From experiment to launch: how data shaped a new comments experience
How we tested, iterated, and rolled out updates to comments in Figma
Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?
When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn’t just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration.
Cloud, Load, and Modular Code: What 2022 Looks Like for Shopify - Shopify
Shopify CTO Allan Leinwand outlines some of the company's biggest engineering priorities for 2022.
Building The Real App With React Query — Smashing Magazine
You probably know how annoying it could be to handle different states, if you have ever built React applications that use asynchronous data. In this article, Georgii Perepecho explains the most common React Query features that you need to be familiar with when creating a real-life application that is stable when testing.
Tomonari Sato: Why I joined Cloudflare and why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in Japan
I’m excited to announce that I recently joined Cloudflare in Japan as Vice-President and Managing Director, to help build and expand our customer, partner base, and presence in Japan
Tonga’s likely lengthy Internet outage
The latest Internet outage, in the South Pacific country of Tonga (with 169 islands), is still ongoing. It started with the large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an uninhabited volcanic island of the Tongan archipelago on Friday, January 14, 2022
Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4
We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google.
Upcoming Online Workshops: January – May 2022 — Smashing Magazine
What goes into creating a successful design system? How can you take your testing workflow to the next level? And what smart interface design patterns could help you enhance your UIs? Let’s figure it out. With our [online workshops on front-end and UX](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops).
How open source is supporting NASA’s new eyes in space
With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science.
FOQS: Making a distributed priority queue disaster-ready
Facebook Ordered Queueing Service (FOQS) is a fully managed, distributed priority queueing service used for reliable message delivery among many services. FOQS has evolved from a regional deployment into a geo-distributed, global deployment to help ensure that data stored within logical queues is highly available, even through large-scale disaster scenarios. Migrating to a global architecture
Freebie: Wayfinding Icon Sets (164 Icons, PNG, SVG, AI, EPS) — Smashing Magazine
Every once in a while, we publish [freebies](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/freebies) related to different occasions and themes. We hope that with this icon set, everyone will be able to find their own use case for these icons in particular. Today, we present to you three icon sets designed by the creative folks at GraphicSurf — all free for personal and commercial use.
Cloudflare customers on Free plans can now also get real-time DDoS alerts
We’re excited to announce that customers using our Free plan can now get real-time alerts about HTTP DDoS attacks that were automatically detected and mitigated by Cloudflare
The 60 Hottest Front-end Tools of 2021
A complete list of the most popular front-end tools in 2021, according to the Web Tools Weekly newsletter. See which resources made the list.
Designing Tinder - High Scalability -
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
Modern Fluid Typography Using CSS Clamp — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Adrian Bece will explore fluid typography principles, use-cases, best practices, implementation with CSS clamp function and how to calculate the right parameters. He’ll also show you how to address some accessibility concerns and watch out for one important issue that you cannot fix as of yet, but have to be aware of regardless.
Some ways DNS can break
Some ways DNS can break
A Workers optimization that reduces your bill
Recently, we made an optimization to the Cloudflare Workers runtime which reduces the amount of time Workers need to spend in memory. We're passing the savings on to you for all your Unbound Workers
Using the CSS Me Not Bookmarklet
The CSS Me Not bookmarklet lets you see all of the CSS files on a site, notably unused files you might want to prevent from loading.
Mondrian Art in CSS From 5 Coders
I saw some Mondrian Art in CSS going around the other day and figured I'd go looking for others I've seen over the years and round them up.
Making Your First Custom Svelte Transition
The Svelte transition API provides a way to animate components when they enter or leave the document, including custom Svelte transitions.
Search at Shopify—Range in Data and Engineering is the Future - Shopify
At Shopify, we draw very few lines between “data” and “engineering” work. Instead we have “search” work.
Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
If you are a beginner at design and are willing to learn UI (user interface), UX (user experience) and product design, then this article is definitely for you! In [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/01/ten-tips-aspiring-designer-beginners-part1/), Luis Ouriach shared advice he wished he had when starting out in his career. In this second and last part of this series, Luis continues shar
8 Helpful Accessibility Links for January 2022
Every so often, I accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Accessibility is one of them! Here are 8 helpful accessibility links.
A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default Parameters
Sass offers functions and mixins that accept parameters. You can use Sass default parameters, that is, parameters that have a value even if you don't provide
Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021
Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻
How five open source communities are using GitHub Discussions
From answering questions about a new release to fielding feature requests, here’s how five open source communities use GitHub Discussions.
The Open Source Software Security Summit: securing the world’s code together
My colleague Stormy Peters and I are proud to represent GitHub at the White House’s Open Source Software Security Summit.
Building A Web Code Editor — Smashing Magazine
If you’re a developer who’s thinking about building a platform that requires a code editor in one form or another, then this article is for you. This article explains how to create a web code editor that displays the result in real time with the help of some HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle
You know how you can get cardboard boxes that come totally flat? You fold ‘em up and tape ‘em to make them into a useful box. Then when it’s time to recycle
Open Source & Sustainability
I don't feel confident operating or maintaining open source. That makes me scared of it, and my fear makes me avoid doing it at all.
Netlify Identity for Jamstack Aiuthentication
Netlify Identity is a robust offering that provides authentication on a Jamstack site. It’s super easy to enable and opens up a bunch of possibilities.
How we ship GitHub Mobile every week
Learn how the GitHub Mobile Team automates their release process with GitHub Actions.
That Old Certificate Expired and Started an Outage. This is What Happened Next - Shopify
In distributed systems, there’s plenty of occasions for things to go wrong. This is why resiliency and redundancy are important. But no matter the systems you put in place, no matter whether you did or didn’t touch your deployments, issues might arise. It makes it critical to acknowledge the near misses: the situations where something could have gone wrong and the situations where something did, b
Stabilize, Modularize, Modernize: Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases
When do you need to overhaul a large code base to address tech debt? What is the best way to address widespread inconsistencies and outdated patterns? How can you make significant architectural improvements to a complex application while still continuing to ship features? These were questions we grappled with at the beginning of 2020, when…
How To Hire For Digital Accessibility Roles — Smashing Magazine
Accessibility must be a permanent program within organizations, much like security. There are many ways to increase your team’s capacity for accessibility and it’s less important where you start than it is that you do start. Accessibility must be a permanent program within organizations, much like security. You wouldn’t just do one round of security testing and consider it taken care of. In this a
Former R&D Engineer Wins Round 2 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare Wins at the Patent Office
In April 2021, Cloudflare relaunched Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art search contest. Here is the latest case update, along with our second round of winners.
Designing Instagram - High Scalability -
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
Make Beautiful Gradients
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021
In Q4, we observed a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks. The Manufacturing industry was the most targeted alongside a 5,800% increase in SNMP-based DDoS attacks and massive campaigns against VoIP providers around the world
The year ahead: a conversation with Soleio, Julie Zhuo, and May-Li Khoe
Reflections, predictions, and guidance for 2022
A Deep CSS Dive Into Radial And Conic Gradients — Smashing Magazine
CSS gradients are a useful CSS feature that can be used to create interesting UI effects or even help us in drawing something without the need to create HTML elements for it. In this article, we’ll be taking a closer look at two gradients: `conic-gradient` and `radial-gradient`. You’ll see how each one of them works in detail, what the differences and similarities are between them, how and where t
Cloudflare Innovation Weeks 2021
As we start planning our 2022 Innovation Weeks, we are reflecting back on the highlights from each of these weeks
Miniflare 2.0: fully-local development and testing for Workers
We're thrilled to announce the release of the next major version: a more modular, lightweight and accurate Miniflare 2.0
Changing A Tire On A Moving Car (Or How To Improve Product Roadmaps) — Smashing Magazine
Product roadmaps are often treated as a series of checkboxes. But they are more than that. Having a loose product landscape offers a flexible way to be strategic and decisive about how to chip away at the big picture. Not dealing with can eventually leave you stranded on the roadside without a spare to keep you going. In this article, Scott Himmer explains how internal partnerships, research, desi
A New Container Query Polyfill That Just Works
There is an easy-to-use CSS container query polyfill now. You essentially conditionally load it and forget about it. Then write spec-compliant container queries code.
Internet shut down in Kazakhstan amid unrest
In Kazakhstan, the year had barely got going when yesterday disruptions of Internet access ended up in a nationwide Internet shutdown from today, January 5, 2022
How The Gambia lost access to the Internet for more than 8 hours
On the morning of January 4, 2022, citizens of The Gambia woke up to a country-wide Internet outage
Notes on Josh Comeau's Custom CSS Reset
We recently talked with Elad Shechter on his new CSS reset, and shortly after that Josh Comeau blogged his.
Support Multiple Frameworks in a Monorepo
We're going to make a Yarn workspaces-based monorepo that supports multiple frameworks, including React, Vue, Svelte, and Angular.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2021
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
How the community powers GitHub Advanced Security with CodeQL queries
The GitHub Security Lab’s CodeQL bounty program fuels GitHub Advanced Security with queries written by the open source community.
Why might you run your own DNS server?
Why might you run your own DNS server?
Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this article (the first part in a series of two), Luis Ouriach shares advice that helped him grow and become a better designer, and that he wishes he had when starting out in his career. These tips come from his experience as a user interface and product designer for close to ten years, and if you’re starting just now, then read on!
Jetpack Features We Love and Use at CSS-Tricks
We use and love Jetpack around here. It's a WordPress plugin that brings a whole suite of functionality to your site ranging from security to marketing with
Should CSS Override Default Browser Styles?
Every CSS ruleset you write will likely changes the defaults of something. But should CSS override browser defaults defaults?
CSS-Based Fingerprinting
Fingerprinting is bad. It's a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. JavaScript has
How to Create a Browser Extension
I’ll bet you are using browser extensions right now. Some of them are extremely popular and useful, like ad blockers, password managers, and PDF viewers.
Designing WhatsApp - High Scalability -
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
Composition-Based Design System In Figma — Smashing Magazine
Figma has advanced enough where it now supports some powerful concepts that can help with the flexibility and maintainability of a design system. In this article, Sasha explains why she finds the Systems Designer position so rewarding — and it’s not only because of how fast certain tools have developed to help her master challenges she faces in her work projects. **Editor’s Note**: This article co
