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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 27/09/2026

My partner Jade turned her old work into a music video and it's so good...

Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 18/05/2026

My wife @jadewang.me wrote a collection of poetry that is designed to be read by AI. To be clear, it is NOT written by AI. Jade wrote everything herself. But it contains puzzles that very few humans have enough context to figure out, but most frontier models do.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 24/03/2026

Big launch today: Dynamic Workers are now in Open Beta, all paid Workers users have access. Secure sandboxes that start ~100x faster than a container and use 1/10 the memory, so you can start one up on-demand to handle one AI chat message and then throw it away. blog.cloudflare.com/dynamic-work...

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Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster

We’re introducing Dynamic Workers, which allow you to execute AI-generated code in secure, lightweight isolates. This approach is 100 times faster than traditional containers, enabling millisecond sta...

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 18/02/2026

I don't know why this robot performance -- casually dropped into the CMG Spring Festival Gala -- isn't getting more attention. Stunning advancement in robot technology. Feels like Unitree suddenly passed and then lapped Boston Dynamics in the past year? And lol@Tesla. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUml...

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Martial arts robots dazzle at 2026 Spring Festival Gala #CoolChina #springfestival2026

YouTube video by CGTN

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This dude is intense and correct

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 08/12/2025

Happy 10th Birthday to this Onion headline.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 13/11/2025

I was looking for a sound clip from the 1983 arcade game, Sinistar, and instead I got... whatever this is.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 12/11/2025

Whelp. I'm locked out of X because it insists I re-enroll my security key (which I haven't used in years, I always use the authenticator app), and when I try to do that, it just loops back and prompts me to do it again. Great.

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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 28/10/2025

It launched! Get traces for your app with zero code changes. No libraries, no SDK, no config. Traces show up in your dash or you can export them to your favorite o11y vendor over OTLP blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...

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Announcing Workers automatic tracing -- now in open beta

Cloudflare Workers' support for automatic tracing is now in open beta! Export traces to any OpenTelemetry-compatible provider for deeper application observability -- no code changes required

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 14/10/2025

Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg. Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 26/09/2025

Hey Bluesky, I know how people here just LOVE everything AI, so I wanted to show you what @threepointone.bsky.social and I have been up to. We made an agent that calls MCP not as "tools", but by converting the tools into a TypeScript API, and writing code against that. blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

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Code Mode: the better way to use MCP

It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 23/09/2025

I think adding the .map() thing was worth it just for the engagement on these threads lol.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 22/09/2025

I don't have a problem with making new RPC systems! I can stop any time I want! But I don't want to. So I made a new one for you. It's called Cap'n Web. It's like Cap'n Proto RPC, except focused on working great in browsers and JavaScript/TypeScript servers. blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-java...

An image of a circular fabric patch showing some sort of superhero in a nautical hat? Cap'n Web: Protect & Connect, it says. Looks like AI slop.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 19/09/2025

My smoke detector. In case you can't hear it over the alarm, it's saying: "Too much smoke, alarm cannot be hushed." Four different detectors in my house have had false alarms now. All Kidde-brand. Apparently this is common with Kidde. @bradfitz.com I am feeling your pain (a decade later).

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

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I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 24/07/2025

Ridiculous. The time Google is spending just on comms to deprecate this is likely an order of magnitude more than it would have cost to just keep these links working forever. One could implement this on Workers in 5 lines of code and never touch it again...

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 27/05/2025

Midnight power outages in 2025 are like being haunted: - HVAC fans suddenly go silent - Weird beeps and boops from around the house as charging devices complain they stopped charging - Phone notifications blowing up - Powered shades occasionally go up and down randomly (wtf??) - Distant car alarm

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 18/05/2025

I find that the most effective way to get rid of a headache is to exercise. I also find that people with headaches are not receptive to this advice.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 21/04/2025

Came here to make a "'JD Vance kills the Pope' was not on my bingo card" joke but it turns out literally everyone already made that joke it so I'll see myself out.

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David Renshaw @dwrensha.ws · 05/04/2025

I posted a new video, in which I demonstrate the "Rupert Property" for a bunch of polyhedra: youtu.be/evKFok65t_E

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26 Polyhedra that Fit Through Themselves, and 5 that Might Not

YouTube video by David Renshaw

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 26/03/2025

Hate to say but... I did not like Severance. Great premise! Too much weird shit, nonsense, and inconsistency. I couldn't suspend disbelief. Amused this came from Apple as it seems like it's actually their fantasy office? Annoyed I paid Apple money for the first time in a decade to watch this.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 12/03/2025

I saw the Goodyear blimp outside the window and I took a picture and sent it to @jadewang.me and typed "blomp", which was a typo, except now I've decided that's really a much better word anyway. It's a blomp now. Goodyear blomp in Austin, presumably for SXSW.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 09/03/2025

I've been trying a lot of AI code assistants lately... Claude Code: Holy fucking shit 🤯😱 Cursor, GPT 4.5: I would have found this impressive if I had not tried Claude Code first. Gemini code assist: This... is what I expected an LLM to be, before I tried the others.

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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 25/02/2025

Today we’re excited to share a few announcements on how we’re making it even easier to build AI agents on Cloudflare, including a new agents-sdk (a new JavaScript agents framework) and updates to Workers AI. blog.cloudflare.com/build-ai-age...

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Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents

Today we’re excited to share a few announcements on how we’re making it even easier to build AI agents on Cloudflare, including a new agents-sdk, a new JavaScript agents framework, and updates to Work...

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Brendan Coll @mrbbot.dev · 23/02/2025

Hey! 👋 In ~2 months, I'm presenting a research project at Node Congress that compiles JVM bytecode to WebAssembly, letting you import Java functions in JavaScript. 😈 This'll allow existing Java code to run in the browser and new JS runtimes like Cloudflare Workers... 🙈 gitnation.com/badges/node-...

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Check out my badge & claim your free Node Congress 2025 remote ticket!

Join 5k engineers worldwide at Node Congress 2025 and meet 15+ top speakers at April 17 - 18, 2025

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 21/02/2025

My startup shut down over 8 years ago and I still get contacted EVERY DAY by phone, text, and/or email by people offering various forms of (presumably predatory) business financing.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 15/02/2025

I figured it out, and it's so dumb: The motherboard was just confused about which GPU to use to display the BIOS UI. I configured the BIOS to use the motherboard's integrated VGA and ignore the GPUs. Now it boots fine and both GPUs work great for ollama. 🤦 bsky.app/profile/kent...

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 01/02/2025

Surprisingly, I got all my my parts for the AI server and they all work. Except when I put them all together. With both GPUs in, the Asrock ROMED8-2T motherboard hangs with code b2. With either one GPU on its own, it boots fine. BIOS is updated, not sure what else to do. :(

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 31/01/2025

Well well well. A Secure [AI] App Store, you say. Users control their data all in one place, you say. Users control what each app can see, you say. Make app development easy, you say. Where have I heard this before. www.ycombinator.com/rfs

Screenshot of the section titled "A Secure AI App Store" from https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

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Ingvar Stepanyan @rreverser.com · 31/01/2025

This one?

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 26/01/2025

I have ordered a second RTX 3090, reburbished, from some no-name Amazon Marketplace seller. It cost as much as the one I bought brand-new four years ago. Apparently linking two of these is by far the cheapest way to self-host AI models requiring 48GB VRAM? (diclaimer: I'm an AI noob)

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 23/01/2025

FF16 be like... "Wolves are attacking our village, can you help?" "In my most recent battle I fought a dragon god. We launched ourselves into orbit. He fired gigawatt lasers at me and I responded with nuclear fireballs. I won. These wolves might be tough though, I'll see what I can do."

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dbezhetskov.bsky.social @dbezhetskov.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hey, there is a new blog post for people who are interested in pointer compression, isolate groups, and sandbox in V8. dbezhetskov.dev/multi-sandbo...

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Multi-cage mode and multiple sandboxes

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 12/01/2025

The staircase to my second floor has 17 steps and I find this infuriating.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 10/01/2025

Hate to say it but since implementing auto-formatting in our C++ codebase I think we've spent 1000x more time fighting the auto-formatter than we ever spent arguing about formatting.

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Adam Snodgrass @overra.com · 02/01/2025

this reminded me of a dub I made about Cloudflare a couple months ago. just regenerated it with durable objects context

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 06/01/2025

There should be a way to short-sell overhyped technologies in general. I could have made so much money short-selling VR/AR a few years back, and then lost it all short-selling blockchain.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 06/01/2025

December power usage. Can you spot the 48-hour LAN party?

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 04/01/2025

DRAM failure light on your motherboard? It might mean: - You need to update your bios. - Your CPU is fried. It does NOT mean: - Anything is wrong with your DRAM. True across all chipsets, Intel and AMD, AFAICT (4 data points so far).

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Sunil Pai @threepointone.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

doing my best impression of a devrel

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 29/12/2024

Friends are arriving tomorrow for multi-day New Year's LAN party, so today I went on a 45-mile bike ride to charge up my "right to drink beer" meter. That's how it works, right?

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 19/12/2024

Startup idea: Sell the dumbest possible TV that acts as a chromecast/airplay target. No other UI, no apps, it just plays the casted video and turns off. Sell as a luxury product, high margin. I will buy it.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 12/12/2024

Can someone please add bindat() and connectat() to Linux? With same semantics as FreeBSD. Motivation: - All the usual reasons why -at variants exist for syscalls that take paths. - Easier to work around sockaddr_un.sun_path length limit of 108.

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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 09/12/2024

"Hah! If I use a fake ID and a 3D-printed gun they'll never be able to find me!" *continues to carry said fake ID and 3D-printed gun days after the crime* ... really?

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