Breaking down broadband nutrition labels
We commend Congress for including broadband nutrition labels in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the FCC for moving quickly to implement the labels
Code Ranges: A Deeper Look at Ruby Strings - Shopify
An informal look at what makes encoding-aware strings in Ruby functional and performant, providing insight into all the wonderful things the Ruby VM does.
More locally relevant ways to pay in Japan
Since we launched in Japan five years ago, our domestic and international users have told us that they want to pursue deeper, more natural relationships with their Japanese customers.
What’s new in GitHub Discussions: Organization Discussions, polls, and more
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions.
A list of new(ish) command line tools
A list of new(ish) command line tools
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers.
Release Radar
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks…
Leveraging Shopify’s API to Build the Latest Marketplace Kit - Shopify
In February, we released the second version of Marketplace Kit: a collection of boilerplate app code and documentation allowing third-party developers to integrate with Shopify, build selected commerce features and launch a world-class marketplace in any channel.
Lots of feedback about /bin/true, and more empty file fun
GitHub Availability Report: March 2022
In March, we experienced several incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
You can do a lot with an empty file
Devs For Ukraine, A Free Online Charity Conference 🇺🇦 — Smashing Magazine
[Devs For Ukraine](https://www.devsforukraine.io/) is a free online charity conference organized by the lovely people at Remote. Two days filled with talks from engineering leaders around the globe, in support of Ukraine. The conference will take place April 25–26, 2022, with the goal to raise funds and provide support to Ukraine. The funds raised during the two days of the event will be evenly di
That simple script is still someone's bad day
How To Get Work Done: Wrangling Stakeholders And Overcoming Obstacles — Smashing Magazine
Whether you work in-house or for an external agency, we all share one challenge — dealing with stakeholders, be they your boss, colleagues, or clients. In this post, veteran web designer Paul Boag shares his approach to getting things done in even the most challenging organizations. He will also change some of our prejudices along the way. Because let’s be clear; we need other people for our websi
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause
What Cloudflare is doing to keep the Open Internet flowing into Russia and keep attacks from getting out
Following Russia’s unjustified and tragic invasion of Ukraine in late February, the world has watched closely as Russian troops attempted to advance across Ukraine, only to be resisted and repelled by the Ukrainian people
The end of the road for Cloudflare CAPTCHAs
We decided we’re going to stop using CAPTCHAs. Before we talk about how we did it, and how you can help, let's first start with a simple question. Why in the world is CAPTCHA still used anyway?
In defense of simple architectures
Announcing the Spotify FOSS Fund
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund) to pay maintainers of independent projects. This new initiative is about giving back to open source developers and is one of the ways we are investing in a more sustainable open source ecosystem for all of us. The fund will start at 100K EUR, with Spotify’s engineers nominating what projects should receive funds and our fun
Spotify Live: From Live to Recording
(formerly ) is a platform that democratizes live audio streams. Creators are able to create rooms and stream live directly to fans who join the room. They can also interact directly with their fans either by text chatting in the app or bringing them up as speakers to interact by voice. But what about when the room ends? A creator could have had an incredible conversation they might want to preserv
Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically
In 2017, we launched the , a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, stop, and manage Spotify audio playback from the web. This post presents an overview of what you can do with the API, now called the Player API, and some background information about how it came to exist.
WAF mitigations for Spring4Shell
Cloudflare Managed Ruleset updates for the recent vulnerabilities affecting the Java Spring framework and related software components
Future-proofing SaltStack
This blogpost chronicles the recent CVEs investigation, our findings, and how we are helping secure Salt now and in the Quantum future
A Time For Reflection (April 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s welcome the new month with some new wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available in versions with and without a calendar for April 2022. Maybe you’ll rediscover one of your almost-forgotten favorites in there, too? Enjoy!
10 Books Shopify’s Tech Talent Think You Should Read - Shopify
Shopify software engineers, developers and development managers name the books they think everyone in tech and engineering should read.
SmashingConf Is Back In 2022 — Smashing Magazine
We love seeing what we all can do to make the web more accessible and usable. We also love organizing and attending online events, with our SmashingConf Live last year, and of course, our online workshops are here to stay! After two years when almost everything moved online, 2022 marks the return of in-person conferences. In fact, [SmashingConf is back](https://smashingconf.com/conferences): comin
6 Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development
I’d like to show you some hacks to aid your web development workflow and how to convert those hacks into time-saving bookmarklets.
A Guide To Hover And Pointer Media Queries — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we’ll talk about how to adapt our sites to the different scenarios of a device pointer: whether it has a pointer or not, or how accurate it is. To adapt our site to those devices’ needs we’ll talk about how to properly use media queries `hover`, `pointer`, `any-hover` and `any-pointer`.
Unlock all the GitHub secrets within .Tech Domains newest experience: Break The Code 2!
GitHub Education is fired up for the return of .Tech Domains developer community competition: Break The Code 2. We’ve hacked in some new enigmas, cheat codes, and easter eggs for digital sleuths to uncover!
Cloudflare Radar’s new ASN pages
Autonomous Systems (ASes) are a group of routable IP prefixes belonging to a single entity or organization, and is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet
The art and influence of motion
A conversation about the power of movement to guide, communicate, and delight
GitHub Actions: secure self-hosted runners by limiting them to specific workflows
You can now enforce consistent usage of self-hosted runner groups across your organization and enterprise.
AirPlay in a high-density environment isn't great
Get updates on the health of your origin where you need them
We are thrilled to announce Health Checks availability within Cloudflare’s centralized Notification tab, available to all Pro, Business, and Enterprise customers. Now, you can get critical alerts on the health of your origin without checking your inbox!
Improving your GitHub feed
Today, we are rolling out a new beta version of GitHub’s home feed, making it easier to discover projects, developers and more across GitHub.
Some people don't deserve access to the machine room
Shopify’s Bug Bounty Program Raises Maximum Payout in 2022 - Shopify
In 2022, Shopify's Bug Bounty Program is doubling the maximum reward to $100,000 and moving key services into the highest severity level.
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Managing Clouds - Cloudflare CASB and our not so secret plan for what’s next
Right now we’re working on making the out-of-band CASB product a seamless part of the Zero Trust platform
Congratulations Cloudflare 2021 Partner Award Winners
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of our annual Channel and Alliance Partner Awards for 2021
Clientless Web Isolation is now generally available
Today, we’re excited to announce that Clientless Web Isolation is generally available
Release Radar
Our community has shipped lots of open source project updates in the last month. Here’s a few of our staff picks.
Discussing two "holy war" topics at the same time
Announcing the Cloudflare API Gateway
Today we’re announcing the Cloudflare API Gateway. We’re going to completely replace your existing gateway at a fraction of the cost
Save time with partial re-runs in GitHub Actions
It is now possible to re-run only failed jobs or a single job in GitHub Actions workflows.
WAF for everyone: protecting the web from high severity vulnerabilities
We are excited to provide our new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, with a Free Managed Ruleset to all Cloudflare users
Cloudflare Zaraz supports CSP
If you have Cloudflare Zaraz enabled on your website, you don’t have to ask yourself twice if you should enable CSP because there’s no harmful collision between CSP & Cloudflare Zaraz
Dumb things you can sometimes do with hard links
Introducing: Backup Certificates
We are excited to introduce backup certificates to increase reliability of our service for anyone using the Cloudflare platform in the event of key compromises or related issues
More stories about stacks of modems
Celebrate tiny learning milestones
Celebrate tiny learning milestones
Taking away the berries
How Cloudflare verifies the code WhatsApp Web serves to users
Understand how Cloudflare is helping WhatsApp verify the code they’re using for secure messaging hasn’t been tampered with
Stream now supports SRT as a drop-in replacement for RTMP
RTMP is not the protocol to carry us into the future so Cloudflare Stream now supports SRT in wherever you would use RTMP for.
Improved management for GitHub Enterprise owners
We’ve introduced several new features to help enterprise owners more easily manage their accounts, including two features now in public beta.
How to use undocumented web APIs
How to use undocumented web APIs
Questions about construction trucks on train tracks
DNSSEC issues take Fiji domains offline
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation
Our response to Ukraine
A note to our community