Writing poems using LLama 2 on Workers AI
Matthew and Michelle, co-founders of Cloudflare, published their annual founders’ letter today. The letter ends with a poem written by an AI running using Workers AI on Cloudflare’s global network.
What AI companies are building with Cloudflare
Cloudflare enables various AI applications. We asked AI companies using Cloudflare how they leverage our platform for their innovative projects.
How I used GitHub Copilot Chat to build a ReactJS gallery prototype
GitHub Copilot Chat can help developers create prototypes, understand code, make UI changes, troubleshoot errors, make code more accessible, and generate unit tests.
Welcome to connectivity cloud: the modern way to connect and protect your clouds, networks, applications and users
Surveys of IT and security leaders indicate that 72% would highly value a secure “any-to-any” cloud platform. And they said they would invest an average of 16% of their entire IT and security budget in such a platform
Amazon’s $2bn IPv4 tax — and how you can avoid paying it
In this blog, we’ll explain a little bit more about the technology involved, but most importantly, give you a step-by-step walkthrough of how Cloudflare can help you eliminate the need to pay Amazon for something that they shouldn’t be charging you for in the first place
Sippy helps you avoid egress fees while incrementally migrating data from S3 to R2
Use Sippy to incrementally migrate data from S3 to R2 as it’s requested and avoid migration-specific egress fees
Traffic anomalies and notifications with Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare Radar now displays country and ASN traffic anomalies in the Outage Center as they are detected, as well as publishing anomaly information via API. We are also launching Radar notifications, enabling users to subscribe to notifications about traffic anomalies
Gone offline: how Cloudflare Radar detects Internet outages
Cloudflare Radar will be publishing anomalous traffic events for countries and Autonomous Systems (ASes). These events are the same ones referenced above that have been triggering our internal workflow to validate and confirm disruptions
Image optimization made simpler and more predictable: we’re merging Cloudflare Images and Image Resizing
We’re changing how we bill for Image Resizing to let you calculate your monthly costs more accurately and reliably. All Image Resizing features will be available under Cloudflare Images
How GitHub uses GitHub Actions and Actions larger runners to build and test GitHub.com
Recently, we’ve been working to make our CI experience better by leveraging the newly released GitHub feature, Actions larger runners, to run our CI.
Your ultimate guide to the GitHub Universe ‘23 agenda
Get a sneak peek into the must-attend sessions, speakers, workshops, and GitHub certifications available at our global developer event.
Getting RCE in Chrome with incorrect side effect in the JIT compiler
In this post, I’ll exploit CVE-2023-3420, a type confusion in Chrome that allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site.
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
Getting Started With Neon Branching — Smashing Magazine
Branches are a really nice (and safe) way to configure or reconfigure your database without fear of screwing up the production database. Let’s take a closer look at how branching works with [Neon](https://bit.ly/46cEgX1), and the good news is, you probably already know how it works!
Smashing Podcast Episode 65 With Alex Older: How Do You Run A Grassroots Conference? — Smashing Magazine
We’re talking about running grassroots conferences and meet-ups. What does it take to organize a small industry event for your community? Drew McLellan talks to WDC’s Alex Older to find out.
First Input Delay (FID) vs. Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
Learn about the differences between FID and INP and how to optimize your website's INP score.
How Cloudflare’s systems dynamically route traffic across the globe
Meet the smartest member of the Cloudflare network team that helps keep you online no matter what happens to the Internet underneath us
Switching to Cloudflare can cut your network carbon emissions up to 96% (and we're joining the SBTi)
We’re excited to share an independent report this week that found that switching enterprise network services from on premises devices to Cloudflare services can cut carbon emissions up to 96%
Announcing Cloudflare Incident Alerts
Customers may now subscribe to Cloudflare Incident Alerts and choose when to get notified based on affected products and level of impact
Cloudflare Fonts: enhancing website font privacy and speed
Introducing Cloudflare Fonts. Enhance privacy and performance for websites using Google Fonts by loading fonts from their own origin. Improve user privacy, enhance site performance, and simplify the process. No need for code changes. Simply enable Cloudflare Fonts in your dashboard
Cloudflare account permissions, how to use them, and best practices
Cloudflare has a lot of new roles, how should we use them, and how can we stay safe
Cloudflare Stream Low-Latency HLS support now in Open Beta
Cloudflare Stream’s LL-HLS support enters open beta today. You can deliver video to your audience faster, reducing the latency a viewer may experience on their player to as little as 3 seconds
Traffic transparency: unleashing the power of Cloudflare Trace
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Trace! Cloudflare Trace is available to all our customers. Cloudflare Trace enables you to understand how HTTP requests traverse your zone's configuration and what Cloudflare Rules are being applied to the request
EU hosting for Figma and FigJam files
Figma announces new EU hosting options for Figma and FigJam files. Read more on our commitment to data security and what this means for Enterprise plan customers.
Calling all teachers! Learn how to build new commands on the GitHub Classroom CLI
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll dive into how you can become the next open source contributor to the GitHub Classroom CLI, building commands that you can use to improve your workflow as an educator!
Expressing my laziness in concrete ways
WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Adrian’s kicking off a two-part series, sharing his journey as a lead developer. In the process, you will learn about the lessons and insights Adrian gained at work, including the strategies that went into the technical stack of the project and what it looks like to collaborate with a team he is leading for the first time.
Welcome to Birthday Week 2023
Building the future is, in part, what Birthday Week is about. Over the past 13 years we’ve announced things like Universal SSL (doubling the size of the encrypted web overnight), or Cloudflare Workers (helping change the way people build and scale applications). This year will be no different
Typo traps: analyzing traffic to exmaple.com (or is it example.com?)
Cloudflare has owned exmaple.com for a few years now, but don’t confuse it with example.com! example.com is a reserved domain name set by the IANA, under the direction of the IETF.
What codegen is (actually) good for
Codegen isn't a replacement, but an extension of your programming. In this post, we share recommendations for using codegen to augment your workflows.
The Path To Awesome CSS Easing With The linear() Function — Smashing Magazine
With the new CSS `linear()` easing function on the horizon, the possibilities of what we can do to create natural-feeling animations and transitions in the future are greatly expanded. Jhey Tompkins looks at the current state of CSS easing in this article and demonstrates what we can expect from `linear()`, including handy tools to get your hands on it today.
Cloudflare Email Security now works with CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale
With this integration, joint customers who have both Falcon LogScale and Cloudflare Email Security can now send detection data to be ingested and displayed within their Falcon LogScale dashboard
Citus: 7 commonly used advanced SQL tools
How to use 6 commonly-needed SQL tools in Citus. When you run advanced SQL in Citus, what's possible? What SQL statements work? Find out.
Issue no.1: Break out of the box
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
The GitHub Security Lab’s journey to disclosing 500 CVEs in open source projects
The GitHub Security Lab audits open source projects for security vulnerabilities and helps maintainers fix them. Recently, we passed the milestone of 500 CVEs disclosed. Let’s take a trip down memory lane with a review of some noteworthy CVEs!
Passkeys are generally available
All GitHub.com users can now register a passkey to sign in without a password.
Announcing the GitHub Innovation Graph
Explore a universe of data about how the world is building software together on GitHub.
The customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed ssh
How Whop improved their Real Experience Score by 200% with the Next.js App Router
Why Vercel and Next.js are the perfect fit for this global fashion media group
How Waiting Room makes queueing decisions on Cloudflare's highly distributed network
We want to give you a behind the scenes look at how we have evolved the core mechanism of our product–namely, exactly how it kicks in to queue traffic in response to spikes
Work has changed. New research tells us why and what we might do about it
A new study highlights three forces shaping the future of work, and what sets the best teams apart from the chaos.
GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals
All GitHub Copilot for Individuals users now have access to GitHub Copilot Chat beta, bringing natural language-powered coding to every developer in all languages.
Introducing Learning Paths on Global Campus
Guiding student developers through skill building foundations, a building block in their learning journey with GitHub Education.
Announcing general availability of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now generally available. Enable secret scanning, dependency scanning, and code scanning on your organization directly in Azure DevOps configuration settings.
Memories of a really goofy phone from the late 80s
Facilitating Inclusive Online Workshops (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
To help ensure the success of a workshop, Ben Shih introduces the concept of an inclusive workshop. In Part 2 of the series, you will continue to delve deeper into several key principles and guidelines that you can follow during and after the workshop to encourage an inclusive atmosphere.
The untapped opportunity at the bottom of your customer funnel
Businesses spend vast resources attracting customers, only to lose sales at the very last stage of the customer journey—the checkout. We’re releasing new features to our optimized checkout suite to help businesses change that.
New! Rate Limiting analytics and throttling
Cloudflare Analytics can now suggest rate limiting threshold based on historic traffic patterns. Rate Limiting also supports a throttle behavior
Citus: Row store vs. column store in PostgreSQL
Row store vs. column store - what is the best option? Are column stores “always cool”? Find out in the context of PostgreSQL and Citus.
Add extra stuff to a "standard" encoding? Sure, why not.
Switching from Bitbucket Server and Bamboo to GitHub just got easier
Starting today, GitHub Enterprise Importer supports repository migrations from Bitbucket Server and Bitbucket Data Center, and GitHub Actions Importer offers CI/CD migrations from Bitbucket and Bamboo.
Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator
One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly what this little bugger does, and learn how it can help us solve practical problems.
How Smashing Magazine Uses TinaCMS To Manage An Editorial Workflow
This article is a peek behind the curtain of how content is managed here at Smashing Magazine. In it, you’ll get a tour of an article’s full lifecycle, from a basic outline to the sort of thing you’re reading right this second.
Making Content Security Policies (CSPs) easy with Page Shield
We just deployed a number of updates to our Client-Side Security Product: Page Shield. As of today we support all major CSP directives, better suggestions, better violation reporting, Page Shield specific user role permissions, and domain insights
"hired" vs. "fired" - fuzzy search in PostgreSQL
How to implement community open source PostgreSQL to do a fuzzy search & get better results. Find out how to use the fuzzystrmatch extension.
Meet the nonprofit training formerly incarcerated people for careers in UX design
Oakland, California-based CROP Organization wants to forge a better path for those facing the challenges of reentry.
Revealing Images With CSS Mask Animations — Smashing Magazine
Let’s play with images and experiment with CSS masks. The idea is fairly simple: take a single `` tag and harness the power of CSS to accomplish complex hover transitions. Through different demos, you will see how CSS masks combined with gradients allow us to create fancy effects — with efficient, reusable code.
Introducing auto-triage rules for Dependabot
Make quick work of alerts with preset and custom rules.
In a git repository, where do your files live?
In a git repository, where do your files live?