João Tomé
@emot
Telling stories @Cloudflare and @CloudflareRadar. Previously journalist @Publico SIC @dinheiro_vivo, etc. Discoverer. Human🇵🇹. Tech, cinema, cars. Podcaster.
The most interesting thing in tech: @Cloudflare has built a new tool that allows publishers to identify, track, and block any AI bots that are scraping their sites without permission. Here Gitesh Gohel and I explain the spreadsheet we've built to decide who to block --- and then…
Can't believe @6a6763 and I started This Week in NET back in 2022. Three years, four seasons, and 100 episodes later, it's still going strong! We’re celebrating episode 100 in two parts: this recent chat I had with John, and clips from our amazing guests (part 2 coming soon).
🎉 100 episodes of TWiN — #ThisWeekInNET! From Universal SSL to Workers, Cloudflare’s John Graham-Cumming (@6a6763) reflects on the biggest moments, the importance of the blog, and what’s next. Watch here: youtu.be/vWjgn7WpQQs #Cloudflare @CloudflareDev #UniversalSSL
Oh come on, how hard could it be to keep these links working forever? It could be like a 5-line Worker backed by KV and you'd never have to touch it once deployed. theverge.com/news/713125/go…
Satellite #Internet provider @Starlink is currently experiencing a network-wide outage. They have acknowledged the outage, but have not yet provided information on a cause. x.com/Starlink/statu…
Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved.
My latest post for the @Cloudflare blog. Frequent #Internet shutdowns returned in Q2, and power outages wreaked havoc on Internet connectivity in affected areas. Read the post to learn more about how these, and other disruptions, are visible in @CloudflareRadar.
Internet shutdowns disrupted connectivity in multiple countries in Q2 2025, as did power outages, cable damage, technical problems, and a cyberattack. See the impacts though a Cloudflare Radar lens at cfl.re/46n56zi
The latest round of #Internet shutdowns in #Syria to prevent cheating on high schol exams is half complete. with three more scheduled through August 3. Exams in some governorates have been rescheduled due to ongoing conflict. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/sy?dat…
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the Moon—and with them, the world took a giant leap. That moment sparked a legacy of exploration that continues today as @NASA and its partners advance toward Artemis II and prepare for the next great frontier: Mars.
Heyo, it's been a while since I've asked for feedback from people using @CloudflareDev What pain points do you have using our platform? This may be as someone just getting started, using our platform for a while or someone who has been using us for years. It's easy to forget…
The death of the web has been predicted before—at the hands of social networks, then smartphone apps—and not come to pass. But AI may pose the biggest threat to it yet economist.com/business/2025/…
Mark Twain: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
One weird trick!
Our @vercel bill before @Cloudflare, and after Cloudflare proxy.
Blog post about 1.1.1.1 outage yesterday is live. This post goes into details about what led to the configuration change that caused the incident. It was not caused by a route leak.
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS:…
🇫🇷 On Bastille Day (July 14), Internet traffic in France dropped 13% compared with the previous week, and was also down 13% the day before. On June 21, during Fête de la Musique, daily traffic dipped 12%. National celebrations = slower online activity.
. @levelsio If you have questions on this topic, I'm doing a Q&A episode in a few weeks (you can use ThisWeekinNET @ cloudflare . com) x.com/Cloudflare/sta…
🚀 New #ThisWeekInNET episode! Cloudflare’s Will Allen joins us to talk Pay-Per-Crawl and Content Independence Day (with a Matthew Prince cameo). How can content creators get paid when AI bots crawl their work? Big shift to opt-in. Watch here: youtu.be/Hp-uCchlgic #PayPerCrawl
true story. I'm still thinking of a 9-year-old type of advices, but sometimes my 9-year-old does 15-year-old questions.
One of the strangest benefits of having kids is that it makes it much easier to figure out what advice to give people. You just ask "What would I tell my kids?"
🚀 New #ThisWeekInNET episode! Cloudflare’s Will Allen joins us to talk Pay-Per-Crawl and Content Independence Day (with a Matthew Prince cameo). How can content creators get paid when AI bots crawl their work? Big shift to opt-in. Watch here: youtu.be/Hp-uCchlgic #PayPerCrawl
Sol <3
Today we’re announcing Sol, our newest subsea cable connecting the U.S., Bermuda, the Azores, and Spain. ☀️ It will interconnect with our Nuvem cable, and help meet growing demand for @GoogleCloud and AI services for people across the U.S. and Europe. goo.gle/460zyiz