OPAQUE & PAKE Protocols
OPAQUE is a PAKE protocol that allows for password authentication without revealing the actual password to a server. Learn more about the OPAQUE protocol.
Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1
Oblivious DoH (ODoH) makes secure DNS over HTTPS (DoH) queries into private queries which prevent the leakage of client IP addresses to resolvers. The new proposed ODoH standard addresses this problem and today we are enabling users to use this protocol with 1.1.1.1
Helping build the next generation of privacy-preserving protocols
Today, we’re making several announcements around improving Internet protocols with respect to something important to our customers and Internet users worldwide: privacy.
Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data
Spoiler alert: There is no support for it yet. But it is defined in the Media Queries Level 5 spec that includes other recent, but more familiar user
TypeScript & Relevance
In our wide world of building for the web, we have every opportunity to talk about tools. We lunge to fill every gap we find in our projects with a definitive
Very Extremely Practical CSS Art
I've always enjoyed the CSS art people create, but I’ve never ventured into it much myself. I'm familiar with many of the tricks involved, but still find it
New from Universe 2020: Dark mode, GitHub Sponsors for companies, and more
Check out the latest announcements from GitHub Universe 2020, including dark mode, Sponsors for companies, improvements to Actions, dependency review, and more.
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Day 22: getting OAuth to work in Rails
Day 22: getting OAuth to work in Rails
Day 21: wrangling systemd & setting up git deploys to a VM
Day 21: wrangling systemd & setting up git deploys to a VM
How to Reliably Scale Your Data Platform for High Volumes - Shopify
In this post, we’ll outline the approach we took to reliably scale our data platform in preparation for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Building A Conversational N.L.P Enabled Chatbot Using Google’s Dialogflow — Smashing Magazine
The 2019 [Capgemini research institute](https://www.capgemini.com/research-institute/)’s report published after a research on the use of chat assistants showed a drastic 76% increase in customer satisfaction from organizations where chat assistants where built and incorporated into their services. But how does [Dialogflow](https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/docs), a product from Google’s ecosyste
Introducing the Cloudflare Data Localization Suite
The Data Localization Suite helps businesses get the performance and security benefits of Cloudflare’s global network while making it easy to set rules and controls at the edge about where their data is stored and protected.
Web Performance Calendar
The Web Performance Calendar just started up again this year. The first two posts so far are about, well, performance! First up, Rick Viscomi writes about the
Now you C me, now you don’t, part two: exploiting the in-between
Aimed at developers, in this series we introduce and explore the memory unsafe attack surface of interpreted languages.
Release Radar
We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for December 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…
Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community
Over the past few years, we have been striving to make VMAF a more usable tool not just for Netflix, but for the video community at large. This tech blog highlights our recent progress toward this…
The State of Ruby Static Typing at Shopify - Shopify
Shopify changes a lot. We merge around 400 commits to the main branch daily and deploy a new version of our core monolith 40 times a day. The Monolith is also big: 37,000 Ruby files, 622,000 methods, more than 2,000,000 calls. At this scale with a dynamic language, even with the most rigorous review process and over 150,000 automated tests, it’s a challenge to ensure everything works properly. Dev
Organizing 2000 Developers for BFCM in a Remote World - Shopify
With BFCM on the horizon, there is a lot of preparation that Shopify needs to do on our platform. This effort needs a key driver to set expectations for many teams and hold them accountable to complete the work.
How To Use MDX Stored In Sanity In A Next.js Website — Smashing Magazine
MDX gives you the minimalist ergonomics of Markdown with the flexibility of custom components. By combining MDX with Sanity and Next, you can build robust, team-friendly content editing experiences while keeping the pleasant and efficient developer experience of building Jamstack sites with React.
We Need You In The Smashing Family — Smashing Magazine
Do you like building relationships and exploring creative options? At Smashing, we are looking for a team member who’ll take good care of advertising and sponsorships across the range of everything we do at Smashing — from the magazine to our conferences. Interested? We’d love you to join us.
Welcome to Privacy & Compliance Week: Reflecting Values at Cloudflare’s Core
Over the course of the week, we'll be announcing ways that our customers can use our service in order to ensure they are in compliance with an increasingly complicated set of rules and laws around the world.
retvals, terrible teaching, and admitting we have a problem
Day 19: Clustering faces (poorly) using an autoencoder
Day 19: Clustering faces (poorly) using an autoencoder