Turbopack: High-performance bundler for React & TypeScript
Introducing Turbopack, the Rust-based successor to Webpack. A high-performance bundler for React Server Components and TypeScript codebases.
Vercel acquires Splitbee to expand first-party analytics
Introducing the next generation of Vercel Analytics
And here's another one: the Next.js Edge Runtime becomes the fourth full-stack framework supported by Cloudflare Pages
You can now deploy SSR Next.js applications to the Cloudflare Pages platform ⚡️
Is There Too Much CSS Now?
As front-end developers, we've wished for a lot of things over the years — ways to center things in CSS, encapsulate styles, set an element’s aspect ratio,
The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers - High Scalability -
There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. Vertical separation would be new to the cloud industry. Is it a good idea? Would it actually solve any pro
From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin
We’re sharing lessons learned from shifting our Android development from Java to Kotlin. Kotlin is a popular language for Android development and offers some key advantages over Java. As of today, our Android codebase contains over 10 million lines of Kotlin code. We’re open sourcing various examples and utilities we used to manipulate Kotlin code […]
State Of CSS Survey: Influence The Future Of CSS — Smashing Magazine
The annual survey for anyone who writes CSS, [State of CSS](https://stateofcss.com/en-us/?source=smashing_magazine_css_survey), is nearing the end of its response period for 2022. The survey is available in many different languages and all questions are optional.
Page Shield can now watch for malicious outbound connections made by third-party JavaScript code
Starting today, Page Shield can now watch for malicious outbound connections made by third-party JavaScript code
Fancy Image Decorations: Masks and Advanced Hover Effects
Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part series! We are still decorating images without any extra elements and pseudo-elements. I hope you already took the time
Build a game this November with Game Off 2022
Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉
Git Merge 2022 – that’s a wrap! 🎬
Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.
Hubble: Our Tool for Encapsulating and Extending Security Tools - Shopify
With the end of office centricity at Shopify, suddenly the work of securing our devices got a lot more important, and a lot more difficult. So, we built Hubble.
Futuristic CSS — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Sacha Greif tries to anticipate future CSS trends and takes a look at some far-fetched and futuristic CSS features that might one day make their way to the browser.
Build an interactive WebGL experience with Next.js
Use interactive code sandboxes to build the Next.js Conf registration prism game.
Cloudflare Workers and micro-frontends: made for one another
In this blog-post we demonstrate how hosting and combining multiple server-side rendered micro-frontends on Cloudflare Workers offer a highly scalable, high performance solution to these problems
Responsive Animations for Every Screen Size and Device
Before I career jumped into development, I did a bunch of motion graphics work in After Effects. But even with that background, I still found animating on the
Instant Articles, Proprietary Syndication, and a Web Built on User Fidelity Preferences
I love it when there's a sense of synergy in the blogosphere. First, I caught Nick Heer's coverage of Meta ending support for Instant Articles, its
Making multiplayer more reliable
Design has always been a team sport. These improvements make sure everyone is on the same page.
Conway's Law
Unboxing fork improvements
We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.
Improving navigation for GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions changed how developers automate workflows with GitHub. Today, we’re introducing a new navigation to manage your GitHub Actions experience, improving discoverability and accessibility as well as opening up future feature opportunities.
How to Structure Your Data Team for Maximum Influence - Shopify
We share the framework that’s worked best for structuring our data teams and that's empowered them to influence business decisions and drive impact.
What’s New In DevTools: Halloween Edition 🎃 — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Patrick Brosset gives an update on the most impactful new features that are now available in DevTools, across Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Edge.
Colocate your edge to your data on Vercel
Historical post about regional execution for edge compute, updated with current guidance for configuring Vercel Function regions near your data source.
Making peering easy with the new Cloudflare Peering Portal
Cloudflare's peering portal allows users to log in with existing PeeringDB credentials and request peering sessions with cloudflare direct from the portal
How to Make a Folder “Slit” Effect With CSS
When you put something — say a regular sheet of paper — in a manilla folder, a part of that thing might peek out of the folder a little bit. The same sort of
Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top 100 Packages and Their Dependencies - Shopify
As packages frequently depend on other packages, could some of these big (more than 180M downloads) packages depend on small (less than 180M downloads) packages?
Understanding Privacy: A New Smashing Book Is Here — Smashing Magazine
Meet Understanding Privacy, our brand new Smashing Book to make sense of privacy, and learn how to create inclusive, safe and privacy-aware digital experiences. eBook now available, print shipping in early December.
Internet disruptions overview for Q3 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, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
Why are my PostgreSQL updates getting slower?
Updates getting slower is a frequent complaint of PostgreSQL users. What is behind it and how can I avoid slow updates?
Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.
OCP Summit 2022: Open hardware for AI infrastructure
At OCP Summit 2022, we’re announcing Grand Teton, our next-generation platform for AI at scale that we’ll contribute to the OCP community. We’re also sharing new innovations designed to support data centers as they advance to support new AI technologies: A new, more efficient version of Open Rack. Our Air-Assisted Liquid Cooling (AALC) – design. […]
Next.js Conf 2022: Iterate, scale, and deliver a great UX
Learn how to iterate, scale, and deliver a great UX from the experts speaking at this year’s Next.js Conf. Register for the online event today.
Pure CSS Bezier Curve Motion Paths
Besides being elegant, Bezier curves have nice mathematical properties due to their definition and construction. No wonder they are widely used in so many areas! Now, how about using Bezier curves as motion paths with CSS?
GitHub at the 77th United Nations General Assembly
Read about how the GitHub Social Impact, Tech for Social Good and Policy teams participated in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including events we hosted with the World Health Organization and the UN Development Programme.
5 tips for embedding security into your workflows
Having a robust security plan is key to innovation. These tips will empower you to gain the upper hand on cyberattacks, so you can ship quickly and innovate with ease.
WordPress Full-Site Editing: A Deep Dive Into The New Feature — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Nick Schäferhoff will take a deep dive into WordPress Full-Site Editing, examine the tools it provides for theme development, and provide a tutorial on how to use it to make changes to your site.
Fancy Image Decorations: Single Element Magic
As the title says, we are going to decorate images! There’s a bunch of other articles out there that talk about this, but what we’re covering here is quite a
OSI’s Deep Dive is an essential discussion on the future of AI and open source
GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI.
Some Things I Took Away From An Event Apart 2022 in Denver
An Event Apart 2022 Denver wrapped up yesterday. And while I was unable to make it to all three days this time, I did catch yesterday's action — and it was
Our approach to security at speed
Learn about how the Figma security team helps us ship products securely, without impacting the pace of development.Our approach to security at speed.
How we use data
Data is a vital component in how we improve Figma day by day. Learn more about what kind of data we use and how we use it.
Introducing GitHub Advanced Security SIEM integrations for security professionals
Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) alerts with Security Information and Events Management (SIEM) tools. Check out the integrations, and read more about getting started.
The Story of Scalar
New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar went from a rough VFS for Git successor to a fully-integrated Git tool, with all of the engineering lessons learned in the process.
On the Importance of Pull Request Discipline - Shopify
Unorganized pull requests are the bane of large codebases. Follow Yash's tips to prevent your PRs from getting roasted in the group chat.
Effective Communication For Everyday Meetings — Smashing Magazine
In this article about conducting productive meetings, Andrii Zhdan will give you a step-by-step guide on preparing a solid meeting structure that will let you follow the original plan and reach the meeting goals, and he will also share a few tips based on his design experience.
Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3
In Q3, DDoS attacks increased by 111% YoY, Cloudflare auto-mitigated a 2.5 Tbps attack targeting a Minecraft server as multi-terabit scale DDoS attacks become increasingly frequent. Read more in our 2022 Q3 DDoS Report
Mobile Developer Experience at Slack
At Slack, the goal of the Mobile Developer Experience Team (DevXp) is to empower developers to ship code with confidence while enjoying a pleasant and productive engineering experience. We use metrics and surveys to measure productivity and developer experience, such as developer sentiment, CI stability, time to merge (TTM), and test failure rate. We have…
pgbouncer: Types of PostgreSQL connection pooling
Connections are not free. Conserve your resources - find out about connection pooling in PostgreSQL with pgbouncer.
The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.
View GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces
Developers can now view GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces. The new Microsoft SARIF Viewer extension gives developers direct access to their code scanning results, making remediating vulnerabilities easier than ever.
On the go with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile (public beta)
Stay connected and up to date on your work with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile, now in public beta.
A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how I use it on this blog.
How to Write Code Without Having to Read It - Shopify
Do we need to read code before editing it? In order to safely fix a bug or update a feature, we may need to learn some things about the code. However, we’d prefer to learn only that information.
Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization — Smashing Magazine
Climate change and sustainability are increasing concerns for digital organizations, as well as individuals working in tech. In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways we can raise awareness and effect change within an organization to create a more positive environmental impact.
Assembly within! BPF tail calls on x86 and ARM
We have first adopted the BPF tail calls when building our XDP-based packet processing pipeline. BPF tail calls have served us well since then. But they do have their caveats
Delightful UI Animations With Shared Element Transitions API (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Adrian Bece will show how to create same-document page transitions for Single Page Apps using Shared Element Transitions API and check out its future implementation and potential for creating cross-document transitions in Multi-Page Apps.
Introducing OG Image Generation: Fast, dynamic social card images at the Edge
Announcing Vercel OG Image Generation, a new library for generating dynamic social card images.
Cloudflare Pages gets even faster with Early Hints
Announcing support for sending Early Hints from your Cloudflare Pages projects
Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes
Fluid typography is a fancy way of “describing font properties, such as size or line height, that scale fluidly according to the size of the viewport”. It’s
