Celebrating the first round of GitHub Accelerator and what’s next
Celebrate the maintainers of the first GitHub Accelerator cohort, learn what they have been up to since, and hear what’s next for GitHub Accelerator.
In Search Of The Ideal Privacy Icon — Smashing Magazine
Icons are capable of enhancing the content that surrounds them, but they have to be self-explanatory for that to happen. We have icons for things we like (a thumbs up), things we can share (a box topped with an up arrow), and even for protection against malicious online attacks (a shield), but what are the options we have for representing “privacy”?
GitHub Game Off 2023 theme announcement
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready?
Confusing git terminology
Confusing git terminology
The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
Our daily tasks as engineers often involve implementing new functionalities. Existing users get to enjoy the benefits of these features, new users are enticed to sign up for the app, and we get to write more code. At first glance, it appears to be a perfect symbiotic relationship — a win-win-win scenario where everybody’s happy and nothing goes wrong, right?
Spotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time!
This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Spotify won their . This is the second time we’ve received the honor, having previously won the award in — and we are even more proud this time around as it’s a testament to our continued commitment to the cloud native ecosystem and open source community.
Introducing the GitHub transparency center
It’s time for our biannual transparency report, where we share how we approach content moderation and disclosure of user information. This year, we’re introducing the transparency center, a new platform for our transparency reporting data.
Tales Of November (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
November is just around the corner, and with it, a new collection of desktop wallpapers to celebrate the beginning of the month. Designed by creatives from all across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Let’s make this November colorful!
Release Radar
As Hacktoberfest comes to a close, you still have a day or so left to complete and submit your pull requests. If you’re struggling to think of projects to contribute…
Hackable Halloween games MMXXIII
13 spooktacular games plus source code for readers to jam on.
Introducing HAR Sanitizer: secure HAR sharing
As a follow-up to the most recent Okta breach, we are making a HAR file sanitizer available to everyone, not just Cloudflare customers, at no cost.
Q3 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the third quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
Cache Reserve goes GA: enhanced control to minimize egress costs
We're excited to announce the graduation of Cache Reserve from beta to GA, accompanied by the introduction of several exciting new features. These new features include adding Cache Reserve into the analytics shown on the Cache overview section of the Cloudflare dashboard
Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp
An overview of containers and seccomp as sandboxing primitives
Server-side sandboxing: An introduction
The first of our three-part series on deploying and operating sandboxing techniques
How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, we discovered attacks on our system that we were able to trace back to Okta. We have verified that no Cloudflare customer information or systems were impacted by this event because of our rapid response.
Empowering our partners with the new Tenant Platform dashboard
We are proud to announce the general availability of our first dashboard for our Tenant Platform, providing an intuitive user interface for agencies and partners to manage their client accounts
Some miscellaneous git facts
Some miscellaneous git facts
A Roundup Of WCAG 2.2 Explainers — Smashing Magazine
WCAG 2.2 officially became a “W3C Recommended” web standard on October 5, 2023, and with it, new success criteria and changes to existing guidelines for accessible user experiences. What are the changes, and how can you conform to them? This roundup provides links to WCAG 2.2 explainers that have been published or updated since the release.
The clock is ticking: Atlassian’s support for Bitbucket Server ends on February 15, 2024
Atlassian is ending support for its Server products—including Bitbucket Server—in February 2024. In this post, you’ll learn what that means for you, your options, and how you can move to GitHub.
Smashing Podcast Episode 66 With Ethan Marcotte: What Is A Tech Union? — Smashing Magazine
In today’s Smashing Podcast episode, we’re talking about Tech Unions. What part can unions play in a modern tech workplace? Drew McLellan talks to Ethan Marcotte to find out.
getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In the final part of this two-part series on solving headaches when working with media files in Gatsby projects, Juan Rodriguez demonstrates strategies and techniques for handling various types of documents, including Markdown files, PDFs, and 3D models.
How To Choose Typefaces For Fintech Products: Our Best Practices Guide (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Fintech products are systems that are overloaded by many types of data like numerals, texts, spreadsheets, and so on. Working with these products requires the designer to pay a high level of attention and responsibility, as he becomes a provider between user and data. Daria shares her approach to digital product typography and reviews the key points to consider when choosing typefaces.
How Prisma saved 98% on distribution costs with Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare products provide much of the underlying infrastructure for Prisma Accelerate and Prisma Pulse, empowering user-focused product development. This ongoing collaboration extends to enhancing the Prisma ORM
Ensuring the next generation of open source leaders are truly “all in”
If you are a student from a U.S. minority-serving institution looking to start your journey into open source, join us!
Administrivia: new page/feed generator is now live
Tekla's ecommerce evolution: harnessing flexibility with Vercel and Medusa
Internet traffic patterns in Israel and Palestine following the October 2023 attacks
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, attacks from the Palestinian group Hamas launched from the Gaza Strip against the south of Israel started a new conflict in the region. Cloudflare's data shows that Internet traffic was impacted in different ways
Skilling African developers through All In Africa
All In Africa is a gateway to growth, learning, and meaningful connections within the African open source ecosystem and beyond.
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
Cloudflare's a Top 100 Most Loved Workplace for the second consecutive year in 2023
We are proud to share that Cloudflare has been certified and recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2023 by Newsweek and the Best Practice Institute (BPI) for the second consecutive year.
ASCII protocol buffers as config files
Waiting Room adds multi-host and path coverage, unlocking broader protection and multilingual setups
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Waiting Room now supports coverage of multiple hostname and path combinations with a single waiting room, giving customers more flexibility and offering broader site coverage without interruptions to end-user flows
How to communicate like a GitHub engineer: our principles, practices, and tools
Learn more about how we use GitHub to build GitHub, how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.
Introducing secret scanning validity checks for major cloud services
Secret scanning now performs validity checks for select AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack tokens.
Sponsors is expanding
GitHub Sponsors has partnered with Patreon. We’re also expanding to new regions.
I screwed something up in that last post about Hue
The Problem With WordPress Is Positioning, Not Plugins — Smashing Magazine
Geoff explores the often-overlooked divide between WordPress.org and WordPress.com, shedding light on the blurred lines between open-source ideals and commercial interests.
A dynamic back office is the new business superpower
We’re adding new features to our revenue and finance automation suite that make it easier for businesses to grow revenue and streamline operations.
Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the to help support the free and open source software projects we use at Spotify. We’re excited to announce that the fund has returned for 2023, and the recipients have been selected. This year, the fund’s 100,000 EUR are going to the following four projects: AssertJ, Jdbi, Testcontainers, and Xiph.
Dancing Leaves And Spooky Fellows (October 2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
How about a little inspiration boost? Well, we might have something for you: desktop wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe. They are available in versions with and without a calendar for October and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Encrypted Client Hello - the last puzzle piece to privacy
We're excited to announce a contribution to improving privacy for everyone on the Internet. Encrypted Client Hello, a new standard that prevents networks from snooping on which websites a user is visiting, is now available on all Cloudflare plans.
Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone
Now that we’ve eliminated CAPTCHAs at Cloudflare, we want to hasten the demise of CAPTCHAs across the internet. We’re thrilled to announce that Turnstile is generally available, and Turnstile’s ‘Managed’ mode is now completely free to everyone for unlimited use.
Cloudflare now uses post-quantum cryptography to talk to your origin server
Starting today, you can secure the connection between Cloudflare and your origin server with post-quantum cryptography
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Re-introducing the Cloudflare Workers Playground
Today, we’re excited to announce an updated Cloudflare Workers playground, where users can develop and test Workers before sharing or deploying them
Cloudflare Integrations Marketplace introduces three new partners: Sentry, Momento and Turso
We introduced integrations with Supabase, PlanetScale, Neon and Upstash. Today, we are thrilled to introduce our newest additions to Cloudflare’s Integrations Marketplace – Sentry, Turso and Momento
Cloudflare’s 2023 Annual Founders’ Letter
Cloudflare is officially a teenager. We launched on September 27, 2010. Today we celebrate our thirteenth birthday
The best place on Region: Earth for inference
Today, we’re excited to make a series of announcements that we believe will make a similar impact as Workers did in the future of computing
You can now use WebGPU in Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are introducing WebGPU support to Cloudflare Workers. This blog will explain why it's important, why we did it, how you can use it, and what comes next
Amazon’s $2bn IPv4 tax — and how you can avoid paying it
In this blog, we’ll explain a little bit more about the technology involved, but most importantly, give you a step-by-step walkthrough of how Cloudflare can help you eliminate the need to pay Amazon for something that they shouldn’t be charging you for in the first place
Gone offline: how Cloudflare Radar detects Internet outages
Cloudflare Radar will be publishing anomalous traffic events for countries and Autonomous Systems (ASes). These events are the same ones referenced above that have been triggering our internal workflow to validate and confirm disruptions
Image optimization made simpler and more predictable: we’re merging Cloudflare Images and Image Resizing
We’re changing how we bill for Image Resizing to let you calculate your monthly costs more accurately and reliably. All Image Resizing features will be available under Cloudflare Images
How GitHub uses GitHub Actions and Actions larger runners to build and test GitHub.com
Recently, we’ve been working to make our CI experience better by leveraging the newly released GitHub feature, Actions larger runners, to run our CI.
Your ultimate guide to the GitHub Universe ‘23 agenda
Get a sneak peek into the must-attend sessions, speakers, workshops, and GitHub certifications available at our global developer event.
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
Smashing Podcast Episode 65 With Alex Older: How Do You Run A Grassroots Conference? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about running grassroots conferences and meet-ups. What does it take to organize a small industry event for your community? Drew McLellan talks to WDC’s Alex Older to find out.
First Input Delay (FID) vs. Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
Learn about the differences between FID and INP and how to optimize your website's INP score.