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MARCH 16, 2026•1 MIN READ•CLOUDFLARE
Cloudflare is kinda cool?
Just a small shill for Cloudflare, which I've been using for a long time... but only recently started "using" it properly... and wow, it's kind of amazing?!
- Cloudflare Tunnels - I've found myself using this to test mobile apps against a local API, and it's worked amazingly. I even made a ngrok style wrapper around it!
- Cloudflare Workers - even though it's not "Node", V8 isolates are pretty amazing, and they now power quite a few of my sites.
- Zero Trust - woah, not to take a dig at Vercel... but remember that post I made about paying $150 just to add a password? Well, Cloudflare's basically like: here's a free tier with OAuth and 50 seats. Super freaking cool.
- Cloudflare Emails - want to create a catch-all email alias, or specific email aliases? Yep, Cloudflare can do that too.
- Cloudflare Domains + DNS control - I can buy a domain for an actually good price, then do whatever I want with it. Add subdomains, manage DNS easily, and it all integrates really nicely with Workers. It's just so good.