Chris Taylor
2024-07-30
Testing your Ansible playbooks locally can save you time and effort. Here are some tips to help you get started.
· 10 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-07-04
A contractor that we hired on Upwork is now blackmailing us. Here's how we got into this situation and how we're dealing with it.
· 5 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-06-26
Ts-node used to be the go to for running TypeScript in Node.js. However, its time to consider alternatives.
· 4 min read
George Oastler
2024-06-18
How to configure GitHub Actions to use sane caching that shares caches between branches and evicts old caches. A deep dive into the gotchas and solutions for GitHub Actions caching.
· 10 min read
George Oastler
2024-04-22
How to brand TypeScript types for norminal typing, providing an automated and easy-to-use way of making a type nominal.
· 10 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-04-18
When we make changes to a package that our vite project depends on, Vite doesn't automatically rebuild the local package dependency as it's outside the module graph. This article explains how to get Vite to rebuild local dependencies in an NPM workspace.
· 6 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-04-13
Find out what the best value CAPTCHA is in 2024 and how it compares to other popular CAPTCHA solutions.
· 4 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-04-09
A comparison of the costs of using Prosopo Procaptcha and Google reCAPTCHA for website security. Google reCAPTCHA's price hike has caused quite a stir in the digital community. In this article, we compare cost of using Google reCAPTCHA with Prosopo Procaptcha, a private, community-powered CAPTCHA service.
· 4 min read
George Oastler
2024-04-08
Work around for handling `.node` files in vite using a custom plugin. `.node` files are the nodejs way of providing platform specific code. This sounds great, until Vite enters the mix. Vite has no ability to handle native binaries whilst bundling, interpreting `.node` files as raw js. In this article we discuss how to handle `.node` files in Vite.
· 10 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-04-02
Invisible Captcha is a powerful tool for protecting your website from spam and abuse without disrupting the user experience. Learn how it works and why it's a valuable addition to your security arsenal.
· 2 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-03-20
Prosopo is hiring a full stack engineer with a penchant for DevOps to join our small team and help us design the future of bot protection.
· 2 min read
Hugh Parry
2024-03-18
Scrutiny by the French data protection authority, CNIL, reveals the problematic infrastructure that allows for reCAPTCHA's operations
· 7 min read
Hugh Parry
2024-03-15
The choice of traffic lights, cars, and urban scenery for reCAPTCHA challenges is not arbitrary. In this article, we discss the reasons why millions of people around the world have been asked to click on pictures of traffic lights and bikes for most of the last decade!
· 5 min read
George Oastler
2024-03-14
Unveil the secrets behind CAPTCHA, the digital gatekeeper standing between you and cyber chaos, in our captivating exploration of cybersecurity's unsung hero!
· 2 min read
George Oastler
2024-03-13
Explore how TypeScript mapped types can create some perplexing paradoxes where Cat === Dog! An overview of how to brand identical types so that the TypeScript compiler can tell them apart from each other.
· 10 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-02-22
Find out why reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and Cloudflare Turnstile may be secretly monetising your website data, and how Prosopo's Procaptcha is solving this problem.
· 5 min read
Hugh Parry
2024-02-20
In 2024, the digital landscape continues to evolve, bringing new challenges in website security and user verification. CAPTCHA solutions have become a crucial line of defense against automated threats, effectively distinguishing between human users and bots.
· 5 min read
Hugh Parry
2024-02-18
Google's announcement of reducing the free tier quota from 1 million requests per month to just 10,000 has come as a shock to many
· 7 min read
Chris Taylor
2024-02-12
Get 12 months of our advanced subscription for free! We're giving away 1000 subscriptions to celebrate our beta release.
· 2 min read
George Oastler
2024-02-01
We are thrilled to announce that Prosopo has secured a grant from the Web3 Foundation, propelling our mission to create a decentralized human verification marketplace. Developed in collaboration with our partner, Gimly, the Prosopo protocol aims to fortify decentralized applications (DApps) against bot attacks while maintaining a high level of decentralization. Such innovations are vital in transitioning blockchain applications from niche utilities to integral components of daily life.
· 2 min read
Chris Taylor
2023-09-20
How to switch from Google's reCAPTCHA to Prosopo Procaptcha and protect your website or app from bots for free.
· 3 min read
Hugh Parry
2023-09-20
Why Prosopo's decentralised, privacy-focused, and free solution offers a more user-friendly and secure alternative for protecting your web forms against bots, when compared to the industry standard reCAPTCHA
· 2 min read
Chris Taylor
2022-07-27
The Prosopo team had the privilege of participating in the third edition of Polkadot Decoded in Berlin, enjoying talks by Gavin Wood on Governance v2, and by Encointer on providing Universal Basic Income through decentralised local currencies amongst others. The event highlighted the need for bot protection for web 3.
· 2 min read
Chris Taylor
2022-02-07
We are thrilled to announce that Prosopo has secured a grant from the Web3 Foundation, propelling our mission to create a decentralized human verification marketplace. Developed in collaboration with our partner, Gimly, the Prosopo protocol aims to fortify decentralized applications (DApps) against bot attacks while maintaining a high level of decentralization. Such innovations are vital in transitioning blockchain applications from niche utilities to integral components of daily life.
· 5 min read