Dynamic Process Isolation: Research by Cloudflare and TU Graz
Cloudflare worked with TU Graz to study the impact of Spectre on Cloudflare Workers and to develop new defenses against it. Today we're publishing a paper about our research.
WooCommerce + Google Analytics
Google Analytics is powerful analytics software. A common way to use it is to just slap the JavaScript snippet on every page template you have and let it
Apply now for GitHub Universe 2021 micro-mentoring
As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure GitHub’s conferences are accessible and inclusive to people from all walks of life, we’re offering 30-minute, 1:1 micro-mentoring sessions with GitHub employees.
An UPDATE without a WHERE, or something close to it
Useful React APIs For Building Flexible Components With TypeScript — Smashing Magazine
React with JSX is a fantastic tool for making easy-to-use components. Typescript components make it an absolute pleasure for developers to integrate your components into their apps and explore your APIs. Learn about three lesser-known React APIs that can take your components to the next level, and help you build even better React Components in this article.
Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers — Smashing Magazine
UXPin has recently launched a new feature called “Merge”. This tool aims to break through the chasms of design and development, all while improving the agility and quality our teams expect. This new technology may cause some rethink on how the whole design team and engineering team collaborates.
Announcing Cloudflare Research Hub
Announcing a new landing page where you can learn more about our research and additional resources.
Internship Experience: Research Engineer
Over the summer of 2020 I interned at Cloudflare Research. This invaluable experience contributed to Cloudflare’s support of ODoH protocol, and I was awarded the best student paper award at PETS 2021.
Cloudflare invites visiting researchers
As part of Cloudflare’s effort to build collaborations with academia, we host research focused internships all year long. Interns collaborate cross-functionally in research projects and are encouraged to ship code and write a blog post and a peer-reviewed publication at the end of their internship.
Cash (Tiny jQuery Alternative)
The README for Cash is straightforward:
Those "Get The App" Banners
Why would a company promote a native app over their perfectly usable website?
GitHub security update: revoking weakly-generated SSH keys
On September 28, 2021, we received notice from the developer Axosoft regarding a vulnerability in a dependency of their popular git GUI client – GitKraken. An underlying issue with a dependency, called `keypair`, resulted in the GitKraken client generating weak SSH keys.
Scaling indexing and search - Algolia New Search Architecture Part 2 - High Scalability -
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoine, Co-founder & CTO of Algolia, to describe what the future of search will look like. This is the second article in a series. Here's Part 1. Search engines need to support fast scaling for both Read and Write operations. Rapid scaling is essential in most use cases. For example, adding a vendor in a marketp
The Autofill Dark Pattern — Smashing Magazine
A “dark pattern” is a deceptive UX pattern that tricks users into doing things they may not really want to do. Autofill is a widespread feature either by choice or by accident: who hasn’t accepted to let the browser save/use web form information, either on purpose or by mistake? In this article, Alvaro Montoro does a little experiment to find out how much privacy is taken away from users across th
Cloudflare Research: Two Years In
What Cloudflare Research has been up to for the last two years.
Where is mobile traffic the most and least popular?
We used Cloudflare Radar to find out those countries on the planet that have more (and less) mobile traffic on the Internet. Africa and the Middle East are the areas of the planet where mobile traffic dominates the Internet experience
Composable CSS Animation In Vue With AnimXYZ — Smashing Magazine
Most animation libraries like GSAP and Framer Motion are built purely with JavaScript or TypeScript, unlike AnimXYZ, which is labelled “the first composable CSS animation toolkit”, built mainly with SCSS. While a simple library, it can be used to achieve a lot of awesome animation on the web in a short amount of time and little code. In this article, Ejiro Asiuwhu will show you how to use the Anim
What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data.
Helping Apache Servers stay safe from zero-day path traversal attacks (CVE-2021-41773)
On September 29th 2021, the Apache Security team was alerted of a path traversal vulnerability being actively exploited (zero-day) against Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.49. Customers running the affected Apache version, should update to 2.5.51 as soon as possible.
Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers
I saw this blog post the other day: 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics. That's an enticing title to me. I've had
The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
A good essay from Jean Yang.
Jekyll doesn't do components? Liar!
I like the pushback from Katie Kodes here. I've said in the past that I don't think server-side languages haven't quite nailed "building in components" as
Building a Tennis Trivia App With Next.js and Netlify
Today we will be learning how to build a tennis trivia app using Next.js and Netlify. This technology stack has become my go-to on many projects. It allows
Release Radar
The Northern Hemisphere has hit fall, and the southern is starting to warm into summer. September has been a busy time for our community. Maintainers have been getting their repositories…
