Building a better First Draft for designers
We’re reintroducing our Make Designs feature with some key improvements, including a new name—First Draft
Legacy Modernization meets GenAI
So far, most attention to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in software development is on generating code. But we believe there is as much, if not more, value in understanding existing code - particularly long-lived, large, and complex legacy systems. We have been experimenting with GenAI for modernization with our clients, embodied in a tool called CodeConcise, which combines a Large Lan
How I Built My Blog
I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work.
Preventing infrastructure abuse with Vercel Firewall
DDoS resilience in the face of modern threats on the Vercel Firewall to automatically shield customers and maintain service availability
Start auditing and controlling the AI models accessing your content
Cloudflare customers on any plan can now audit and control how AI models access the content on their site.
Introducing Ephemeral IDs: a new tool for fraud detection
As the Internet evolves, Turnstile does too. Introducing Ephemeral IDs — a new dimension in detecting fraudulent activity, bot or human, that links behavior to a specific client instead of an IP address. This makes Turnstile better for everyone, everywhere.
Network performance update: Birthday Week 2024
Since June 2021, we’ve been measuring and ranking our network performance against the top global networks in the world. We use this data to improve our performance, and to share the results of those initiatives. In this post, we’re going to share with you how network performance has changed since our last post in March 2024, and discuss the tools and processes we are using to assess network perfor
The selectmenu Element is No More…Long Live select!
I was looking over an older article Patrick Brosset penned for us introducing <selectmenu>, a new proposal at the time for a more style-able cousin
GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency: How we built the next evolution of GitHub Enterprise using GitHub
How we used GitHub to build GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.
More jabbering from me about non-clown hosting
Driving a Project: Intern Edition
After a lot of hard work, you’ve landed that coveted internship. Now comes the next big challenge: delivering a meaningful project over the summer. Leading a project independently is an opportunity to sharpen your skills, demonstrate your capabilities, and experience personal growth. As you drive the project on your own, the support from your mentor…
The Timeless Power Of Spreadsheets — Smashing Magazine
In this age of endless newfangled organizational tools, the spreadsheet holds firm. Frederick O’Brien explains how, from engineering to design, they can still provide a rock-solid foundation for your work.
Cloudflare’s 2024 Annual Founders’ Letter
Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. This week we celebrate our fourteenth birthday
A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff
Removing uncertainty through "what-if" capacity planning
Cloudflare’s Capacity Planning team discusses planning for “what-if” type scenarios, and how they’ve introduced a new “Scenario Planner” system to quickly model hypothetical future changes
Cloudflare incident on September 17, 2024
On September 17, 2024, during planned routine maintenance, Cloudflare stopped announcing 15 IPv4 prefixes, affecting some Business plan websites for approximately one hour. During this time, IPv4 traffic for these customers would not have reached Cloudflare and users attempting to connect to websites using addresses within those prefixes would have received errors.
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-09-18)
For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing about Anchor Positioning, and with many
Quick Hit #21
Seeing a lot more headlines decrying JavaScript and pumping up PHP. Always interesting to see which direction the front-end zeitgeist is leaning.
AI SDK 3.4
AI SDK 3.4 introduces middleware, data stream protocol, and multi-step generations
From CDNs to Frontend Clouds
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Infrastructure as code (IaC) evolved into the next generation of web application delivery.
How Cloudflare is helping domain owners with the upcoming Entrust CA distrust by Chrome and Mozilla
Chrome and Mozilla will stop trusting Entrust’s public TLS certificates issued after November 2024 due to concerns about Entrust’s compliance with security standards. In response, Entrust is partnering with SSL.com to continue providing trusted certificates. Cloudflare will support SSL.com as a CA, simplifying certificate management for customers using Entrust by automating issuance and renewals.
The VS Code method: Tightening a developer’s inner loop
How VS Code gets developers into the flow state
Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models
OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini are now available in GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and in the GitHub Models playground.
Embracing Introversion In UX — Smashing Magazine
This article aims to celebrate the power of introversion in UX research and design. Victor Yocco debunks common misconceptions, explores the unique strengths introverted researchers and designers bring to the table, and offers practical tips for thriving in a field that sometimes seems tailored for extroverts.
