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.
Cloudflare account permissions, how to use them, and best practices
Cloudflare has a lot of new roles, how should we use them, and how can we stay safe
Calling all teachers! Learn how to build new commands on the GitHub Classroom CLI
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll dive into how you can become the next open source contributor to the GitHub Classroom CLI, building commands that you can use to improve your workflow as an educator!
Expressing my laziness in concrete ways
Typo traps: analyzing traffic to exmaple.com (or is it example.com?)
Cloudflare has owned exmaple.com for a few years now, but don’t confuse it with example.com! example.com is a reserved domain name set by the IANA, under the direction of the IETF.
What codegen is (actually) good for
Codegen isn't a replacement, but an extension of your programming. In this post, we share recommendations for using codegen to augment your workflows.
Announcing the GitHub Innovation Graph
Explore a universe of data about how the world is building software together on GitHub.
The customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed ssh
Work has changed. New research tells us why and what we might do about it
A new study highlights three forces shaping the future of work, and what sets the best teams apart from the chaos.
Introducing Learning Paths on Global Campus
Guiding student developers through skill building foundations, a building block in their learning journey with GitHub Education.
Memories of a really goofy phone from the late 80s
Facilitating Inclusive Online Workshops (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
To help ensure the success of a workshop, Ben Shih introduces the concept of an inclusive workshop. In Part 2 of the series, you will continue to delve deeper into several key principles and guidelines that you can follow during and after the workshop to encourage an inclusive atmosphere.
The untapped opportunity at the bottom of your customer funnel
Businesses spend vast resources attracting customers, only to lose sales at the very last stage of the customer journey—the checkout. We’re releasing new features to our optimized checkout suite to help businesses change that.
New! Rate Limiting analytics and throttling
Cloudflare Analytics can now suggest rate limiting threshold based on historic traffic patterns. Rate Limiting also supports a throttle behavior
Add extra stuff to a "standard" encoding? Sure, why not.
How Smashing Magazine Uses TinaCMS To Manage An Editorial Workflow
This article is a peek behind the curtain of how content is managed here at Smashing Magazine. In it, you’ll get a tour of an article’s full lifecycle, from a basic outline to the sort of thing you’re reading right this second.
Introducing auto-triage rules for Dependabot
Make quick work of alerts with preset and custom rules.
In a git repository, where do your files live?
In a git repository, where do your files live?
Building companies means building careers: why I joined Cloudflare as Chief People Officer
We're excited to introduce Michele Yetman as Cloudflare's new Chief People Officer
Apply now for GitHub Universe 2023 micro-mentoring
As part of our ongoing commitment to accelerate human progress through Social Impact initiatives, we’re offering students 30-minute, 1:1 micro-mentoring sessions with GitHub employees ahead of Universe.
Facilitating Inclusive Online Workshops (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Running a workshop can be an effective alternative to traditional, long-standing meetings. To help ensure its success, Ben Shih introduces the concept of an inclusive workshop. In Part 1 of the series, you discover the fundamentals of inclusivity and get some solid guidance on how to plan an inclusive remote workshop.
Building a ShopifyQL Code Editor - Shopify
In October 2022, Shopify released ShopifyQL Notebooks, a first-party app that lets merchants analyze their shop data to make better decisions. It puts the power of ShopifyQL into merchants’ hands with a guided code editing experience. In order to provide a first-class editing experience, we turned to CodeMirror, a code editor framework built for the web. Out of the box, CodeMirror didn’t have supp
How the at-home workout sensation, Hydrow, cut authoring times from weeks to minutes
What’s next for Cloudflare One’s data protection suite
Cloudflare One just launched its data protection suite. This blog previews new functionality to protect data and code in SaaS environments with our DLP and CASB services and looks back on what we have built over the past year
My Summer Return Internship @ Slack: A Guide on Building on Past Experiences
Embarking on a journey Stepping out of SFO with the familiarity of the fogginess of the city, my story at Slack unfolds once again. As a return intern, I found myself prepped for another exciting summer, and this opportunity encompassed a renewed sense of anticipation — a mix between known pathways and new adventures. Returning…
The creator economy goes global
Stripe data shows that the creator economy has evolved but is still thriving. We’ve seen this evolution up close, as many of the largest creator platforms use Stripe Connect to onboard creators and pay out funds around the world.
Cloudflare Radar’s 2023 overview of new tools and insights
In this reading list, we want to highlight some of the new additions to Radar, as well as some of the Internet disruptions and trends we’ve observed and published posts about during this year
A September Of Never Ending Adventures (2023 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s get ready for September with some fresh wallpaper designs! Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this collection come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
Why all application migrations should be incremental
Projects that require migrations should aim for incremental migrations