
Owing to tremendous advancements in Machine Learning and other technologies, chatbots have increased in popularity in the past few years. This article will show you, step by step, how to build a chatbot that meets your business goals.
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Devansh Bansal·October 7, 2022AI & ML 
Integrate two-factor authentication into your Express.js app by building an application that authenticates users using password-based authentication and OTPs powered by the Twilio Verify service.
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Alexander Godwin·October 7, 2022Security 
Today, we’re excited to announce Total TLS — a one-click feature that will issue individual TLS certificates for every subdomain in our customer’s domains

Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into

Designer Jackie Chui on how we translated learnings from a plugin to build a native functionality

We’re excited that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the 2022 edition of its Global Innovation Index (GII) with an indicator of developer creative outputs based on GitHub commits.

Cross-platform apps built with the popular Flutter toolkit can now benefit from Dependabot alerts.
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Eric Tooley, Courtney Claessens·October 6, 2022Security 
The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.

Starting in a couple of weeks, and continuing through the end of the year, we’re hosting a series of Zero Trust Roadshows in various North American cities

Cloudflare Stream now supports the AV1 codec for live video in open beta, unlocking live-streaming at higher resolution, with lower bandwidth
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Renan, Brendan Irvine Broque·October 5, 2022Engineering 
Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security.
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Brittany O'Shea, Mariam Sulakian·October 5, 2022Security 
In September, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We also experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We are still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in August and an incident that impacted Actions in August.

Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground.

GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.

How we built Flex Comp: Shopify's new approach to compensation that gives employees the ability to choose how they want to allocate their total reward between base salary, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Stock Options today, with new features like Shop Cash in the future.

We can use the `clamp()` method today because of the great browser support. In this article, Brecht De Ruyte explains how it can be a beautiful addition to your upcoming project or as an upgrade to a previous one.
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Brecht De Ruyte·October 5, 2022Frontend 
The State of CSS survey recently opened up. Last year, the survey confirmed everyone's assumptions that TailwindCSS is super popular and CSS variables are

This is a post about Shoelace, a component library by Cory LaViska, but with a twist. It defines all your standard UX components: tabs, modals, accordions,

Did you ever wonder why VACUUM does not shrink PostgreSQL data files? Learn all the most useful secrets of VACUUM.
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig·October 4, 2022Databases 
Nerding out on the details, pitching plugins, and sub-components—the creative team behind Schema tells us what they’re looking forward to this year.

Give back to open source projects during the month of October! This year, we’re encouraging more than code contributions: writing, design, advocacy, and financial donations.

Recommendations from Shopify's Data Migrations team for adding NOT NULL columns safely to your own database tables, based on a recent investigation into schema change safety using using the popular Large Hadron Migrator (LHM) gem.
SEShopify Engineering·October 4, 2022Databases 
The future of a private and secure Internet is at stake; that is why today we have enabled post-quantum cryptography support for all our customers

Cloudflare's 12th birthday week: 36 announcements ranging from SIM cards to post quantum encryption via hardware keys and so much more. Here’s a review of everything we announced this week
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John Graham Cumming·October 3, 2022Security 
Every connection we make post-quantum secure, we remove one opportunity for compromise: that's why we are announcing post-quantum Cloudflare Tunnel to help you secure every connection to our network

Today we’re excited to announce that we will soon be offering a zero-configuration option for security on Cloudflare. If we find that we can automatically upgrade the security connection between Cloudflare and a user’s origin, we will

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.38.

Internships are a great opportunity for companies to invest in great talent and train future engineers. It is important to prepare a good mentorship plan for the interns, so that they make the best use of their time and acquire experiences that will help make them full-time employees in the future. The first step is…

Shared Element Transitions API is a game-changing feature that will enable us to create impressive and elaborate UI animations easily. In this article, Adrian Bece will explore its incredible potential by building four real-life examples from scratch.

This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading. I did this so that I could easily read this and, after reading it, I've found that most accountings of what was said are, in one way or another, fairly misleading. Since the texts aren't all that long, if y

TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to , we’ve made climate action one of our five technology pillars and have been integrating sustainability into our everyday engineering practices. This year, climate action was the theme of our company-wide Hack Week, we made climate responsibility part of our official engineering handbook, and we partnered with Thoughtworks to release the Cloud Carbon Footprint pl

TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team is empowering and unblocking client developers and giving teams the tools they need to ensure a happy and satisfying developer experience (DX). In line with this, we wanted to improve the coding experience for our development teams through infrastructure changes. We conducted research among 318 engineers and learned that:

Back in June, I presented the current state of Spotify’s open source activities to our developers as part of our internal Spotify Engineering Conference, aka SpEC. In the presentation, I go over where we currently are with our open source efforts, what challenges we face, and the vision for where we are going.
SESpotify Engineering·October 1, 2022Languages 
Now that Cloudflare CASB is Generally Available, let’s take a look at how users have been leveraging other Cloudflare Zero Trust products with CASB, starting with Gateway

Join our open beta and start collecting telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers today!

Today, we are launching a new dataset called Radar Rankings, where we identify the top most popular domains that reflect how people use the Internet globally and per country.

The new Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC), launched as part of Radar 2.0, is intended to be an archive of information about Internet outages observed by Cloudflare
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David Belson, Stanley·September 30, 2022SRE & Ops 
Cloudflare Radar makes Internet trends, patterns and insights available to everyone, and we’re now making them even easier to find, understand and share.

If you have a Business or Pro subscription, soon you will receive a free allocation of Cloudflare Stream.

At Cloudflare, we believe the Internet should be accessible to everyone. And today, we’re happy to announce a more inclusive Cloudflare dashboard experience: adherence to the industry accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA and section 508 compliance.
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Rachel Jenkins, Emily Flannery·September 30, 2022Design & UX 
Our in-app browser for Facebook on Android has historically relied on an Android System WebView based on Chromium, the open source project that powers many browsers on Android and other operating systems. On other mobile operating systems, the System WebView component cannot be updated without updating the entire operating system. On Android, this works differently, […]
CWChris Wiltz·September 30, 2022Frontend 
A few tips for software engineers who want to deliver effective feedback during pull request reviews.

How about a little inspiration boost? Well, we might have something for you: desktop wallpapers created with love by artists and designers from across the globe. They are available in versions with and without a calendar for October and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!

Let's make the Web. Accessible.

Adopting a phishing resistant second factor, like a YubiKey with FIDO2, is the number one way to prevent phishing attacks. Cloudflare has used phishing resistant second factors only since February 2021, and these were the steps we took to accomplish that.
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Evan Johnson, Derek Pitts·September 29, 2022Security 
Announcing a new collaboration with Yubico, to remove any barriers for organizations of any size to deploying hardware security keys.
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Davidharnett·September 29, 2022Security 
There’s always a cat and mouse game between hackers and security companies. New attacks try to weaponize website links after emails have been delivered to mailboxes, and Email Link Isolation is here to revolutionize protection against those attacks.
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Joao, Tim Obezuk·September 29, 2022Security 
Starting today, Free, Pro and Business plans include Rate Limiting rules without additional charges.

Role Based Access Controls are now available for every plan!

The link between design culture, happiness, and hiring

Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community.

Tech can be a tricky industry (to say the least). We talked with three tech professionals who share why they stay, what has helped them the most, and the power of switching things up.

06:15 AM My two young kids come in waking me up, presenting me with iPads in the hopes of a quick game of Minecraft before school. I sometimes give in as it might mean a few more minutes sleep! 07:00 AM It’s time for the first of many oat flat whites — or oat flatties…

Throughout the research and design processes, our unconscious biases are the greatest risk to delivering inclusive experiences. From who we include and exclude in our research to how we plan and conduct research, it’s crucial that we understand how our unacknowledged biases can perpetuate systems of exclusion.

In this article, Wix security experts share ten “security by design” principles that emerged from their work in keeping the Wix platform secure. If you’re a developer, these tried-and-true principles can help you build your own secure applications.
WSWix Security Team·September 29, 2022Security 
Find out how basement.studio balanced performance, entertainment, and reliability for MrBeast's new storefront.

Any website can use a simple API to replace CAPTCHAs with our invisible alternative, whether they’re on the Cloudflare network or not.

Cloudflare is excited to announce that we are releasing a free version of Magic Networking Monitoring (previously called Flow Based Monitoring). Magic Network Monitoring receives network flow data from a customer’s router(s) and provides network traffic analytics via Cloudflare’s dashboard.

We’re pleased to introduce Cloudflare’s free Botnet Threat Feed for Service Providers. This includes all types of service providers, ranging from hosting providers to ISPs and cloud compute providers.

Introducing Privacy Edge – a collection of products that make it easier for site owners and developers to protect their users’ privacy by default.