san francisco is voting to indefinitely ban all new weed shops in the city because current shop owners have complained there's too much competition. so, a literal drug cartel lmao
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A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer, and former ski instructor. Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).
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40 years ago #Today, the movie WarGames was released. A fascinating snapshot of Western popular culture in the 1980s, celebrating the home computing pioneering years
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How can you visualize the entire observable universe in a relatively small rectangular area? Using the logarithmic scale, as Pablo Carlos Budassi did, locating the most notable astronomical objects as far away as the edge of time
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A multi-hour #Internet disruption was observed in #Iraq between 04:00-08:00 local time. The shutdown was to prevent cheating on academic exams.
data shows that two ASNs were the most impacted, resulting in a 74% drop in traffic in the country.
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/iq?dat
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. is building out an amazing engineering team in Lisbon that shipped a lot of what was announced during developer week. The biggest problem is finding great product managers in Lisbon. If you know anyone please DM or
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Lisbon is great. (I’m sure Porto is too, for lack of ambiguity, and look forward to visiting likely later this year. And, to be clear, when I say nice things about Lisbon I’m really saying nice things about all of Portugal. Cool?) Looking forward to next trip to visit team here.
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Cloudflare tshirt and other fun swag shipped anywhere in the world to whoever first identifies me an John Graham-Cumming (our CTO) in the photo. (Cloudflare employees not eligible. 🤫)
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"So the big lesson from Nvidia is not that U.S. industrial policy should support Nvidia — it’s that U.S. industrial policy should support the scaling up of startups in the chip industry as a whole."
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Lisbon is great. (I’m sure Porto is too, for lack of ambiguity, and look forward to visiting likely later this year. And, to be clear, when I say nice things about Lisbon I’m really saying nice things about all of Portugal. Cool?) Looking forward to next trip to visit team here.
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The second cohort for the Workers Launchpad Program is here!
We can't wait to work with and showcase these incredible companies building on Cloudflare's Developer Platform!
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Heat, Lakers’ playoff runs prove how meaningless NBA regular season has become
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It's time once again for #ThisWeekInNet. is joined by Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming, and they are revisiting the announcements from #DeveloperWeek, with a special focus on how Cloudflare will be powering, and powered by, AI. Check it out.
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Congratulations to my friends at for the release of C3, a tool that makes it seamless and efficient to deploy web applications 👏
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Today we are launching a ton of exciting things for web developers!
I'm thrilled to be able to share all the details in the blog below.
As a big part of this launch we built a new CLI we call C3 (short for create-cloudflare cli).
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cloudflare d1 updates are 🔥🔥🔥
🔸 3700% (!!) faster than before (on northwinds demo)
🔸 easy querying from the dashboard
🔸 JSON functions support
🔸 location hints (these made our demos for frameworks like remix so much faster) and… replication coming soon
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We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time. Read more: cfl.re/41PUrau #DeveloperWeek
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We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time. Read more: cfl.re/41PUrau #DeveloperWeek
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More Node.js APIs are supported in Cloudflare Workers every month — today we're announcing support for stream, path, and string decoder. cfl.re/45cONC7 #DeveloperWeek
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Queues is faster than ever before! Now queues will automatically scale up your consumers, clearing out backlogs in a flash. Explicit Acknowledgement allows developers to acknowledge or retry individual messages in a batch. cfl.re/45dV948 #DeveloperWeek
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So I've spent the last ~three months writing a new distributed storage engine based on SQLite and it has been FUN!
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Not all bad news in court rulings that could destroy the Internet. The Supreme Court just issued a unanimous, sensible decision on the liability of services for the content they carry.
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proud to have workers for platforms powering platforms like and .
"Our integration with Workers for Platforms has been instrumental to our success in providing fast, globally-available, and secure storefronts for our merchants."
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It's almost exactly one year ago to the date since we launched Workers for Platforms, our Workers offering for SaaS businesses.
And now that Workers for Platforms includes new features, let’s take a look back at why we built it! bit.ly/431MQqc
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Lots of newer Cloudflare features (like Access or Zaraz) are built on Workers, but we're also gradually transitioning all of the old traditional CDN features to be built on Workers too, with benefits for performance and our own development velocity.
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Cloudflare was originally built as native services, but we’re building more and more of it on Cloudflare itself. This post describes how and why we’re doing this. cfl.re/3ME1r5W #DeveloperWeek
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We are incredibly stoked that our friends at LangChain have announced LangChainJS Support for Cloudflare Workers! In this post we'll show you how to build a sample application. cfl.re/3obaHVA #DeveloperWeek
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Earn best practices for securing generative AI applications based on Cloudflare's experience protecting some of the largest AI applications in the world. cfl.re/3MjN2KL #DeveloperWeek
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Introducing Secrets Store by Cloudflare - the ultimate solution for managing your application secrets securely. Safeguard sensitive information, track access, and maintain ease of use. cfl.re/3Onhma2 #DeveloperWeek
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Know that crazy German court ruling where 9.9.9.9 has to block a site globally because it was found illegal locally and users could use VPNs to access it? Same logic would mean a Montana court can now find that TikTok must now be banned globally. #TeletubbyInternet
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Montana governor signs TikTok ban into law — our story here on this big moment in a very intense time for the app and its future in the United States nytimes.com/2023/05/17/bus
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Oops. Never mind. Even the Teletubbies offended some local standards somewhere: slate.com/technology/201 So guess we’ll just have… 3/3
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Play this out in every court around the world and what you get is an Internet that contain only what falls below the lowest common denominator of global regional standards. Devoid of news, interest, or opinion. Call it the #TeletubbyInternet. Vapid and inoffensive. 2/3
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This is an extremely bad local court decision. It inherently violates basic principles of the Rule of Law and the sovereignty of jurisdictions beyond the court’s reach. How dare a local court in Germany dictate what non-German citizens cannot see? 1/3
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We’re proud to announce the release of Wrangler v3 – the first version of Wrangler with local-by-default development, powered by Miniflare v3 and the open-source Workers workerd runtime. cfl.re/430uiXk #DeveloperWeek
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We’re proud to announce an improved dashboard editor experience that allows users to edit multimodule Workers, use real edge previews, and debug their Workers more easily - all powered by Workers and VSCode for the Web. cfl.re/3Mzssar #DeveloperWeek
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A new beta build system is now available for Cloudflare Pages. We've updated our default languages and tools, and made some exciting underlying architecture changes. You can enable it in your project settings in the dashboard today. cfl.re/3ocKG8n #DeveloperWeek
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Angular, Astro, Next, Nuxt, Qwik, Remix, Solid, Svelte, Vue on Cloudflare? Deployed globally, even “beyond the edge”, with a single command? And all for $0 or a fraction of the usual cost? Try: npm create cloudflare. cfl.re/3BBDvd3 #DeveloperWeek
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Today we’re excited to announce that over the next year we will be working to bring together the best traits and attributes you know and love from each product into one powerful platform! cfl.re/3WddmdR #DeveloperWeek
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AI is going to be part of business going forward, so businesses need guardrails to protect their data, says CEO on #DeveloperWeek
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Cloudflare CEO chats with 's and on the future of AI tools and how Cloudflare can help.
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🚀 Move your S3 data to Cloudflare R2 effortlessly with Super Slurper! It’s fast, reliable, and easy to use. Plus, you can join the private beta for incremental migration. Check it out now! 💻🔁
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Welcome to #DeveloperWeek on Cloudflare TV! In 15 minutes, join the developer team as they give a preview of what’s to come. Watch here →
cloudflare.tv/shows/develope #CloudflareTV
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I'm not meant to have favorites, but the ability to connect to services over TCP from a Worker is one of my favorite new features landing this week.
It's also the foundation for connecting to existing databases, starting with PostgreSQL:
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Today we’re announcing Database Integrations – making it seamless to connect to your database of choice on Workers. cfl.re/3M5kKn7 #DeveloperWeek
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giving developers the tools to build out their dreams is just part of being a platform. the other part is trust.
we have the platform to help you scale from 0 to infinity, and we want you to build on it!
excited to say goodbye to 2.8 👋
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You can now use Super Slurper to quickly, securely, and easily migrate data from S3 to R2. cfl.re/42YppxV #DeveloperWeek
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