet shutdowns using Radar Alerts and API.
A new, configurable and scalable version of Geo Key Manager, now available in Closed Beta
We’re excited to announce a new version of Geo Key Manager — one that allows customers to define boundaries by country, by a region, or by a standard, such as “only store my private keys in FIPS compliant data centers” — now available in Closed Beta.
Cloudflare is joining the AS112 project to help the Internet deal with misdirected DNS queries
Cloudflare is participating in the AS112 project, becoming an operator of the loosely coordinated, distributed sink of the reverse lookup (PTR) queries for RFC 1918 addresses, dynamic DNS updates and other ambiguous addresses.
How Cloudflare helps next-generation markets
The speed of an Internet connection is more about decreasing real-world latency than adding underutilized bandwidth.
Applying Human Rights Frameworks to our approach to abuse
Cloudflare launched its first Human Rights Policy in 2021, formally stating our commitment to respect human rights under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)
How Linear made the most of a DDoS
A conversation with the small, but mighty web team about why they made Figma files their homepage, and how they unintentionally threw the Figma party of the year.
Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub.
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now push protect their custom patterns
With just one click, admins in GitHub Advanced Security organizations can protect their custom patterns on push.
How To Prioritize User Security When Collecting Offline Data — Smashing Magazine
Concerns over online privacy and security are nothing new. In this article, Suzanne Scacca explores how the right CSV importer can help businesses better prioritize user security.
Vercel Edge Functions
Historical announcement for the Edge Functions GA release, updated with current guidance for Vercel Functions, Fluid compute, and the Edge Runtime.