
Unleash the power of creative limitation! Learn how constraints aren’t barriers but instead stepping stones to innovative design. Find out how to challenge unproductive restrictions and leverage the rest to your advantage.

Maintainer Month is a time for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. Over 31 days, 16 organizations came together to offer 42 activities convening and celebrating maintainers.

Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software.

Take part in All in for Maintainers’ new pilot program that helps open source project maintainers highlight ongoing efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities.

While compliance with accessibility checklists is essential, it doesn’t necessarily mean a pleasant experience. That’s why live sessions can give you lots of priceless insights.
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Slava Shestopalov Eugene Shykiriavyi·June 7, 2023Design & UX 
With the HTTP/3 RFC celebrating its 1st birthday, we examined HTTP version usage trends between May 2022 - May 2023. We found that HTTP/3 usage by browsers continued to grow, but that search engine and social media bots continued to effectively ignore the latest version of the web’s core protocol

We’ve launched the beta of code scanning support for Swift. This launch, paired with our launch of Kotlin support in November, means that CodeQL covers both IOS and Android development languages, bringing a heightened level of security to the mobile application development process.
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Walker Chabbott, Pierre Tempel·June 6, 2023Security 
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️🌈

This article highlights practical design guidelines and techniques to get around frequent and painful UX challenges with tables and grids.

TinaCMS adopts Visual Editing

For the ninth anniversary, we want to focus on access to affordable cyber security tools and what we have learned protecting the most vulnerable communities

A tool to help you keep your open source catalog organized and up to date.

Some blogging myths

In the second part of the series, Kirill looks at the usefulness of primitive objects, exploring how reducing capabilities could be a benefit for your project.


A guided tour of Cloudflare Zaraz new exciting premium feature, available for Workers paid account: Worker Variables, that allows to pipe a Worker’s response to third-party tools

Could we use our Git repository as the source of truth for operational tasks, and somehow reconcile changes with our real-world view?

As Artificial Intelligence becomes more widespread, so too does the adoption of digital agents and voice interactions. Explore the power of mixed reality systems and multimodal communication to enhance collaboration between consultants and clients, transforming advisory services.
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Hannah Kuhne Madlaina Kalunder·June 2, 2023Engineering 
Pricing a product or service is one of the more challenging aspects of product development. Pricing is an inexact science, and chances are you will not get it right the first time. But where do you even begin? Let’s explore the important considerations that go into product pricing.

Learn how and why we designed the Vercel virtual product tour to address some of the most prominent needs in our marketing funnel.

Regional Tiered Cache provides an additional layer of caching for Enterprise customers who have a global traffic footprint and want to serve content faster by avoiding network latency when there is a cache miss in a lower-tier, resulting in an upper-tier fetch in a data center located far away

Cloudflare will deprecate Railgun on January 2024

Experts explain how to recruit and onboard co-maintainers.

The open-source Git project just released Git 2.41. Take a look at our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.41.

Thanks to the Open UI working community group, there’s a new element on the horizon, , that will make styling this type of form control a whole lot better. You’re going to walk through an early implementation of this new experimental element by creating a pattern that you would never have thought possible with CSS alone — a radial selection menu.

In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences. At Spotify, our Home serves as a personalized surface where users retrieve familiar content and discover new content tailored to their preferences. We are constantly trying to optimize the Home experience to provide more value to our users; however, doing so can be tricky.

At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world. Our Messaging team powers and creates delightful foreground and background communications across the Spotify experience, experimenting with and tailoring the perfect journey for each user across our platform. Today we are able to send messages through WhatsApp, SMS, email, push notifications, contextual in-line form
EDEuan Dowers, Senior ML Engineer·June 1, 2023AI & ML 
TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across our entire organization in five regions where our main production workloads are in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). If we detect suspicious behavior in our workloads, we need to be able to quickly analyze it and determine if something malicious has happened. Today we leverage commercial solutions to
MHMarcus Hallberg, Security Engineer·June 1, 2023SRE & Ops 
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers might be for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar for June 2023. Enjoy!

Fix ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding - Wrong encoding causes data corruption in PostgreSQL. How to fix bad encoding.

Some advise for people who still consider themselves junior developers



Let's take a look from the perspective of an Oxy application developer, and then we can discuss the implementation of the framework and some of the interesting design decisions we made
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Wbartlett, Fisher·May 26, 2023Frontend 
Musician Jesse Cohen explains how he harnessed the corporate lingua franca (and the Google Meet integration for Figma) to launch his band’s latest album.

This article provides practical tips for improving the handoff process between design and development in product development. The guidance covers effective communication, documentation, design details, version control, and plugin usage.

We are constantly monitoring and optimizing the performance and resource utilization of our systems. Recently, we noticed that some of our TCP sessions were allocating more memory than expected. This blog post describes in detail the root cause of the problem and shows the test results of a solution

Help quantify the state of enterprise open source by taking the 2023 OSPO survey.

In this blog, I’ll look at CVE-2022-46395, a variant of CVE-2022-36449 (Project Zero issue 2327), and use it to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root privileges from the untrusted app domain on an Android phone that uses the Arm Mali GPU. I’ll also explain how root cause analysis of CVE-2022-36449 led to the discovery of CVE-2022-46395.

New playground: memory spy

Meet “Success At Scale”, our upcoming book with best-practice case studies from industry experts. Print shipping in early March 2024. eBook now available. Pre-order the book.

Say goodbye to traditional workflows and embrace Agile to unlock the power of high-quality code. Discover how Agile methodologies promote simplicity, modularization, readability, and continuous improvement, resulting in faster turnaround times, more responsive development processes, and ultimately, the creation of high-quality software that meets customer needs.

Low-code enables developers and non-developers to build custom applications and solutions with less effort. In this blog, we show you how to automate your low-code deployments using GitHub Actions.

In this special episode of The ReadME Podcast, dedicated to GitHub’s Maintainer Month, Kelsey Hightower joins hosts Martin Woodward and Neha Batra to discuss his philosophy on fostering thriving open source communities and the importance of empathy to a maintainer’s success.

Based on frustrations with conventional framework-based dependency injection, I have adopted a composition strategy that utilizes partial application to inject context into modules. When combined with test-driven development as the design process and a focus on functions over classes, modules can be kept clear, clean, and mostly free of unintended coupling.

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos.

Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. Behind these perfect moments of entertainment…

In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Web Platform Baseline. What is it, and how can it help determine your browser support policy? Drew McLellan talks to expert Rachel Andrew to find out.

Developer Week 2023 is officially a wrap. Let’s take a look at everything we shipped last week

Launching our new Open Source Software Sponsorships Program and broadening the eligibility criteria to support more projects.

Announcing the second cohort of the Workers Launchpad - we can't wait to work with them and showcase these incredible companies building on Cloudflare's Developer Platform!

When we first conceived of our aerial fiber deployment solution, Bombyx (the Latin name for a silk moth), we imagined a robot weaving strands of fiber-optic cables over powerlines, helping human workers quickly connect communities even in very rural or remote locations. Now, after years of successful research, Bombyx is taking the next steps in […]

It’s easy for beginner designers to get overwhelmed and lose confidence when creating presentations, landing pages, app and web design mockups, and even cards. Laurent Baumann shares a few simple guidelines and practical tips to help you in such situations.

We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time.

Queues is faster than ever before! Now queues will automatically scale up your consumers, clearing out backlogs in a flash. Explicit Acknowledgement allows developers to acknowledge or retry individual messages in a batch, preventing work from being repeated.

The Workers Browser Rendering API allows developers to programmatically control and interact with a headless browser instance and create automation flows for their applications and products. Today we enter the open beta and start onboarding our customers.
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Celso, Joshua Claeys·May 19, 2023Frontend 
For Developer Week 2023, we’re going to be looking at one of the newest Cloudflare developer offerings and how it compares to an alternative when retrieving assets from buckets: R2 versus Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

We use China Express to accelerate for performance and Workers to fall back to user through China Express for cost-effectiveness.

Introducing Secrets Store by Cloudflare - the ultimate solution for managing your application secrets securely. Safeguard sensitive information, track access, and maintain ease of use.

Earn best practices for securing generative AI applications based on Cloudflare's experience protecting some of the largest AI applications in the world