
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to , we’ve made climate action one of our five technology pillars and have been integrating sustainability into our everyday engineering practices. This year, climate action was the theme of our company-wide Hack Week, we made climate responsibility part of our official engineering handbook, and we partnered with Thoughtworks to release the Cloud Carbon Footprint pl

TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team is empowering and unblocking client developers and giving teams the tools they need to ensure a happy and satisfying developer experience (DX). In line with this, we wanted to improve the coding experience for our development teams through infrastructure changes. We conducted research among 318 engineers and learned that:

Back in June, I presented the current state of Spotify’s open source activities to our developers as part of our internal Spotify Engineering Conference, aka SpEC. In the presentation, I go over where we currently are with our open source efforts, what challenges we face, and the vision for where we are going.
SESpotify Engineering·October 1, 2022Languages 
Now that Cloudflare CASB is Generally Available, let’s take a look at how users have been leveraging other Cloudflare Zero Trust products with CASB, starting with Gateway

Join our open beta and start collecting telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers today!

Today, we are launching a new dataset called Radar Rankings, where we identify the top most popular domains that reflect how people use the Internet globally and per country.

The new Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC), launched as part of Radar 2.0, is intended to be an archive of information about Internet outages observed by Cloudflare
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David Belson, Stanley·September 30, 2022SRE & Ops 
Cloudflare Radar makes Internet trends, patterns and insights available to everyone, and we’re now making them even easier to find, understand and share.

If you have a Business or Pro subscription, soon you will receive a free allocation of Cloudflare Stream.

At Cloudflare, we believe the Internet should be accessible to everyone. And today, we’re happy to announce a more inclusive Cloudflare dashboard experience: adherence to the industry accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA and section 508 compliance.
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Rachel Jenkins, Emily Flannery·September 30, 2022Design & UX 
Our in-app browser for Facebook on Android has historically relied on an Android System WebView based on Chromium, the open source project that powers many browsers on Android and other operating systems. On other mobile operating systems, the System WebView component cannot be updated without updating the entire operating system. On Android, this works differently, […]
CWChris Wiltz·September 30, 2022Frontend 
A few tips for software engineers who want to deliver effective feedback during pull request reviews.

How about a little inspiration boost? Well, we might have something for you: desktop wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe. They are available in versions with and without a calendar for October and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!

Let's make the Web. Accessible.

Adopting a phishing resistant second factor, like a YubiKey with FIDO2, is the number one way to prevent phishing attacks. Cloudflare has used phishing resistant second factors only since February 2021, and these were the steps we took to accomplish that.
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Evan Johnson, Derek Pitts·September 29, 2022Security 
Announcing a new collaboration with Yubico, to remove any barriers for organizations of any size to deploying hardware security keys.
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Davidharnett·September 29, 2022Security 
There’s always a cat and mouse game between hackers and security companies. New attacks try to weaponize website links after emails have been delivered to mailboxes, and Email Link Isolation is here to revolutionize protection against those attacks.
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Joao, Tim Obezuk·September 29, 2022Security 
Starting today, Free, Pro and Business plans include Rate Limiting rules without additional charges.

Role Based Access Controls are now available for every plan!

The link between design culture, happiness, and hiring

Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community.

Tech can be a tricky industry (to say the least). We talked with three tech professionals who share why they stay, what has helped them the most, and the power of switching things up.

06:15 AM My two young kids come in waking me up, presenting me with iPads in the hopes of a quick game of Minecraft before school. I sometimes give in as it might mean a few more minutes sleep! 07:00 AM It’s time for the first of many oat flat whites — or oat flatties…

Throughout the research and design processes, our unconscious biases are the greatest risk to delivering inclusive experiences. From who we include and exclude in our research to how we plan and conduct research, it’s crucial that we understand how our unacknowledged biases can perpetuate systems of exclusion.