Does WWW still belong in URLs?
For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to
ICYMI: A look back at GitHub Universe 2022
Catch up on everything we announced and see what else happened during this year’s GitHub Universe conference that took place November 9-10.
A reader asks how to avoid working for evil
Short stories from outage reports
CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider
Image sliders (also called carousels) are everywhere. There are a lot of CSS tricks to create the common slider where the images slide from left to right (or
GitHub, accessibility, and the disability divide
We just published our vision for GitHub accessibility at accessibility.github.com. Here’s the TL;DR: the prime directive of the GitHub accessibility program is to empower people with disabilities to build cool technology.
Introducing Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 2nd, 2022 - High Scalability -
Never fear, HighScalability is here! 1958: An engineer wiring an early IBM computer 2021: An engineer wiring an early IBM quantum computer. @enclanglement My Stuff: * I'm proud to announce a completely updated and expanded version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10! This version adds 2x more coverage, with special coverage of AWS, Azure, GCP, and K8s. It has 482 mostly 5 star reviews on Amazon. Here
A couple of Rust error messages
A couple of Rust error messages
Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money
The Anatomy Of Themed Design System Components — Smashing Magazine
The world of design systems can be overwhelming sometimes. There’s a lot to take in when you get into that space! In this article, Dan Donald dives into a simple component and explores some issues, complexity, and power we can encounter.
Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries
I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It's still early days. They're already defined in the CSS Containment Module
How empowering developers helps teams ship secure software faster
AppSec expert Niroshan Rajadurai says putting developers at the center of everything will enable you to meet your security goals.
An enterprise account is coming to all Enterprise customers
Administrators, or enterprise owners, have the increased responsibility of managing their account and keeping it secure. We are excited to introduce what is new with enterprise accounts and what is coming soon.
FabUnit: A Smart Way To Control And Synchronize Typo And Space — Smashing Magazine
Today, we’ll take a look at the Sass function that does all the work for you — with no media queries, no breakpoints, and no design jumps. In this article, Fabienne Bielmann explains what FabUnit stands for and why she decided to create her very own responsive magic formula.
Shipping Spotify’s Culture: 5 Plugins (and 4 Principles) for Supercharging Developer Experience at Scale
ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the bundle subscription. Some of these commercial plugins began life as internal tools, built by Spotify developers, for Spotify developers. Other plugins in the bundle are brand new to the Backstage platform. But they all embody our ways of working — our secret sauce for improving developer experience at scale. And now that we’re s
An embeddable and customizable fiat-to-crypto onramp
Let customers instantly buy crypto within your Web3 app.
Adjusting pricing, introducing annual plans, and accelerating innovation
After not raising prices in our history, this was something we thought carefully about before deciding to do. While we have over a decade of network expansion and innovation under our belts, what may not be intuitive is that our goal is not to increase revenue from this change.
Using The New Constrained Layout In WordPress Block Themes
One of the main goals of the WordPress Site Editor (and, yes, that is now the “official” name) is to move basic block styling from CSS to structured JSON.
Enabling static analysis of SQL queries at Meta
UPM is our internal standalone library to perform static analysis of SQL code and enhance SQL authoring. UPM takes SQL code as input and represents it as a data structure called a semantic tree. Infrastructure teams at Meta leverage UPM to build SQL linters, catch user mistakes in SQL code, and perform data lineage analysis […]
Using Server Sent Events to Simplify Real-time Streaming at Scale - Shopify
We walk through how we implemented an SSE server that's scalable and load-balanced to simplify and improve a real-time data visualization application.
Endings And New Beginnings (December 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
December is almost here, so why not spread some holiday love across your devices? We’ve got some beautiful wallpapers to sweeten up the last days of the year.
DatoCMS builds 60% faster with a streamlined workflow
How Scale AI unifies design and performance with Next.js and Vercel
How Vercel helped justInCase Technologies cut their build time in half
With Next.js, Vercel, and Sanity, Loom empowers every team to iterate
Cloudflare partners to simplify China connectivity for corporate networks
Today we’re excited to announce expansion of our Cloudflare One product suite to tackle these problems, with the goal of creating the best SASE experience for users and organizations in China
Partition PostgreSQL: which partition did I INSERT my data into?
When partitioning in PostgreSQL, it's not obvious how to find the location of data afterwards. Here's some great partition tips and tricks.
How to Export Datadog Metrics for Exploration in Jupyter Notebooks - Shopify
A step-by-step guide for extracting Datadog metrics in Python for in-depth analysis in Jupyter Notebooks.
The Linux Kernel Key Retention Service and why you should use it in your next application
Many leaks happen because of software bugs and security vulnerabilities. In this post we will learn how the Linux kernel can help protect cryptographic keys from a whole class of potential security vulnerabilities: memory access violations.
To infinity and beyond: enabling the future of GitHub’s REST API with API versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
Color Formats in CSS
CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and more. Which option should we choose? This turns out to be a surprisingly important decision! In this article, we'll take a tour of color formats in CSS, and see which option will serve us best.
How to create impact through Meta’s research intern program
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An early look at Thanksgiving 2022 Internet trends
Yesterday, November 24, 2022, was Thanksgiving Day in the US. Last year, we saw how the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving. So, how was it this year?
Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet?
In this blog we'll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use of available IP space and introduce our soft-anycast technology
Why BGP communities are better than AS-path prepends
Routing on the Internet follows a few basic principles. Unfortunately not everything on the Internet is created equal, and prepending can do more harm than good. In this blog post we’ll talk about the problems that prepending aims to solve, and some alternative solutions
Our Solution for Measuring React Native Rendering Times - Shopify
After Shopify went all-in on React Native, we had to find a way to confirm our mobile apps are fast. The solution is an open-source @shopify/react-native-performance library, which measures rendering times in React Native apps.
Document Object Model (DOM) Geometry: A Beginner’s Introduction And Guide — Smashing Magazine
In this guide, Pearl Akpan analyzes the methods and properties that make user interface solutions such as infinite scrolling, animating elements on scroll, or even the popular drag and drop achievable, and afterward, dives into some practical use cases for them.
Why Cloudflare’s one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022
We are proud to share that Cloudflare has been named one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022 by Newsweek and Best Practice Institute (BPI)
How we detect route leaks and our new Cloudflare Radar route leak service
In this blog post, we will introduce our new system designed to detect route leaks and its integration on Cloudflare Radar and its public API.
The night of 1000 alerts (but only on the Linux boxes)
Edge Config: Ultra-low latency data at the edge
Historical announcement for Edge Config, a globally replicated data store for low-latency reads from Vercel Functions and Routing Middleware.
Exciting new GitHub features powering machine learning
Discover the exciting enhancements in GitHub that empower Machine Learning practitioners to do more.
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do remarkable things with it. ✨
Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta
We developed a new static analysis tool called Nullsafe that is used at Meta to detect NullPointerException (NPE) errors in Java code. Interoperability with legacy code and gradual deployment model were key to Nullsafe’s wide adoption and allowed us to recover some null-safety properties in the context of an otherwise null-unsafe language in a multimillion-line […]
Implementing Server-Driven UI Architecture on the Shop App - Shopify
Ashwin explains why and how we implemented server-driven UI in the Shop App’s Store Screen, and his experience working on the project as a Dev Degree intern.
Optimizing A Vue App — Smashing Magazine
Prioritizing performance when building our web apps improves the user experience and helps ensure they can be used by as many people as possible. In this article, Michelle Barker will walk you through some of the front-end optimization tips to keep our Vue apps as efficient as possible.
Taming the Cascade With BEM and Modern CSS Selectors
BEM. Like seemingly all techniques in the world of front-end development, writing CSS in a BEM format can be polarizing. But it is – at least in my Twitter
Welcome to the WIP
Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita on how to embrace (and enjoy) endless iteration
I Migrated from a Postgres Cluster to Distributed SQLite with LiteFS
Why and how I migrated from distributed postgres to distributed sqlite on kentcdodds.com
PTP: Timing accuracy and precision for the future of computing
Meta is deploying a timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), that will offer new levels of accuracy and precision to our networks and data centers. We believe PTP will become the global standard for keeping time in computer networks. PTP will benefit today’s products and services and will be a foundational technology behind the development […]
How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta
Implementing Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta allows us to synchronize the systems that drive our products and services down to nanosecond precision. PTP’s predecessor, Network Time Protocol (NTP), provided us with millisecond precision, but as we scale to more advanced systems on our way to building the next computing platform, the metaverse and AI, […]
A Guide To Keyboard Accessibility: JavaScript (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
This article is the second of two parts about a guide to making websites accessible to keyboard users. Here Cristian Diaz covers a toolset on JavaScript that you can mix into different components to create a great experience for keyboard users.
How Cloudflare instruments services using Workers Analytics Engine
Learn how Cloudflare uses our own Workers Analytics Engine product to capture analytics about our own products!
ICYMI: Developer Week 2022 announcements
This week we made over 30 announcements, in case you missed any here’s a quick round-up.
Send Cloudflare Workers logs to a destination of your choice with Workers Trace Events Logpush
Workers Trace Events Logpush gives new levels of visibility into Workers invocations, console.log messages and errors. It is now available to everyone on the Workers Paid and Enterprise plans!
Network performance update: Developer Week 2022
Cloudflare did the measurements to prove we’re the fastest developer platform, beating out all the other competition.
Doubling down on local development with Workers: Miniflare meets workerd
Today, we’re taking local development to the next level by releasing Miniflare 3, powered by the open-source workerd runtime, along with support for migrating existing dashboard projects and using real data locally.
Improving Workers TypeScript support: accuracy, ergonomics and interoperability
Today, we’re excited to announce the next major release of Workers TypeScript definitions with a bunch of improvements, and the open-sourcing of the new automatic generation scripts.
Twilio Segment Edge SDK powered by Cloudflare Workers
With Segment Edge SDK, built on Cloudflare Workers, developers can collect high-quality first-party data and use Segment Edge SDK to access real-time user profiles and state, to deliver personalized