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Modern websites aren’t inseparable from screens any more. Between phone assistants, home speakers, and screen readers, more and more people are using the web without even looking at it. Websites need to evolve in kind. In the article, Frederickk O’Brien will try to break down what that means for websites going forward, what designers can do about it, and why this might finally be a leap forward to
Cloudflare is deprecating the __cfduid cookie. While we have never tracked end-users across sites or sell their personal data, we don’t want any customer to think they need a cookie banner because of what we do.
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings.
There, I said it.
In 2020, I rediscovered the enjoyment of building a website with plain ol’ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no transpilin’, no compilin’, no build tools other than
I found this Free Favicon Maker the other day. It’s a nice tool to make a favicon (true to its name), but unlike other favicon generators, this one lets you
Update/ upgrade: what's the difference? This blog post covers the best ways of upgrading or updating PostgreSQL to the latest release.
During the last year alone, over 56 million developers created more than 60 million new repos and made more than 1.9 billion contributions on GitHub. These developers are building the…
We detail the great momentum we’ve had with our partners at GitHub this past year, building a healthy ecosystem aimed at making our users more productive.
Facebook’s services rely on fleets of servers in data centers all over the globe — all running applications and delivering the performance our services need. This is why we need to make sure our server hardware is reliable and that we can manage server hardware failures at our scale with as little disruption to our […]
Research is an essential part of creating good UX. We are often in roles where we interact with our users in order to collect data to inform our UX. We need to ensure our UX research is compliant with ethical standards of research conducted with humans. To do this, we need to have an awareness of potential ethical issues in research, training on how to conduct ethical research, and a systematic re
A deep dive into the Encrypted Client Hello, a standard that encrypts privacy-sensitive parameters sent by the client, as part of the TLS handshake.
OPAQUE is a PAKE protocol that allows for password authentication without revealing the actual password to a server. Learn more about the OPAQUE protocol.
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
Today, we’re making several announcements around improving Internet protocols with respect to something important to our customers and Internet users worldwide: privacy.
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
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
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
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 21: wrangling systemd & setting up git deploys to a VM
In this post, we’ll outline the approach we took to reliably scale our data platform in preparation for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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
