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Frontend — The Big Gotcha With @starting-style

The Big Gotcha With @starting-style

CSS has been on fire lately, with tons of great new features. @starting-style is an interesting one; it allows us to use CSS transitions for enter animations, something previously reserved for CSS keyframe animations. But is the juice worth the squeeze?

JWJosh W. Comeau·September 22, 2025Frontend
Engineering — Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've also been thinking a lot about what's changed on the Internet and what has not.

MPMatthew Prince, Michelle ZatlynMatthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn·September 21, 2025Engineering
AI & ML — The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence — Smashing Magazine

The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence — Smashing Magazine

With digital products moving to incorporate generative and agentic AI at an increasingly frequent rate, trust has become the invisible user interface. When it works, interactions feel seamless. When it fails, the entire experience collapses. But trust isn’t mystical. It can be understood, measured, and designed for. Here are practical methods and strategies for designing more trustworthy and ethic

VVictoryoccoVictoryocco·September 19, 2025AI & ML
Performance — How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website — Smashing Magazine

How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website — Smashing Magazine

As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the environmental impact of your website, benefiting people, profit, purpose, performance, and the planet.

JCJames ChudleyJames Chudley·September 18, 2025Performance
Performance — The RUM Diaries: enabling Web Analytics by default

The RUM Diaries: enabling Web Analytics by default

We’re excited to announce the start of a major upgrade to Cloudflare’s performance analytics suite: Web Analytics as part of our real user monitoring (RUM) tools will soon be combined with network-level insights to help you pinpoint performance issues anywhere on a packet’s journey — from a visitor’s browser, through Cloudflare’s network, to your origin.

ATAlex, Tim KadlecAlex, Tim Kadlec·September 17, 2025Performance
Frontend — Is it Time to Un-Sass?

Is it Time to Un-Sass?

Many of the Sass features we've grown to love have made their way into native CSS in some shape or form. So, should we still use Sass? This is how developer Jeff Bridgforth is thinking about it.

JBJeff BridgforthJeff Bridgforth·September 17, 2025Frontend
Languages — Making our own spectrogram

Making our own spectrogram

A couple months ago I made a loudness meter and went way too in-depth into how humans have measured loudness over time. Today we’re looking at a spectrogram visualization I made, which is a lot more entertaining! We’re going to talk about how to extract frequencies from sound waves, but also how my spectrogram app is assembled from different Rust crates, how it handles audio and graphics threads,

AWAmos WengerAmos Wenger·September 15, 2025Languages
Security — crates.io phishing attempt

crates.io phishing attempt

Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack . It’s turn for crates.io , the main public repository for Rust crates (packages). The phishing e-mail looks like this: Andrew Gallant on BlueSky And it leads to a GitHub login page that looks like this: Barre on GitHub Several maintainers received it — the issue is being discussed on GitHub . The crates.io team has acknowledged the attack and said the

AWAmos WengerAmos Wenger·September 12, 2025Security
AI & ML — A framework for pricing AI products

A framework for pricing AI products

While businesses are rapidly building AI products, monetization remains a challenge. In this post, we share a framework for building a successful pricing strategy with key decision points on charge metrics, billing models, and guardrails.

KMKunal MahajanKunal Mahajan·September 11, 2025AI & ML
Frontend — What're Your Top 4 CSS Properties?

What're Your Top 4 CSS Properties?

Everyone has a different opinion which is great because it demonstrates the messy, non-linear craft that is thinking like a front-end developer.

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·September 10, 2025Frontend
Networking — Bringing Node.js HTTP servers to Cloudflare Workers

Bringing Node.js HTTP servers to Cloudflare Workers

We've implemented the node:http client and server APIs in Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to migrate existing Node.js applications with minimal code changes. This post explains how we built a bridge between the Workers serverless environment and Node.js's traditional HTTP model, complete with examples for running frameworks like Express.js at the edge.

YNYagiz Nizipli, JasnellYagiz Nizipli, Jasnell·September 8, 2025Networking
Frontend — Composition in CSS

Composition in CSS

CSS is a composable language by nature. This composition nature is already built into the cascade. We simply don't talk about composition as a Big Thing because it's the nature of the language.

ZLZell LiewZell Liew·September 8, 2025Frontend
Security — color npm package compromised

color npm package compromised

On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of his package. Someone noticed and let Josh know: Charlie Eriksen on BlueSky Josh confirmed he’d gotten pwned by a fake 2FA (two-factor authentication) reset e-mail: Josh Junon on BlueSky The phishing e-mail came from npmsj.help (registered 3 days prior) and claimed

AWAmos WengerAmos Wenger·September 8, 2025Security
Frontend — Color Shifting in CSS

Color Shifting in CSS

A little while ago, I was trying to animate an element’s background color, so that it cycled through the rainbow. Seems easy, but it turns out, browsers have a surprisingly big limitation when it comes to color processing! In this tutorial, we’ll dig into the issue, and I’ll share a couple of strategies you can use to work around this limitation.

JWJosh W. Comeau·September 8, 2025Frontend
Frontend — Migrating to React Native's New Architecture (2025) - Shopify

Migrating to React Native's New Architecture (2025) - Shopify

Shopify successfully migrated two of its largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture while maintaining weekly releases and serving millions of merchants. This migration involved a complex codebase with hundreds of screens and native modules, extensive custom components, and deep integration with first-party libraries like FlashList.

SEShopify Engineering·September 5, 2025Frontend