Build a game this November with Game Off 2022
Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉
Git Merge 2022 – that’s a wrap! 🎬
Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.
Instant Articles, Proprietary Syndication, and a Web Built on User Fidelity Preferences
I love it when there's a sense of synergy in the blogosphere. First, I caught Nick Heer's coverage of Meta ending support for Instant Articles, its
Conway's Law
Unboxing fork improvements
We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.
Making peering easy with the new Cloudflare Peering Portal
Cloudflare's peering portal allows users to log in with existing PeeringDB credentials and request peering sessions with cloudflare direct from the portal
Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top 100 Packages and Their Dependencies - Shopify
As packages frequently depend on other packages, could some of these big (more than 180M downloads) packages depend on small (less than 180M downloads) packages?
Understanding Privacy: A New Smashing Book Is Here — Smashing Magazine
Meet Understanding Privacy, our brand new Smashing Book to make sense of privacy, and learn how to create inclusive, safe and privacy-aware digital experiences. eBook now available, print shipping in early December.
Internet disruptions overview for Q3 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
WordPress Full-Site Editing: A Deep Dive Into The New Feature — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Nick Schäferhoff will take a deep dive into WordPress Full-Site Editing, examine the tools it provides for theme development, and provide a tutorial on how to use it to make changes to your site.
Fancy Image Decorations: Single Element Magic
As the title says, we are going to decorate images! There’s a bunch of other articles out there that talk about this, but what we’re covering here is quite a
Some Things I Took Away From An Event Apart 2022 in Denver
An Event Apart 2022 Denver wrapped up yesterday. And while I was unable to make it to all three days this time, I did catch yesterday's action — and it was
On the Importance of Pull Request Discipline - Shopify
Unorganized pull requests are the bane of large codebases. Follow Yash's tips to prevent your PRs from getting roasted in the group chat.
The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.
View GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces
Developers can now view GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces. The new Microsoft SARIF Viewer extension gives developers direct access to their code scanning results, making remediating vulnerabilities easier than ever.
How to Write Code Without Having to Read It - Shopify
Do we need to read code before editing it? In order to safely fix a bug or update a feature, we may need to learn some things about the code. However, we’d prefer to learn only that information.
Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization — Smashing Magazine
Climate change and sustainability are increasing concerns for digital organizations, as well as individuals working in tech. In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways we can raise awareness and effect change within an organization to create a more positive environmental impact.
How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website
Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into
Behind the feature: Find and replace
Designer Jackie Chui on how we translated learnings from a plugin to build a native functionality
Developers are now included in the WIPO Global Innovation Index
We’re excited that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the 2022 edition of its Global Innovation Index (GII) with an indicator of developer creative outputs based on GitHub commits.
Join our upcoming live roadshow series: ‘Zero Trust, Zero Nonsense’
Starting in a couple of weeks, and continuing through the end of the year, we’re hosting a series of Zero Trust Roadshows in various North American cities
Bringing the best live video experience to Cloudflare Stream with AV1
Cloudflare Stream now supports the AV1 codec for live video in open beta, unlocking live-streaming at higher resolution, with lower bandwidth
Two ways you can experience GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.
Defending against future threats: Cloudflare goes post-quantum
The future of a private and secure Internet is at stake; that is why today we have enabled post-quantum cryptography support for all our customers
Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.38.
How to Mentor Interns to Become Skillful Engineers
Internships are a great opportunity for companies to invest in great talent and train future engineers. It is important to prepare a good mentorship plan for the interns, so that they make the best use of their time and acquire experiences that will help make them full-time employees in the future. The first step is…
Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case
This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading. I did this so that I could easily read this and, after reading it, I've found that most accountings of what was said are, in one way or another, fairly misleading. Since the texts aren't all that long, if y
Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to , we’ve made climate action one of our five technology pillars and have been integrating sustainability into our everyday engineering practices. This year, climate action was the theme of our company-wide Hack Week, we made climate responsibility part of our official engineering handbook, and we partnered with Thoughtworks to release the Cloud Carbon Footprint pl
Don't roll your own high cardinality analytics, use Workers Analytics Engine
Join our open beta and start collecting telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers today!
Goodbye, Alexa. Hello, Cloudflare Radar Domain Rankings
Today, we are launching a new dataset called Radar Rankings, where we identify the top most popular domains that reflect how people use the Internet globally and per country.
The home page for Internet insights: Cloudflare Radar 2.0
Cloudflare Radar makes Internet trends, patterns and insights available to everyone, and we’re now making them even easier to find, understand and share.
Lights, Camera, Action! Business and Pro customers get bundled streaming video
If you have a Business or Pro subscription, soon you will receive a free allocation of Cloudflare Stream.
A Software Engineer’s Guide to Giving Feedback that Actually Matters - Shopify
A few tips for software engineers who want to deliver effective feedback during pull request reviews.
October Vibes For Your Desktop (2022 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!
Now all customers can share access to their Cloudflare account with Role Based Access Controls
Role Based Access Controls are now available for every plan!
GitHub supports internet freedom and global availability in Iran
Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community.
A Day in the Life of a Cloud Engineer at Slack Australia
06:15 AM My two young kids come in waking me up, presenting me with iPads in the hopes of a quick game of Minecraft before school. I sometimes give in as it might mean a few more minutes sleep! 07:00 AM It’s time for the first of many oat flat whites — or oat flatties…
Introducing Cloudflare’s free Botnet Threat Feed for service providers
We’re pleased to introduce Cloudflare’s free Botnet Threat Feed for Service Providers. This includes all types of service providers, ranging from hosting providers to ISPs and cloud compute providers.
We've shipped so many products the Cloudflare dashboard needed its own search engine
Today we’re proud to announce our beta release of quick search for the Cloudflare dashboard, our first ever cross-dashboard search tool to help you navigate our products and features.
GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options Right Now
So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the
Cloudflare named a Leader in WAF by Forrester
Forester has recognised Cloudflare as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022 report. The report evaluated 12 Web Application Firewall (WAF) providers on 24 criteria across current offering, strategy and market presence.
The future of Page Rules
Learn about four new products that will eventually replace Page Rules by putting more power into the hands of users.
Introducing Configuration Rules
Configuration Rules is the new and improved way for Cloudflare customers to control and manipulate features that are enabled or disabled for specific requests on their zone.
Introducing Cache Rules: precision caching at your fingertips
We have spent the last ten years learning how customers use Page Rules to customize their cached content, and it’s clear the time is ripe for evolving rules-based caching on Cloudflare
Build your next startup on Cloudflare with our comprehensive Startup Plan, v2.0
The Startup Plan now has an expanded product basket and broader eligibility criteria, which means more startups now qualify for the program.
Dynamic URL redirects: 301 to the future
With Dynamic redirects, users can redirect visitors to another webpage or website based upon hundreds of options such as the visitor's country of origin or language, without having to write a single
A Flexible Framework for Effective Pair Programming - Shopify
Pair programming is one of the most important tools we use while mentoring early talent in Shopify's Dev Degree program. It’s an agile software development technique where two people work together, either to share context, solve a problem, or learn from one another.
Meet SmashingConf New York 🇺🇸 (Oct 10–13) — Smashing Magazine
SmashingConf NYC is back! A friendly, inclusive conference for designers and front-end engineers who can’t wait to learn and be inspired. October 10–13, 2022. Get your ticket!
Cloudflare’s 2022 Annual Founders’ Letter
Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. This week we'll celebrate our 12th birthday. As has become our tradition, we'll be announcing a series of products that we think of as our gifts back to the Internet
GA Week 2022: what you may have missed
We made a lot of new products Generally Available this week, so in case you missed it, here’s a recap
How to enable Private Access Tokens in iOS 16 and stop seeing CAPTCHAs
Nobody likes CAPTCHAs. Now, with iOS 16 on iPhones, a small enabled toggle can make them disappear while improving privacy on your device. Here’s how to check if it’s “on” and try it out
How To Customize WordPress Block Theme Cover Templates with Dynamic Post Feature Images
If we browse the WordPress theme directory, a majority of themes showcase cover images. It is a feature in popular demand. The cover page trend is true even
Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience.
Cloudflare Zaraz supports Managed Components and DLP to make third-party tools private
Third party tools are the only thing you can’t control on your website, unless you use Managed Components with Cloudflare Zaraz
Protests spur Internet disruptions in Iran
The Iranian government has disrupted Internet connectivity in response to recent protests over the death of a woman while in police custody
Logpush: now lower cost and with more visibility
Logpush jobs can now be filtered to contain only logs of interest. Also, you can receive alerts when jobs are failing, as well as get statistics on the health of your jobs
Lessons From Building Android Widgets - Shopify
Shopify share with you the challenges we faced building Android widgets and how we solved them.
Lessons From Building iOS Widgets - Shopify
Shopify shares with you how we approached building iOS widgets and some of the challenges we faced.
R2 is now Generally Available
R2 is now generally available!! R2 gives developers object storage minus the egress fees
Store and retrieve your logs on R2
Log Storage on R2: a cost-effective solution to store event logs for any of our products
