Posts by Colby Fayock

The Spooky AI Hackathon has wrapped up with absolutely frightening results! A staggering 140 projects were submitted by Miguel Ángel Durán’s vast community, keeping us busy and in sheer terror as we hand-reviewed each one. The goal of this hackathon was to create anything that combined the theme of…

We’re joining forces with Miguel Ángel Durán again to bring a new hackathon: Spooky AI Creations! Miguel is a frontend developer and content creator from Spain, with a vibrant community of passionate developers. In our previous Tech Product hackathon, Miguel’s community brought unique creativity and innovation to the mission of…

Astro has become a major player in the JavaScript ecosystem, giving developers the tools they need to build fast, content-driven websites. With it comes a vast collection of extensions and integrations, to build those sites with the tools you love. And now, we’re adding an SDK to help you build…

This year Cloudinary’s back to celebrate Open Source and Hacktoberfest as big as ever! We have SDKs and example projects waiting for your help to build a great experience, including GitHub Issues on both code and documentation. Like last year, we’re giving away 50 special swag packs, including a limited…

Cloudinary’s state-of-the-art Media Library and DAM allows developers and non-technical teams to easily manage their assets at scale, but how can we just as easily access those assets programmatically to deliver them in our websites and apps? The Astro team just launched their new Content Layer feature, which is a…

There are as many reasons we stop what we’re doing to capture that perfect image as there are, well, images. There are billions of images now, no, many trillions of images, each one a moment in time, a tiny instant of our lives and experiences that we felt a need…

This year Cloudinary is getting involved in Hacktoberfest in a way it hasn’t before. We’re making many of our open source SDKs available on GitHub to count towards your contributions to Hacktoberfest! Bonus: On top of the rewards you get from hacktoberfest.com, your contribution will get…

When dealing with images, often you want to be able to cut out the primary object and change the background, whether that’s a pair of shoes you want to show in your store in a more life-like environment or if you simply want to change the background. But doing this…

The Cloudinary Developer Experience team is thrilled to announce that Cloudinary is expanding its community library support by launching two new integrations for the Nuxt and Svelte ecosystems. One of the DevX team’s goals is to provide you, the developer, with the framework and meta-framework support you expect. The other…

Introducing Cloudinary Office Hours, the newest way to educate yourself on the latest Cloudinary features and product updates live – as in real time!  Each session is a great (maybe the very best) way to discover the helpful tips and time-saving shortcuts, get an advanced look at things to come,…

The first-ever Cloudinary CloudCreate Hackathon has come to a close and, judging by the 71 unique entries, was a smash hit.  The goal of this hackathon was to create a new tech product or application that uses Cloudinary to solve a real-world problem. This gave developers a pretty broad range…

Building web and mobile apps requires teams to constantly analyze the requests being made and what can be done to avoid slow-loading pages which hurt engagement and make your visitors unhappy. Fortunately, there are tools like Next.js that allow those teams to build web apps with performance in mind.  Which…

Documentation, blog posts, and user guides—these are just a few of the critical assets needed to get developers onboarded and learn how to work within a new system, in this case Cloudinary. But not all learners are the same. Sometimes a visual approach is needed, that focuses specifically on the…

URLs are the way of the web, but whether you’re trying to stuff some extra query parameters to control the experience or simply have a long domain name, those URLs can be long to enter manually when you don’t have an easy link to click. Instead we can take advantage…

Optimizing media for the web is a must-do to save visitor bandwidth and accelerate page loads as much as feasible. Incorporating the optimization process into an existing development workflow could be cumbersome, however. Cloudinary’s Netlify Build Plugin ensures that all the images slated for delivery on your site are automatically…