Hunter Bertoson

if ORMs are wrong why do they feel so right

@jamesqquick Makes sense. I’ve been wanting to work on a Shopify app that uses their MCP to get info about a store. Basically an AI chatbot that can answer everything

@BertosonHunter Basically for an MCP to be worthwhile (specifically with search) it has to have semantic search. That feels like the real power comes when you can ask for data for example without having to use the exact name of the product.

I feel like semantic search is one of the most important parts of MCP that doesn't get talked about very often...

Cloudflare Workflows is what Step Functions should have been. No JSON state machine. No ASL syntax. No $0.025 per state transition. Just async TypeScript with step.do() and step.sleep(). Retries, persistence, and durability handled for you. If you’re still hand-rolling SQS + Lambda + DynamoDB for multi-step jobs, look at this instead.

Things I reach for first when building on Cloudflare Workers in 2026: • Hono for routing • D1 for anything that fits in SQLite • R2 for files (S3-compatible, zero egress) • KV for config and feature flags • Durable Objects when I need real state • Workflows for multi-step orchestration with retries • Workers AI for cheap inference • Queues for anything that shouldn't block a request Replaced an entire AWS stack with this for a client last month. Bill dropped 80%.

@majirshop @luongnv89 @trq212 @bcherny Well thats for the feedback. You have to purchase it for $9.99. apps.apple.com/us/app/custats…

@majirshop @luongnv89 @trq212 @bcherny github.com/luongnv89/cust…

Claude Code did improve a lots in term of usage limit, > got 5 terminals running in parallel in the last 3h, all running at max speed (max thinking as well). > and still cannot finish all weekly usage in time (it was 80% when I started) kudo to the team @trq212, @bcherny

@jamesqquick Glad you are good! Love the content.

After an hour of fear and high anxiety, I found out I’m safe! I’m also heartbroken for my 1,100 coworkers that are gone. If you’re hiring, comment below👇 I’d love to help find amazing opportunities for them!

@jamesqquick Were you in the group that got laid off?

One of the scariest emails of my life...

@callie7ann @sonicdrivein The fact it gives you 3 options and you can only pick 1 for the whole year is ridiculous.

Well. I see @sonicdrivein got rid of half price drinks in the app. Yall are digging your grave quickly.

@InsiderPresider @samgoodwin89 @DrizzleORM Effect is complicated. But once you learn it and understand it. It’s absolutely amazing

@samgoodwin89 @DrizzleORM too complicated, can u explain like im 5

Adding support for @DrizzleORM Effect v4 into Alchemy:

@jamesqquick Workflows are the best. I built my e-commerce client a whole shipping platform (ship station clone). And it’s built on top of Cloudflare workflows.

Generate expense from receipt workflow for Quickspense, a custom expense tracker. - image upload - ocr to parse data - AI to generate structure data - save to db One Cloudflare Workflow with 4 durable steps. Here's how I built it.

I’m officially an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner!

@jamesqquick Yeah. I’ve done this before. Then I apologized. I can’t have the AI coming after me when it comes sentient.

I yelled at LLM today and i feel bad...

@samgoodwin89 Any chance V2 will have Azure? I have to orchestrate a lot of resources on Azure for work and would love to use Alchemy for it

You will be hypnotized into using alchemy v2

Woohoo! What should I build to test it out?

In case you ever wondered what Corporate America is like....

@jamesqquick @opencode Yes it should be!

I just tried to give a 👍 emoji to an AI message in @opencode. I'm wayyyyy too comfortable with these agents 😅 Should emoji reactions to AI chat messages be a thing!👀

Daughter’s school did an art auction. Got into a bidding war with a parent over the piece we wanted. Started at $85. I won it at $260

I rebuilt the same Cloudflare Workers stack 5x for clients So I packaged it cf-hono-starter — Hono + Better-Auth + D1 + R2 + Alpine.js no bundler, no Vite, deploys in one command $59 👇 buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_IqZT1…