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Isolate sharing is a Spectre channel on Workers

Workers Spectre is isolate sharing on the edge. A JWT in neighbor heap leaked at 12 bit/s in production. Keep secrets on env rather than module scope.

Deep DivesCloudflareSecurityServerlessEdge ComputingArchitectureDeveloper Tools1 min read · Aug 21, 2026

Kitesurf is the Dynamic Workers follow-up

Cloudflare Kitesurf is Dynamic Workers for browse. 3-7x less CPU and memory than Chromium. Keep Playwright. Give up looking like a person on the open web.

Strong OpinionsCloudflareAI CodingServerlessEdge ComputingDeveloper Tools1 min read · Aug 14, 2026

Dynamic Workers are the first runtime that matches how agents write code

Dynamic Workers match Code Mode writing, not Linux coding agents. Capability bindings, the globalOutbound footgun, and when microVMs like E2B still win.

Strong OpinionsCloudflareServerlessMCPAI CodingEdge Computing1 min read · Aug 4, 2026

Vercel Edge Functions Are Deprecated and That Was Right

Vercel Edge Functions are deprecated and the call was right. What changed, why round trips now cost more than queries, and what still belongs at the edge.

Strong OpinionsVercelEdge ComputingServerlessNext.jsPerformanceCloudflare1 min read · Jul 28, 2026

Why Astro, Cloudflare Workers, and Claude Code Fast Track Production

Astro Cloudflare Workers stack ships 90% less JavaScript, starts in under 5ms, and runs workerd in dev. The migration gotchas nobody covers, solved.

Strong OpinionsAstroCloudflareClaude CodeJavaScriptWeb DevPerformance1 min read · Jul 27, 2026

Web Scraping in the AI Age: What Actually Changed

Web scraping in the AI age broke twice over: LLMs killed the CSS selector, and AI crawlers exploded while referral traffic collapsed. Here is what changed.

Strong OpinionsWeb DevAI CodingSecurityAutomationPythonCloudflareTrend Commentary1 min read · May 31, 2026

How to Block AI Crawlers From Destroying Your Site

AI crawlers from OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic are hammering sites with millions of requests per month. robots.txt alone does not stop them. Here are the 4 layers that actually work.

Build AlongSecurityDevOpsWeb DevNginxCloudflare1 min read · Apr 11, 2026

Cloudflare Is the Biggest Man-in-the-Middle in History (And You're OK With It)

Cloudflare terminates TLS for roughly 20% of all web traffic. Every proxied HTTPS request is decrypted and re-encrypted on their servers. Here's what that means, why we accept it, and what the alternatives actually look like.

Strong OpinionsSecurityCloudflareEncryptionNetworkingWeb DevTrend Commentary1 min read · Apr 11, 2026