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In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause
Content delivery networks, or CDNs, allow you to improve the delivery of your website’s static resources, most notably, with CDN caching. They do this by
Organizations with GitHub Advanced Security can now proactively protect against secret leaks with secret scanning’s new push protection feature.
Ever wondered how to build a paginated list that works with and without JavaScript? In this article, Manuel explains how you can leverage the power of Progressive Enhancement and do just that with Eleventy and Alpine.js.
Following Russia’s unjustified and tragic invasion of Ukraine in late February, the world has watched closely as Russian troops attempted to advance across Ukraine, only to be resisted and repelled by the Ukrainian people
We decided we’re going to stop using CAPTCHAs. Before we talk about how we did it, and how you can help, let's first start with a simple question. Why in the world is CAPTCHA still used anyway?
Next.js’ recent 12.0 release included a new beta feature: middleware. For a detailed explanation, you can read all about it in Sam’s previous article, “[Next.js Wildcard Subdomains](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/nextjs-wildcard-subdomains/)”. This article, on the other hand, dives into the overall concept of middleware and how handy it can be in building things.
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund) to pay maintainers of independent projects. This new initiative is about giving back to open source developers and is one of the ways we are investing in a more sustainable open source ecosystem for all of us. The fund will start at 100K EUR, with Spotify’s engineers nominating what projects should receive funds and our fun
(formerly ) is a platform that democratizes live audio streams. Creators are able to create rooms and stream live directly to fans who join the room. They can also interact directly with their fans either by text chatting in the app or bringing them up as speakers to interact by voice. But what about when the room ends? A creator could have had an incredible conversation they might want to preserv
In 2017, we launched the , a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, stop, and manage Spotify audio playback from the web. This post presents an overview of what you can do with the API, now called the Player API, and some background information about how it came to exist.
Cloudflare Managed Ruleset updates for the recent vulnerabilities affecting the Java Spring framework and related software components
This blogpost chronicles the recent CVEs investigation, our findings, and how we are helping secure Salt now and in the Quantum future
From Jan. 2021 to Jan. 2022, more than 8.5 million (of 56 million in total) brand phishing emails blocked by Area 1 impersonated the World Health Organization
We believe our technical interviews should be as similar as possible to the way we work at GitHub.
Hydrogen is a framework that combines React and Vite for creating custom storefronts on Shopify. It maximizes performance for end-users and provides a best-in-class developer experience for you and your team. Since it focuses on evergreen browsers, Hydrogen can leverage modern capabilities, best practices, and the latest tooling in web development to bring the future of ecommerce closer. Creating
Let’s welcome the new month with some new wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available in versions with and without a calendar for April 2022. Maybe you’ll rediscover one of your almost-forgotten favorites in there, too? Enjoy!
We recently covered creating fancy borders with CSS, and now we are going to cut the corners with gradients and CSS masks!
Data minimization — collecting the minimum amount of data required to support our services — is one of our core principles at Meta as we continue developing new privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). We are constantly seeking ways to improve privacy and protect user data on our family of products. Previously, we’ve approached data minimization by exploring […]
You need to help customers explore relevant entries, and to do so, you need to support and speed up browsing through entries. Infinite scroll can be designed well. Best practices and guidelines to improve the UX of infinite scroll with bookmarks, footer reveal and pagination.
CVE-2022-1096 is yet another zero day vulnerability affecting web browsers. Cloudflare zero trust mitigates the risk of zero day attacks in the browser and has been patched
More and more users are using Magic Firewall’s IP lists to filter network traffic en route to their infrastructure. In response to that growth, we improved how our systems handle large sets of IPs
How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident
Learn how to use DROP ROLE and DROP USER in PostgreSQL. This article explains how to remove users and gives troubleshooting tips.
