@WrenArcher When is yours? I know we had this conversation before, since mine is on Saturday. #birthdayweek

I was messaging a friend recently and she shared a pic from "days of yore." It unlocked a memory I had put wayyyy back in the vault.

When I was in high school, a freshman if I remember right (grade 9), I grew my hair kinda long. By some freak of nature, I was able to avoid a haircut all summer prior and well into the fall of that school year, despite a number of criticisms from adults. At the time, my rock heroes were the members of Canadian rock n roll hall of famers, Rush. Huge admiration for Neil Peart and as such I cut my own hair to mimic the rat tail he sported in the 80s.

It was against school policy for boys to have long hair (if you're new here, I'm a trans girl) so I kept the back tucked under my shirts. But because of my weird hairstyle at the time, it looked as though the bottom of my hair was at my collar. Sorta. Maybe. Kinda.
Probably deluded myself. Bottom line is I got away with it for a while.

But for some reason, and this part escapes me, my momma decided to put a perm in my hair, which is the memory that said friend's picture unlocked. I don't recall asking for it but my momma put a perm...
on just...
the top...
of my head.

*smiles and nods*
Yessssss. 🤣

I don't have any pictures of that. In fact, I don't have any pictures from my youth. When my momma died, my estranged sister of 16yrs snatched all my momma's photos.

But I'm telling you, I was a sight to behold. 🤭

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Birthday Week 2025 celebrated innovation at scale: Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, open-source partnerships, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026. https://blog.cloudflare.com/birthday-week-2025-wrap-up/ #BirthdayWeek
15 years of helping build a better Internet: A look back at Birthday Week 2025

Cloudflare just turned 15! Birthday Week 2025 celebrated innovation at scale: Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, open-source partnerships, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026.

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15 years ago, Cloudflare was born!
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Three new Radar features launched today for @cloudflare #BirthdayWeek!

First: regional traffic data is now available. You can now get a more localized perspective on the impact of events and disruptions on Internet traffic. Learn more at https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-regional-internet-traffic-and-certificate-transparency-insights-on-radar/

Cloudflare will automatically create an AI-optimized search index for your domain, and expose ready-to-use standard APIs and tools including an MCP server, LLMs.txt, and a search API. https://blog.cloudflare.com/an-ai-index-for-all-our-customers/ #BirthdayWeek
An AI Index for all our customers

Cloudflare will soon automatically create an AI-optimized search index for your domain, and expose a set of ready-to-use standard APIs and tools including an MCP server, LLMs.txt, and a search API. For AI builders, Cloudflare will offer a new way to discover and retrieve web content.

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Here's why we’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX. https://blog.cloudflare.com/20-percent-internet-upgrade/ #BirthdayWeek
Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust

We’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX. It’s not only substantially faster for all our customers, it’s also more secure, and lets us ship new products quicker than ever before.

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Over the year we have greatly expanded Node.js compatibility. There are hundreds of new Node.js APIs now available that make it easier to run existing Node.js code on our platform. https://blog.cloudflare.com/nodejs-workers-2025/ #BirthdayWeek
A year of improving Node.js compatibility in Cloudflare Workers

Over the year we have greatly expanded Node.js compatibility. There are hundreds of new Node.js APIs now available that make it easier to run existing Node.js code on our platform. This has been a major initiative for us, and we are excited to share the progress we've made.

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Over the next year Cloudflare will make nearly every feature we offer available to any customer who wants to buy and use it. https://blog.cloudflare.com/enterprise-grade-features-for-all/ #BirthdayWeek
Every Cloudflare feature, available to everyone

Cloudflare is making every feature available to any customer.

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To address the concerns our customers have today about how their content is being used by crawlers and data scrapers, we are launching the Content Signals Policy. https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-signals-policy/ #BirthdayWeek
Giving users choice with Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy

Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy gives creators a new tool to control use of their content.

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