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The background image used in the hero component, which is slow to load, is a very common problem with any component that uses a large image file as a background image. In this article, Mike Herchel walks you through how to tackle this common performance issue using modern techniques.
Debugging Rust and Wasm with Cloudflare Workers involves a lot of the good old time-consuming and nerve-wracking printf'ing strategy. What if there’s a better way? This blog is about enabling and using Wasm core dumps and how you can easily debug Rust in Cloudflare Workers
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program! We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community in 2022!
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Most of the projects have at least a few unused files, exports, and dependencies lying around, often because it’s difficult knowing when one thing relies on another and scary removing something you’re not sure is in use. Lars Kappert shares a tool he’s been working on that offers a solution.
Easily manage storage with scheduled deletion for Cloudflare Stream, available for live recordings and on-demand video
Today, we are thrilled to share that customers can now debug their Queues directly from the Cloudflare dashboard. This new feature allows customers to send, list, and acknowledge messages in their Queues from the Cloudflare dashboard, enabling a more user-friendly way to interact with their Queues
Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
In part 2 of the series, Hannah Milan reviews various accessible text over images techniques for designing your content, including framing the image, soft-colored gradients technique, text styles and text position, solid color shapes, and use of colored backgrounds.
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky talks about design’s catalytic potential for business and the central role it played in Airbnb’s post-IPO growth story.
What does your performance “stack” look like? There are all kinds of tools available for measuring page speed, but what data and assumptions do they use to measure performance? And speaking of *measuring* performance, there’s quite a difference between that and *monitoring* performance. Let’s dig in!
Starting today, customers that use Cloudflare’s Advanced Certificate Manager can configure TLS settings on individual hostnames within a domain
Introducing two new secret scanning push protection features that will enable individual developers to protect all their pushes and organizations to gain insights and trends across their repositories.
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Researchers from Purdue and NCSU have found a large number of command injection vulnerabilities in the workflows of projects on GitHub. Follow these four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure.
Explore is one of the largest recommendation systems on Instagram. We leverage machine learning to make sure people are always seeing content that is the most interesting and relevant to them. Using more advanced machine learning models, like Two Towers neural networks, we’ve been able to make the Explore recommendation system even more scalable and […]
Announced as part of the Back to School Safely: K-12 Cybersecurity Summit at the White House on Aug 7, Proj Cybersafe Schools will support eligible K-12 public school districts with Zero Trust
GitHub’s design experts share 10 tips and lessons for designing magical user experiences for AI applications and AI coding tools.
What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
Meta is developing new privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to innovate and solve problems with less data. These technologies enable teams to build and launch privacy-enhanced products in a way that’s verifiable and safeguards user data. Using state-of-the-art cryptographic techniques, we have developed Private Data Lookup (PDL) that allows users to privately query a server-side data set. […] Rea
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Fixit is dead! Long live Fixit 2 – the latest version of our open-source auto-fixing linter. Fixit 2 allows developers to efficiently build custom lint rules and perform auto-fixes for their codebases. Fixit 2 is available today on PyPI. Python is one of the most popular languages in use at Meta. Meta’s production engineers (PEs) […]
Short-lived certificates (SLCs) are part of our latest efforts to further secure our Transport Layer Security (TLS) private keys on our edge networks. SLCs have a very short exposure compared to traditional certificates and lower the chances of a compromised private key being abused. Implementing SLCs has required us to address tradeoffs between operability and […]
