JoãoTomé

    Writing

    Technical analysis, data stories, and personal essays from the Cloudflare Blog, Substack, and Medium.

    “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
    Disclosure Day. A Film About Aliens That’s Really About Us
    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
    Euro 2024's impact on Internet traffic: a closer look at finalists Spain and England
    Jul 2024
    French elections: political cyber attacks and Internet traffic shifts
    Jul 2024
    UK election day 2024: traffic trends and attacks on political parties
    Jul 2024
    First round of French election: party attacks and a modest traffic dip
    Jul 2024
    How the first 2024 US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic and security trends
    Jun 2024
    How the UEFA Euro 2024 football games are impacting local Internet traffic
    Jun 2024
    Exploring the 2024 EU Election: Internet traffic trends and cybersecurity insights
    Jun 2024
    almost there: fusion, robot cars, agi, and quantum computers…
    Jun 2024
    Internet insights on 2024 elections in the Netherlands, South Africa, Iceland, India, and Mexico
    Jun 2024
    Dutch political websites hit by cyber attacks as EU voting starts
    Jun 2024
    book viii — 5. this too shall pass.
    May 2024
    Sem surpresa, mas digno de registo
    May 2024
    An Internet traffic analysis during Iran's April 13, 2024, attack on Israel
    Apr 2024
    Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
    Apr 2024
    From .com to .beauty: The evolving threat landscape of unwanted email
    Mar 2024
    Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries
    Mar 2024
    From Google to Generative AI: ranking top Internet services in 2023
    Dec 2023
    Cyber Week: analyzing Internet traffic and e-commerce trends
    Nov 2023
    Do hackers eat turkey? And other Thanksgiving Internet trends
    Nov 2023
    what is locus of control. am I the master of my domain?
    Oct 2023
    rixa. beef. desaguisado existencial.
    Oct 2023
    Internet traffic patterns in Israel and Palestine following the October 2023 attacks
    Oct 2023
    Typo traps: analyzing traffic to exmaple.com (or is it example.com?)
    Sep 2023
    Cloudflare Radar's 2023 overview of new tools and insights
    Aug 2023
    An August reading list about online security and 2023 attacks landscape
    Aug 2023
    Oppenheimer's Deadly Toy. A Movie About Consequences.
    Jul 2023
    Decoding the Zeitgeist: What the Top 20 Wikipedia Articles of 2023 Tell Us
    Jul 2023
    Tell your story. In which medium? Just do it, already.
    Jul 2023
    Every Night
    May 2023
    How the coronation of King Charles III affected Internet traffic
    May 2023
    Effects of the conflict in Sudan on Internet patterns
    May 2023
    London bound.
    Apr 2023
    How Easter, Passover and Ramadan show up in Internet trends
    Apr 2023
    How to stay safe from phishing
    Mar 2023
    "nothing matters"
    Mar 2023
    One year of war in Ukraine: Internet trends, attacks, and resilience
    Feb 2023
    A look at Internet traffic trends during Super Bowl LVII
    Feb 2023
    Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review
    Dec 2022
    An early look at Thanksgiving 2022 Internet trends
    Nov 2022
    How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
    Nov 2022
    How to enable Private Access Tokens in iOS 16 and stop seeing CAPTCHAs
    Sep 2022
    Deep dives & how the Internet works
    Aug 2022
    2022 attacks! An August reading list to go “Shields Up”
    Aug 2022
    How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet
    Jul 2022
    Cloudflare's view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada
    Jul 2022
    How Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee had an impact on the Internet
    Jun 2022
    Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
    May 2022
    How Ramadan shows up in Internet trends
    May 2022
    Watching Eurovision 2022 on Cloudflare Radar
    May 2022
    Tracking shifts in Internet connectivity in Kherson, Ukraine
    May 2022
    The deluge of digital attacks against journalists
    May 2022
    Two voting days, a debate and a polling rule in France impacts the Internet
    Apr 2022
    US Tax Day 2022. How leaving it to the last day impacts tax sites
    Apr 2022
    The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
    Apr 2022
    How the Oscars impacted the Internet (at least in the US)
    Mar 2022
    Verdade, mentira ou assim-assim? Como identificar desinformação
    Mar 2022
    Internet is back in Tonga after 38 days of outage
    Feb 2022
    Who won Super Bowl LVI? A look at Internet traffic during the big game
    Feb 2022
    Burkina Faso experiencing second major Internet disruption this year
    Jan 2022
    Internet outage in Yemen amid airstrikes
    Jan 2022
    Tonga's likely lengthy Internet outage
    Jan 2022
    a minha saga pelo mundo do cinema
    Jan 2022
    Internet shut down in Kazakhstan amid unrest
    Jan 2022
    How The Gambia lost access to the Internet for more than 8 hours
    Jan 2022
    reportar, esmiuçar, criar memória
    Jan 2022
    waiting, waiting in hopeless (New Year) nights
    Jan 2022
    words
    Dec 2021
    Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
    Dec 2021
    In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond
    Dec 2021
    Thanksgiving's biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
    Nov 2021
    How the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving
    Nov 2021
    Heard in the halls of Web Summit 2021
    Nov 2021
    Burkina Faso Internet shutdown
    Nov 2021
    Sudan was cut off from the Internet for 25 days
    Nov 2021
    When students go back to school mobile usage goes down
    Nov 2021
    Sudan: seven days without Internet access (and counting)
    Nov 2021
    Sudan woke up without Internet
    Oct 2021
    Where is mobile traffic the most and least popular?
    Oct 2021
    Increased interest in Spanish media after the La Palma volcanic eruption
    Sep 2021
    Old facts
    Oct 2016
    Adeus ao velho capitão Mário Wilson
    Oct 2016

    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.