15 minutes read — 3131 words The internet is not as good as it used to be. Information is siloed into walled gardens like Facebook, Nextdoor, and so on. Google results are saturated with SEO spam. WordPress is a mess … Read more
Fourth quarter revenue totaled $193.6 million, representing an increase of 54% year-over-year; fiscal year 2021 revenue totaled $656.4 million, representing an increase of 52% year-over-year Record dollar-based net retention of 125%, representing an increase of 600 basis points year-over-year, driven … Read more
A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor. For the last few years, various websites hosted on GitHub Pages and fronted using CloudFlare have been blocked in India due to CloudFlare relying on a upstream network provider with … Read more
First, I’m going to teach you to fish. Go to hCaptcha’s website, then scroll to the footer. Click around on the about links. It’ll reveal their business model. This trick also works for other businesses and NGOs. Now, if we … Read more
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I’m a huge fan of the various Cloudflare offerings, and have been impressed time after time with the innovations and solutions offered by CF. This writeup therefore pains me, as I usually don’t have anything negative to say about CF, … Read more
Disclaimer: Thoughts expressed here are my own, and not of my employers. Recently Cloudflare released their FIDO based CAPTCHA replacement. You can read more about it https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attestation-of-personhood/, and try it here https://cloudflarechallenge.com/. In the nutshell the way it works: User … Read more
Matthew Prince, at the end of his prepared remarks after Cloudflare’s recent earnings report, related a story from the company’s earliest days: Back in 2010, right before Cloudflare’s first Board meeting and our launch, I got some advice from one … Read more
In December, we announced the beta of Cloudflare Pages: a fast, secure, and free way for frontend developers to build, host, and collaborate on Jamstack sites. It’s been incredible to see what happens when you put a powerful tool in … Read more