JoãoTomé

    Writing

    Technical analysis, data stories, and personal essays from the Cloudflare Blog, Substack, Medium. The archive also includes selected earlier journalism from Portuguese newspapers, magazines, and television.

    Where Did the Stop Button Go? Raising a 10-Year-Old in 2026
    Aug 2026
    “Playback”: um filme sem a chama (e alegria) de Carlos Paião
    Aug 2026
    Five Years Telling Stories About the Internet Through Data
    Aug 2026
    The Odyssey: the journey is the message
    Jul 2026
    Back to the Gulbenkian Art Library, 26 Years Later
    Jul 2026
    How I set up my own email domain without paying for Google Workspace
    Jun 2026
    A Marinharia dos Descobrimentos: technology, method, and a hunger to know
    Jun 2026
    A week that said a lot about where AI is going (and who controls it)
    Jun 2026
    Anyone can build it now. Then what?
    Jun 2026
    (PT) Disclosure Day — No Fundo, É Sobre Nós
    Jun 2026
    ChatGPT's rivals, Kwai's quiet rise: the top Internet services of 2025
    Dec 2025
    The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals
    Aug 2025
    How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks
    Aug 2025
    From Googlebot to GPTBot: who's crawling your site in 2025
    Jul 2025
    Chaos in Cloudflare's Lisbon office: securing the Internet with wave motion
    Mar 2025
    Global expansion in Generative AI: a year of growth, newcomers, and attacks
    Mar 2025
    Offline celebrations: how Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year festivities shape online behavior
    Feb 2025
    The fall and rise of TikTok (traffic)
    Jan 2025
    TikTok ban takes hold: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives
    Jan 2025
    When the world logs off: Christmas, New Year's, and the Internet's holiday rhythm
    Dec 2024
    Global elections in 2024: Internet traffic and cyber threat trends
    Dec 2024
    From ChatGPT to Temu: ranking top Internet services in 2024
    Dec 2024
    From deals to DDoS: exploring Cyber Week 2024 Internet trends
    Dec 2024
    Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election
    Nov 2024
    How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic
    Sep 2024
    Exploring Internet and security trends during the 2024 U.S. Democratic National Convention
    Aug 2024
    Paris 2024 Olympics recap: Internet trends, cyber threats, and popular moments
    Aug 2024
    How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics has impacted Internet traffic
    Jul 2024
    Countdown to Paris 2024 Olympics: France leads in web interest
    Jul 2024
    Exploring Internet traffic during the 2024 U.S. Republican National Convention
    Jul 2024
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    From the Cloudflare Blog

    Most popular

    A selected list of popular Cloudflare Blog writing, including Offline Celebrations, Total Eclipse of the Internet and Typo Traps.

    Offline celebrations: how Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year festivities shape online behavior
    Feb 2025
    Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
    Apr 2024
    Typo traps: analyzing traffic to exmaple.com (or is it example.com?)
    Sep 2023
    The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals
    Aug 2025
    From Googlebot to GPTBot: who's crawling your site in 2025
    Jul 2025
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    Journalism

    Earlier journalism work — features, reviews, interviews, and reporting — was published across Portuguese media: on television at SIC (TV shows Volante and TV Turbo), and in print and digital outlets including Público, Destak, Expresso, Observador, Dinheiro Vivo, Jornal de Negócios, and magazines such as Notícias Magazine, DN Insider, and Must, among others.