Technical Writing for Developers
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++, Dart — there are so many programming languages out there and you may even be totally fluent in several of them! But
Introducing Focus, a new open source Gradle plugin
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 11th, 2022 - High Scalability -
Never fear, HighScalability is here! Every cell a universe. Most detailed image of a human cell to date. @microscopicture Other images considered: one byte of RAM in 1946; visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes; Cloudflare using lava lamps to generate cryptographic keys; 5MB of data looked like in 1966 My Stuff: * Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to help keep this stuff going. *
Statements Vs. Expressions
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us solve practical problems.
A Look At Remix And The Differences With Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Let’s talk about Remix, the framework to create JavaScript projects using server-side rendering. Let’s go through its main features and concepts and see the similarities and differences with Next.js. Remix became open-source not so long ago, and it has a promising future. Let’s see how it evolves, which features are added, which related projects are created to improve the developer experience, and
Monitoring tiny web services
Monitoring tiny web services
NIST’s pleasant post-quantum surprise
On Tuesday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced which post-quantum cryptography they will standardize.
Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada
An outage at one of the largest ISPs in Canada, Rogers Communications, started earlier today, July 8, 2022, and is ongoing (eight hours and counting), and is impacting businesses and consumers.
Automatic Signed Exchanges may dramatically boost your site visitor numbers
Automatic Signed Exchanges may dramatically boost your site visitor numbers
A Five-Step Approach To The Metaverse — Smashing Magazine
The hype surrounding the metaverse is making many companies and people, including designers, experience FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). As a designer, you may be tasked with figuring out how your company should approach the metaverse or thinking about designing for the metaverse. In this article, Lyndon Cerejo will discuss a few steps he recommends before diving headfirst into any design for the metav
Announcing support for WASI on Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are announcing experimental support for WASI (the WebAssembly System Interface) on Cloudflare Workers and support within wrangler2 to make it a joy to work with
New WAF intelligence feeds
Cloudflare is expanding our WAF’s threat intelligence capabilities by adding four new managed IP lists that can be used as part of any custom firewall rule
Top tips for creating a healthy and sustainable open source community
Read about the six key themes, and tips for each, that ensure sustainable and healthy open source communities.
Shopify’s Technical Interview Process: What to Expect and How to Prepare - Shopify
This guide pulls back the curtain on what to expect during the interview process for technical roles at Shopify and sets you up for success with tips for each stage.
An Accessibility-First Approach To Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine
Using a data visualization case study, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach led us down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, we will highlight how we used the seemingly constraining [Web Content Accessibility Standards](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) (WCAG) to become an empowering factor in our design process. We will also discuss how this
DDoS attack trends for 2022 Q2
Welcome to our 2022 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network
GitHub Availability Report: June 2022
In June, we experienced four incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub.com services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted several GitHub.com services in May.
Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community.
Watch Meta’s engineers discuss QUIC and TCP innovations for our network
With more than 75 percent of our internet traffic set to use QUIC and HTTP/3 together, QUIC is slowly moving to become the de facto protocol used for internet communication at Meta. For Meta’s data center network, TCP remains the primary network transport protocol that supports thousands of services on top of it. As our […]
Shopify and Open Source: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship - Shopify
Shopify and Rails have grown up together. Both were in their infancy in 2004, and our CEO (Tobi) was one of the first contributors and a member of Rails Core. Shopify was built on top of Rails, and our engineering culture is rooted in the Rails Doctrine, from developer happiness to the omakase menu, sharp knives, and majestic monoliths. We embody the doctrine pillars. Shopify's success is due, in
Designing Effective Pricing Plans UX — Smashing Magazine
Pricing pages can be complex and confusing. Let
Internet disruptions overview for Q2 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools.
Making Page Shield malicious code alerts more actionable
In this post we go over improvements to script status, metadata and categorization.
Handling Bonus Programs in SQL
Learn how to address the issue of bonus programs in SQL, improve your understanding of PostgreSQL, and calculate bonus points efficiently
The Story Behind Shopify’s Isospin Tooling - Shopify
You may have read that Shopify has built an in-house cloud development platform named Spin. In that post, we covered the history of the platform and how it powers our everyday work. In this post, we’ll take a deeper dive into one specific aspect of Spin: Isospin, Shopify’s systemd-based tooling that forms the core of how we run applications within Spin. The initial implementation of Spin used the
How To Build A Localized Website With Hugo And Strapi — Smashing Magazine
Strapi is an open-source headless content management system (CMS) built with Node.js, and Hugo builds sites pretty fast, with average site builds completed in a second or less. In this tutorial, Zara Cooper explains how to use Strapi’s Internationalization feature to create content in multiple languages. You’ll also learn how to create a Hugo site that consumes localized content from Strapi.
A July 4 technical reading list
Here’s a short list of recent technical blog posts to give you something to read today
Accelerating UX Maturity With A Breakthrough Project — Smashing Magazine
In this article, John Scott Bowie shares the story of 40 years of attempts to advance corporate UX maturity that — after numerous initiatives with marginal results — culminated in a breakthrough project that accelerated a company’s UX maturity from “Emergent” to “User-Driven” in less than a year.
Optimizing TCP for high WAN throughput while preserving low latency
In this post, we describe how we modified the Linux kernel to optimize for both low latency and high throughput concurrently
Collective Nouns for the Web
Melanie Sumner has this super-specific collection of web-related nouns for describing a group or set of something. You know how there's a school or fish or a
Extend your dependency information in the GitHub Dependency Graph with new GitHub Actions
New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph.
How the GitHub Security Team uses projects and GitHub Actions for planning, tracking, and more
Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly.
Software Visualization — Challenge, Accepted
TL;DR Architectural diagrams are the bread and butter of software design and a foundational tool for communication and collaboration on software development. At Spotify, we have an incredibly complex network of thousands of interlinked software systems owned by hundreds of teams, so having a simple way to visualize these connections is essential. While capturing all of our software in one large di
What it Took to Scale Spotify’s Marketing Efforts
At Spotify, we’ve tried to uphold the tradition of running one major holiday marketing campaign at the end of each year. The campaigns typically run on various platforms such as the Spotify Homepage and the Premium page.
Managed Transforms: templated HTTP header modifications
Customize multiple HTTP headers with a single click using Cloudflare Managed Transforms
Digital design is now a real job
The next decade of design jobs just got an upgrade.
Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects
High-quality Git commits are the key to a maintainable and collaborative open- or closed-source project. Learn strategies to improve and use commits to streamline your development process.
What to do when your open source project becomes a community?
Maintainers answer your questions about how to manage an open source project that grows into a community.
Announcing the summer 2022 MLH Fellowship GitHub Contributors
Meet the 2022 MLH Fellowship cohort! This 12-week internship alternative is for aspiring software engineers, and powered by GitHub.
How to Build Trust as a New Manager in a Fully Remote Team - Shopify
A 90-day plan to help managers develop a way of working remotely and gain mastery over the tools and skills that build trust in the new environment.
Jump Into July (2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome the new month with some inspiring desktop wallpapers. Created by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for July 2022. You can click on every image to see a larger preview. We respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore t
Live-patching security vulnerabilities inside the Linux kernel with eBPF Linux Security Module
Learn how to patch Linux security vulnerabilities without rebooting the hardware and how to tighten the security of your Linux operating system with eBPF Linux Security Module
Internet Explorer, we hardly knew ye
With the recent retirement of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, we analyzed Internet Explorer traffic trends. Breaking the traffic down by bot score revealed much of this traffic is “likely automated”
Transaction anomalies with SELECT FOR UPDATE
This article shows how surprising transaction anomalies can happen with SELECT FOR UPDATE and what you can to to avoid them.
The Chromium super (inline cache) type confusion
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-1134, a type confusion in Chrome that I reported in March 2022, which allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site. I’ll also look at some past vulnerabilities of this type and some implementation details of inline cache in V8, the JavaScript engine of Chrome.
Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
Navigating Recurring Payments in India: A Backend Perspective - Shopify
To address the new RBI framework for recurring payments in Shopify’s billing platform, we worked with a local payment provider that could accommodate both card-based payments as well as a local payment method called Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
Hertzbleed explained
Hertzbleed is a brand-new family of side-channel attacks that monitors changes on CPU frequency
Help Shape the Future of CSS-Tricks!
Head's up! The survey closed on July 12, 2022. We got tons of responses — thanks to everyone for helping us out!
What’s new in Figma: June 2022
A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma and FigJam
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub Enterprise Server
The recent changes to improve protocol security on GitHub.com are now coming to GitHub Enterprise Server, starting with version 3.6.
Notes on running containers with bubblewrap
Notes on running containers with bubblewrap
Remote Development at Slack
In this article, “remote development environments” refer to AWS EC2 instances where engineers make code changes and can see a running Slack application with those changes. For years, engineers at Slack isolated and tested their changes by running microcosms of the Slack application on their local computers. This was difficult for many reasons: it involved…
Smashing Podcast Episode 48 With Stephanie Eckles: Is Sass Still Relevant? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we ask if Sass is still relevant in 2022 and if it adds any value modern CSS workflows. Vitaly talks to expert Stephanie Eckles to find out.
Vercel Edge Middleware: Dynamic at the speed of static (historical)
Execute custom logic at the moment of request, pushing personalization to the edge with exceptional performance.
New partner program for SMB agencies & hosting partners now in closed beta
Today, we want to reinforce our commitment to our hosting ecosystem and small business partners that leverage Cloudflare to help bring a better Internet experience to their customers.
Network performance update: Cloudflare One Week June 2022
We’re excited to share that Cloudflare has the fastest provider in 1,290 of the top 3,000 most reported networks, up from 1,280 even one month ago during Platform Week
Identifying content gaps in our documentation
As a technical writer, it’s pretty common to do the thing you’re documenting. After all, it’s really hard to write step-by-step instructions if you haven’t been through those steps. It’s also a great opportunity to provide feedback to our product teams
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Erlang and Elixir packages!
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.
Highlights from Git 2.37
The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.
