International Women’s Day 2022
Welcome to International Women’s Day 2022! Here at Cloudflare, we are happy to celebrate it with you! Our celebration is not only this blog post, but many events prepared for the month of March: our way of honoring Women’s History Month by showcasing women’s empowerment
Some tiny personal programs I've written
Some tiny personal programs I've written
A parasitic RPC service that broke core dumps
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity launch the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project
Cloudflare has launched the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project to counter potential cyber retaliation for sanctions resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
Editing stuff in prod
Shields up: free Cloudflare services to improve your cyber readiness
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a novice website operator, free Cloudflare resources are available. Beyond these resources, there are a few simple steps that you can take to stay protected.
Internet traffic patterns in Ukraine since February 21, 2022
Cloudflare operates in more than 250 cities worldwide where we connect our equipment to the Internet to provide our broad range of services
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for passenger use in major cities. I am betting against, and John is betting for. By “completely autonomous,” per the SAE level 5 definition
Build Membership Businesses with Memberful
What would your business be like if you sold memberships? It might be more than fun to think about, in fact, it might just be transformative. With membership,
Building Web Layouts For Dual-Screen And Foldable Devices — Smashing Magazine
Dual-screen devices have been on the market for nearly three years. In that time new web platform technologies have been built with developer feedback to enable layout on the web that adapts to these devices. These web platform capabilities integrate with existing concepts, such as the viewport and media queries, so that developers and designers can spend more time ideating about how to leverage t
Monorepos are changing how teams build software
Monorepos are codebases containing multiple projects in a single unified code repository. This post explores how monorepos can improve your development workflow.
Our response to the war in Ukraine
As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers.
It's now your fault they don't know about it
RubyConf 2021: The Talks You Might Have Missed - Shopify
Shopify loves Ruby and opportunities to get together with other engineers who love Ruby to learn, share, and build relationships. In November, Rubyists from Shopify’s Ruby and Rails infrastructure teams gathered in Denver at RubyConf 2021 to immerse themselves in all things Ruby with a community of their peers. If you weren’t there or want to revisit the content, we’ve compiled a list of the talks
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
Universally unique identifier? Sometimes...
Jordan Loeser: Web Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped…
Introducing Natural Language Search for Podcast Episodes
Until recently, Search at Spotify relied mostly on term matching. For example, if you type the query “electric cars climate impact”, Elasticsearch will return search results that contain everything that has each of those query words in its indexed metadata (like in the title of a podcast episode).
Chantal Delfeld: Engineer
My early mornings are spent running about after my children – getting them dressed, giving them breakfast and putting on their sunscreen, so they’re all ready for the day ahead. At 8am, I drive my daughter to preschool, while my mom looks after my one-year-old son – she’s been living with us since the start of the pandemic and has been a huge help when it comes to family life and childcare.
Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify R&D. Today, we’re announcing , our new R&D podcast that gives you another view into our tech world. In each episode I’ll talk with Spotify developers about challenging tech problems and give you a firsthand look into what we’re doing, what we’re building, and what we’re nerding out about a
Zela Taino: iOS Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped…
March For Equality (2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Following our monthly tradition, artists and designers from across the globe challenged their creative skills and designed desktop wallpapers to welcome March. They come in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free.
C++ header files and inter-class connections
Post-quantumify internal services: Logfwrdr, Tunnel, and gokeyless
A big challenge is coming: to change all internal connections at Cloudflare to use post-quantum cryptography. Read how we are tackling this challenge!
The post-quantum future: challenges and opportunities
The story and path of post-quantum cryptography is clear. But, what are the future challenges? In this blog post, we explore them
Trailing Slashes on URLs: Contentious or Settled?
A fun deep dive from Zach. Do you have an opinion on which you should use?
Building Confidence in Cryptographic Protocols
This blogpost refers to the efforts to use formal/verification/implementation for post-quantum algorithms to achieve better assurance for them. It also touches on our Cloudflare efforts on this
My white whale: A use case for will-change
The will-change property landed in major browsers in August 2015, and I've been on the lookout for when to use it ever since.
Making protocols post-quantum
Post-quantum key exchange and signature algorithms come with different trade-offs that we’re familiar. How do we handle that when updating protocols, is this an opportunity to revisit the status quo?
A new way to understand your GitHub-hosted runner capacity
Explore and understand your overall GitHub-hosted Actions runner capacity with the new runner view.
Some things about getaddrinfo that surprised me
Some things about getaddrinfo that surprised me
Using The WordPress Editor And CPTs To Configure Plugins — Smashing Magazine
If we want our WordPress plugins to offer a settings page that is fully powered by blocks, how can we do it? Since *Full Site Editing* doesn’t support this feature yet, we need to code a custom solution. In this article, we will learn how we can do it.
Deep dive into a post-quantum key encapsulation algorithm
In this blog post, we will look at what Key Encapsulation Mechanisms are and why they matter in a post-quantum world
Deep dive into a post-quantum signature scheme
How can one attest to an identity and prove it belongs to one self? And how can one do it in the face of quantum computers? In this blog post, we examine these questions and explain what post-quantum signatures are
Lean Inception
An inception is an activity done at the start of a project to gather together the people involved and set a common direction and working style for the on-going work. The lean inception is a focused form of inception, which can be done in a single week. During this time we understand the key features and customers for the product, and build a canvas to formulate the characteristics of a Minimum Via
How To Develop A Text Editor For The Web — Smashing Magazine
How do text typing and editing work on the web? Although this process might seem straightforward, there is a lot of technical nuance behind its apparent simplicity. In this article, Ilya Medvedev will explain the challenges his company faced and the solutions they used to create a text widget in their application. He’ll also dive into how they implemented it and what they learned along the way — a
The post-quantum state: a taxonomy of challenges
At Cloudflare, we strive to help build a better Internet, which means a quantum-protected one. In this post, we look at the challenges for migrating to post-quantum cryptography and what lies ahead using a taxonomy
The quantum solace and spectre
What is quantum computing and what advances have been made so far on this front? In this blog post, we will answer this question and see how to protect against quantum adversaries
Results without all of the brackets
Things that used to be hard and are now easy
Things that used to be hard and are now easy
Returning values and errors
Detecting Magecart-Style attacks with Page Shield
How we’re using content-based analysis to identify Magecart-style attacks
(Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022
I linked to Jay's front-end predictions last year and I think they panned out pretty well.
How to Get an Engineering Internship at Shopify: A Complete Guide - Shopify
The complete guide to getting an internship at Shopify. Interns work on real projects, solve hard problems, and gain practical feedback along the way.
Top Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Netlify CLI
First things first, if you didn't know Netlify had a CLI, they do. One of my favorite things about it running the command netlify dev on nearly any
My "daily drivers", and what happened to Slackware here
A twisted maze of dependencies
Falling In Love With The Web: Inspiring Websites And Tools — Smashing Magazine
Have you come across a site recently that left you feeling inspired? Or maybe a handy little tool that helped you overcome a creative trough? We all need a little inspiration boost every now and again. In this post, we collected inspiring resources from all across the web for you — beautiful eye candy, tips to challenge your skills, and useful tools that are bound to spark new ideas. Enjoy!
The GitHub Stars in our eyes ⭐️
Over the past year, the GitHub Stars have made a tremendous impact in the community with their influence, inspiring and building communities and creating content to help everyone.
Announcing the 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
The MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring software engineers. Meet the 2022 cohort!
Add 4740180 to the list of silly magic numbers
Who won Super Bowl LVI? A look at Internet traffic during the big game
By now, everyone knows that the Los Angeles Rams won, but we also want to look at which Super Bowl advertisers were the biggest winners, and how traffic to food delivery services, social media and messaging apps, and sports and betting websites changed throughout the game
Why are hyperlinks blue?
The decision to make hyperlinks blue in Mosaic, and the reason why we see it happening in Cello at the same time, is that by 1993, blue was becoming the
Getting Started With the File System Access API
The File System Access API is a web API that allows read and write access to a user's local files. It unlocks new capabilities to build powerful web
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.
Feedback: environments, old BBSes, Honda's 2022 bug
We Want Your Feedback for the Shopify Engineering Blog - Shopify
Hello readers, We’re conducting a survey so we can get a better sense of the stories you’re interested in reading. The survey will take five minutes to complete.
Everything You Want To Know About Creating Voice User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine
Voice is a powerful tool that we can use to communicate with each other. This article covers the most critical aspects of designing for voice user interfaces: designing the conversation and designing visual interfaces.