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A meta Tweet

Check this tweet by Chris Johnson: it’s a tweet with a link whose preview image shows the actual number of retweets and likes for said tweet. A meta tweet.https://t.co/lvaYUszJaE — Chris Johnson (@defaced) January 25, 2022 Cool! In a later tweet, Chris shares how it’s done: How this works!👷‍♀️ A @Cloudflare worker responds to requests …

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How CodePen leverages Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare KV Storage

Interesting to see Chris Coyier and Stephen Shaw lift the hood of CodePen, detailing how they use Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare’s KV Storage. Cloudflare workers are like serverless functions that always run at the edge, making them incredibly fast. Not only that, but the tooling around them is really nice. They can run at particular …

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Cloudflare R2 Storage

Cloudflare just announced their Cloud Storage solution, R2, with a very interesting pricing model (emphasis mine): Traditional object storage charges developers for three things: bandwidth, storage size and storage operations. R2 builds on Cloudflare’s commitment to the Bandwidth Alliance, providing zero-cost egress for stored objects — no matter your request rate. Cloudflare R2 will be …

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Miniflare — Fully-local simulator for Cloudflare Workers

Miniflare is a simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers. Originally started as an open-source project, Miniflare has been adopted by Cloudflare to become part of their ecosystem. Installation per NPM: npm install -g miniflare CLI usage is really simple, and is highly configurable using one of its many flags: $ miniflare worker.js [mf:inf] Worker …

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