A next-generation Certificate Transparency log built on Cloudflare Workers
Learn about recent developments in Certificate Transparency (CT), and how we built a next-generation CT log on top of Cloudflare's Developer Platform.
Workers AI gets a speed boost, batch workload support, more LoRAs, new models, and a refreshed dashboard
We just made Workers AI inference faster with speculative decoding & prefix caching. Use our new batch inference for handling large request volumes seamlessly. Build tailored AI apps with more LoRA options. Lastly, new models and a refreshed dashboard round out this Developer Week update for Workers AI.
Startup Program update: empowering every stage of the startup journey
Cloudflare’s Startup Program offers up to $250,000 in credits for companies building on our Developer Platform across 4 tiers: $5,000, $25,000, $100,000, and $250,000.
How we simplified NCMEC reporting with Cloudflare Workflows
We transitioned to Cloudflare Workflows to manage complex, multi-step processes more efficiently. This shift replaced our queues-based architecture in our National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reporting system with a structured, retryable workflow that’s easier to debug and maintain.
Simple, scalable, and global: Containers are coming to Cloudflare Workers in June 2025
Cloudflare Containers are coming this June. Run new types of workloads on our network with an experience that is simple, scalable, global and deeply integrated with Workers.
CSS-Tricks Chronicles XLIII
This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content.
Introducing sub-issues: Enhancing issue management on GitHub
Explore the iterative development journey of GitHub’s sub-issues feature. Learn how we leveraged sub-issues to build and refine sub-issues, breaking down larger tasks into smaller, manageable ones.
What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it?
Everyone’s talking about MCP these days when it comes to large language models (LLMs)—here’s what you need to know.
Making Super Slurper 5x faster with Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues
We re-architected Super Slurper from the ground up using our Developer Platform — leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues — and improved transfer speeds by up to 5x.
Just landed: streaming ingestion on Cloudflare with Arroyo and Pipelines
We’ve just shipped our new streaming ingestion service, Pipelines — and we’ve acquired Arroyo, enabling us to bring new SQL-based, stateful transformations to Pipelines and R2.
R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees
R2 Data Catalog is now in public beta: a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket.
Sequential consistency without borders: How D1 implements global read replication
D1, Cloudflare’s managed SQL database, announces read replication beta. In this post, we do a technical deep dive of the read replication implementation and how your queries can remain consistent across all regions.
Tailwind's @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds
Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind's @apply feature with one of Tailwind's single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn't sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind's @apply feature is better than described.
Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts
If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that's a great place to wrap
Finding a forever home for FigPals
A tribute to our beloved FigPals—and a surprise to keep them close forever.
How we’re making security easier for the average developer
Security should be native to your workflow, not a painful separate process.
The next chapter: EpicAI.pro
What I'm working on with AI education and why I think it's the future.
Gild Just One Lily — Smashing Magazine
“Gilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communicate a level of care and attention that builds trust. But first? You need a lily. Nail the fundamentals. Then, gild it carefully.
Testing the conversion impact of 50+ global payment methods
We have data that shows when at least one additional relevant payment method beyond cards is dynamically surfaced, businesses on average see a meaningful increase in conversion and revenue.
Make your apps truly interactive with Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit
Announcing Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit, a complete toolkit for shipping real-time audio and video apps in days with SDKs for Kotlin, React Native, Swift, JavaScript, and Flutter.
Introducing Cloudflare Secrets Store (Beta): secure your secrets, simplify your workflow
Securely store, manage and deploy account level secrets to Cloudflare Workers through Cloudflare Secrets Store, available in beta – with role-based access control, audit logging and Wrangler support.
Introducing Workers Observability: logs, metrics, and queries – all in one place
We’ve improved Observability for Workers by announcing the General Availability of Workers Logs and the introduction of the Query Builder to help you investigate log events across all of your Workers.
CSS Carousels
Chrome has prototyped these features and released them in Chrome 135. Adam Argyle has a wonderful explainer over at the Chrome Developer blog. Kevin Powell has an equally wonderful video where he follows the explainer. This post is me taking notes from them.
That health is mental
Disclaimer : Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide. It’s been a while since I wrote a mental health piece — but I think it’s important to occasionally stop, take a breather, and think about how we feel. So. deep breath I’m okay, I think? Just a little restless. A bit of personal context For those keeping score, I went through major life events in 2023 — a divorce, a move, and the news that
