Enforcing code reliability by requiring workflows with GitHub repository rules
GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can now ensure controlled workflows run and pass before code is merged into any of its repositories.
Tekla's ecommerce evolution: harnessing flexibility with Vercel and Medusa
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: deconstructing the record-breaking attack
This post dives into the details of the HTTP/2 protocol, the feature that attackers exploited to generate the massive Rapid Reset attacks
HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks
The “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. Cloudflare has mitigated a barrage of these attacks in recent months, including an attack three times larger than any previous attack we’ve observed
Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on code quality
Findings show that code quality is better across the board and developers felt more confident, too.
A High-Level Overview Of Large Language Model Concepts, Use Cases, And Tools — Smashing Magazine
Discuss the concept of large language models (LLMs) and how they are implemented with a set of data to develop an application. Joas compares a collection of no-code and low-code apps designed to help you get a feel for not only how the concept works but also to get a sense of what types of models are available to train AI on different skill sets.
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
Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on GNOME (CVE-2023-43641)
CVE-2023-43641 is a vulnerability in libcue, which can lead to code execution by downloading a file on GNOME.
Prompting GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility
GitHub Copilot Chat can help you learn about accessibility and improve the accessibility of your code. In this blog, we share a sample foundational prompt that instructs GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility.
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.
Unleashing Impact at Slack’s Data Engineering Internship
Introduction Ever wondered what it’s like to intern as a software engineer at Slack? Picture yourself on the famous Ohana floor—the 61st floor of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco— it is one of many privileges we had as interns. Not only did our experience with Slack’s Data Engineering team let us step onto the…
Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Discover how to incorporate a variety of media formats, such as images, videos, GIFs, SVGs, and so on, in a Gatsby website. Juan Rodriguez shares what he’s learned about optimizing files for improved performance after working with different plugins and techniques.
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
Uncovering the Hidden WebP vulnerability: a tale of a CVE with much bigger implications than it originally seemed
Google announced a security issue in Chrome titled "Heap buffer overflow in WebP in Google Chrome." At first it seemed like just another bug, but has implications that extended well beyond Chrome.
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.
Dan Mall’s 10 principles for a worthy design career
Dan Mall distills decades of experience navigating the design world into ten pieces of advice for tackling complex tasks, preventing burnout, and fostering continuous learning.
A developer’s guide to open source LLMs and generative AI
Open source generative AI projects are a great way to build new AI-powered features and apps.
Meta contributes new features to Python 3.12
Python 3.12 is out! It includes new features and performance improvements – some contributed by Meta – that we believe will benefit all Python users. We’re sharing details about these new features that we worked closely with the Python community to develop. This week’s release of Python 3.12 marks a milestone in our efforts to […]
ASCII protocol buffers as config files
Re-Creating The Pop-Out Hover Effect With Modern CSS (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Re-create a fancy hover effect where an avatar pops out of a starburst pattern for the frame on hover. The idea is to apply the concepts in a new context and gain another view of how trigonometric functions can influence the way we mask elements in CSS.
Spend Management: Realtime Usage Alerts, SMS Notifications, and Project Pausing
New controls to help you safely scale your projects and prevent unexpected bills.
1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4, 2023
On 4 October 2023, Cloudflare experienced DNS resolution problems. Some users may have received SERVFAIL DNS responses to valid queries. In this blog, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again
All Cloudflare customers protected from the Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22515
On 2023-10-04 at 13:00 UTC, Atlassian released details of the zero-day vulnerability described as “Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server” (CVE-2023-22515), a zero-day vulnerability impacting Confluence Server and Data Center products
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
