Zaid Farooqui

After 7 years, I’m going from working at Cloudflare to building on Cloudflare! Tomm is my last day I’ll miss working with so many insanely driven ppl who made each day fun—none more than @rrnn & @KankaniAbhishek. Thanks @dok2001 for the life-changing DM that started it all 🧡🚀

this kinda engagement porn will ruin gpt

Surprising thing isn’t that Claude is having an outage it’s that they didn’t run a prompt for desktop app to ping google.com to know the problem isn’t the user’s Internet connection 🫠

Claude code experts whats the secret to getting Claude Code to share its thinking more instead of this claude comedy🤡? So often I’ve no idea why its taking so long and seeing the thinking could help me improve my prompting

salesforce needs to change its ticker

Even the best developer tools mostly still don't let you sign up for an account via API. This is a big miss in the claude code age because it means that claude can't sign up on its own. Putting all your account management functions in your API should be tablestakes now.

surprised that cursor’s own model is so meh at ios and swift

@hellosvapnil Everyone will be looking at SF much more closely as these data center buildouts come to their communities

@zaid Unfortunately, I think that people outside of SF do not really think about SF that much. The truth is that without building housing people who can’t afford to settle down in SF will just choose to leave and build their life somewhere else. It’s a massive shame really

Anthropic and OpenAI are underestimating how much everything wrong with SF is going to get attributed to AI by the world For decades SF has sold itself as the future. It will soon be too late to convince ppl outside of SF that every fucked up thing abt SF wasn’t caused by AI

@johnrushx @rauchg Have you tried it w Cursor? Might just work. This is exactly how I use Cursor with Cloudflare. Didn’t need to configure MCP…just gave it access to wrangler. It builds, deploys, debugs, configures domains etc — basically anything possible w api or cli it just does it

@rauchg expand your MCP so that ClaudeCode can do it all for me. I dont really ever wanna enter Vercel dashboard or any other dashboard. I just wanna get things done, I ask claude code "build me this...." and it'll build it and deploy to Vercel, configure it (functions, storage, etc)

@asmartbear Coulda stopped at perplexity imo

On Sunday I asked Perplexity whether the UPS store is open right now and it not only said yes but gave me the exact hours of operation and repeated the current time and date to prove that it knew that indeed it was open. It turns out it's always closed on Sunday. But please tell me more about how AI is ready to invent new physics.

@RhysSullivan I just give cursor my Cloudflare api token and it does everything from building to deploying to configuring domains. Never had to touch MCPs Cursor is my new Cloudflare CLI and Dash

I'm concerned we're entering a local maxima with CLIs, they're the wrong interface for agents The right interface is regular REST APIs with CIMD (same spec that MCP uses to allow for dynamic client registration) Your agent then writes code to interact with the API (like Cloudflare codemode) Think about how this works for humans today for the following action: "I want to set a DNS record on my domain" -> You Google "Vercel set DNS records" -> Docs page tells you what buttons to press -> You press buttons on a website, those call an API Now for agents, they search Google: -> "Set DNS record on Vercel Domain" -> they land on the same docs page, except it outlines what api endpoints are used as well -> the agent then calls those api endpoints for you, credentials are dynamically inserted where the agent can run them -> (optional) set auto approval policies / require approval of all non GET options by default You don't need separate interfaces for agents, nor do you really need separate skills for them CLIs have terrible discoverability, no input / output typing, they're harder to make profiles for for allowed / disallowed tools They work as a stop gap solution, but companies should be focusing on making good docs and APIs, not CLIs I've been prototyping this over at executor.sh (open source github.com/RhysSullivan/e…) if you want to play with what this world would look like - still early on it so appreciate feedback - open source and can run completely on your machine

@fortelabs Make a Cloudflare account Buy a domain on Cloudflare Download cursor Get a Cloudflare api token Tell cursor “This is my Cloudflare key. Make me a one page site, deploy it on Cloudflare and hook it to my domain blah.com using my token”

What's the best way to vibe-code a website right now for someone completely non-technical? I want a simple site with a few pages, with a modern, clean, but polished UI and nice interactive effects Should I just use Claude Code for this, or is it worth using a more specialized tool like Bolt or Lovable?

Recently I built a low-latency system for controlling RC cars over internet, from a web browser. Effectively turning it into FPV unmanned ground vehicle with Raspberry PI, camera module, ESP32 and Cloudflare Realtime service. Doing both video and controls over 4G and WebRTC gives pretty decent 50-200ms lag which is enough to drive a car at moderate speed from anywhere in the world.

@BarisGirismen @batubozkan @Ahmeteneskoksal Cloudflare Stream has new domains that should still work. You can find it in your dashboard

YA AMP YI NIYE ENGELLEDIK KIM BU KARARI VEREN

Congratulations to @Cloudflare on the launch of vinext! From @Cloudflare: "We've been working with National Design Studio...they're already running vinext in production, with meaningful improvements"

@operationdanish I think you have confused gentle parenting w coddling The belief that being gentle and having boundaries are mutually exclusive is the root cause for a lot of trauma and bad outcomes

We now have evidence that gentle parenting doesn’t work. Here’s an uncomfortable truth about parenting no one wants to say out loud: The data is not kind to gentle parenting. According to teenagers, strict curfews. strict bedtimes, screen limits, device drop off times, dedicated homework blocks, and sleepover restrictions IMPROVE higher relationship quality. And yes, parenting difficulty goes up. Of course it does. Leadership is harder than appeasement. For the past decade we have been sold a watered down, Instagram friendly version of “gentle parenting” that often collapses into boundary avoidance, endless negotiation and emotional processing without enforcement. Parents terrified of saying no because they do not want to rupture connection. But connection without authority is not connection. It is dependency. When parents impose structure, the relationship improves. Teenagers report better parent child relationship quality in homes with curfews and rules. Younger kids report better relationships in homes with screen limits and bedtimes. Even device drop off times correlate positively. Why? Because structure is not cruelty. Structure is love made visible. A bedtime says: your brain matters more than your entertainment. A screen limit says: your dopamine system is not fully developed and I will guard it until it is. A curfew says: your safety matters more than your social standing. That is not authoritarianism. That is caring. Boundaries create friction. Friction creates growth. The parent absorbs the short term discomfort so the child does not pay the long term cost. Children do not experience well calibrated limits as rejection. They experience them as stability. The human brain craves predictability. Predictability reduces anxiety. Reduced anxiety strengthens attachment. That is why relationship quality goes up. Notice something else in the data. The strongest effects are around time structure. Bedtime. Homework. Devices. Outside play. These are environmental constraints. They scaffold executive function. The winning formula is not tyranny. It is high warmth plus high structure. The modern failure mode is high warmth plus low structure. That is just abdication of responsibility wrapped in empathy. Children need leadership, not negotiation. They need adults who can tolerate their anger. They need boundaries that do not move every time emotions spike. They need someone whose prefrontal cortex is fully myelinated. The harder path produces the stronger bond. Because when a child feels that someone is strong enough to hold the line, they relax. And relaxed nervous systems build durable relationships.

@danielgothits you clearly haven’t been to sf

New York has the craziest aura loss of any city on earth over the last 20 years. It’s literally been a third world zoo ever since covid

@hellosvapnil 😆

@zaid 50% chance they are PMs at FAANG

never change sf

🇹🇷 In Turkey, during an amateur league match in Istanbul, a goalkeeper accidentally hit a seagull with the ball. A player from one of the teams managed to perform CPR on the bird and saved its life.

This piece shows a profound lack of understanding of how marketplaces work and why they are defensible. “A competent developer could deploy a functional competitor in weeks, and dozens did, enticing drivers away from DoorDash and Uber Eats by passing 90-95% of the delivery fee through to the driver.” Anyone could have done that at any time in the last ten years. Why was no one able to? Because the hard part has nothing to do with building the app or attracting the drivers. The hard part is building a liquid marketplace with all of the best supply and a massive series of optimizations and investments to drive down prices and delivery times and drive up reliability and quality. DoorDash and Eats have built this when no one else could, and they will not allow agents to transact on their apps, nor will they have a legal requirement to allow it. But the real story isn’t as sensational, so it doesn’t get the engagement.