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SRE & Ops — Tunnel: Cloudflare’s Newest Homeowner

Tunnel: Cloudflare’s Newest Homeowner

Starting today, users who deploy and manage Cloudflare Tunnel at scale now have easier visibility into their Tunnel’s respective status, routes, uptime, connectors, cloudflared version, and much more through our new UI in the Cloudflare for Teams Dashboard.

AAbeAbe·October 18, 2021SRE & Ops
Engineering — A Simple But Effective Mental Health Routine For Programmers — Smashing Magazine

A Simple But Effective Mental Health Routine For Programmers — Smashing Magazine

Maintaining optimal mental health is critical for programmers because most of our work is more mentally demanding than it is physically. However, building and maintaining a reliable and rewarding strategy to maintain a healthy balance in our work demands can be a challenge. In this article, we’ll look at why taking care of our work-life balance is important, how to develop a simple and effective m

DODave OscarDave Oscar·October 16, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Multi-User IP Address Detection

Multi-User IP Address Detection

We’ve devised novel methods to detect multi-user IP addresses, and today we’re excited to announce their integration into our global threat intelligence products. These will improve the quality of our detection techniques and reduce false positives for our customers, and the clients that visit them.

CCloudflare·October 15, 2021Engineering
Design & UX — Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers — Smashing Magazine

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers — Smashing Magazine

Customers may start using your app because you offer a unique product, but user experience is what makes them stay. For that, you need excellent UX designers, and the know-how to spot them when hiring. This article is about the essentials of evaluating potential designers and design agencies you wish to hire. Getting this right is more important than ever.

NSNataliya SambirNataliya Sambir·October 15, 2021Design & UX
Security — Research Directions in Password Security

Research Directions in Password Security

We've been studying password problems, including malicious logins using compromised credentials. Here's what we learned and here's where we think we can go from here with safer password systems.

IMIan, MarinaIan, Marina·October 14, 2021Security
Frontend — Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges — Smashing Magazine

Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges — Smashing Magazine

Writing CSS has probably never been more fun and exciting than it is today. In this post we’ll take a look at common problems and use cases we all have to face in our work and how to solve them with modern CSS. If you’re interested, we’ve also just recently covered [CSS auditing tools](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/), [CSS generators](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/

CMCosima MielkeCosima Mielke·October 14, 2021Frontend
Engineering — Cloudflare and the IETF

Cloudflare and the IETF

Cloudflare helps build a better Internet through collaboration on open and interoperable standards. This post will describe how Cloudflare contributes to the standardization process to enable incremental innovation and drive long-term architectural change.

JHJonathan Hoyland, ChristopherJonathan Hoyland, Christopher·October 13, 2021Engineering
Languages — Pairings in CIRCL

Pairings in CIRCL

Our Go cryptographic library CIRCL announces support for pairing-based cryptography.

AWArmfazh, WatsonArmfazh, Watson·October 13, 2021Languages
Frontend — Bonsai Browser

Bonsai Browser

Web-browser for research that helps programmers think clearly.

CCChris Coyier·October 13, 2021Frontend