On a side note it's absolutely mad what Opus 4.5 is capable of. If you're not already changing how you make journalism interactive and engaging with AI, this is your wake up call. I made up this whole graphic in just a couple of hours and touched the code once.

If you cycle in London you've probably watched a Lime bike blow through a red light inches from a pedestrian. I think Lime's per-minute pricing is partly to blame: every second costs money, so riders race the clock. So I've made a route planner to see how the costs stack up.

Rather than reinventing countless wheels, Netlify and Cloudflare are now collaborating on framework detection and auto-configuration! Cloudflare engineers have been contributing to the open-source www.npmjs.com/package/@net..., which wrangler now leverages just like Netlify. 🤝

ayy this is great

Big improvement to frameworks on Cloudflare! You can now deploy most frameworks from the CLI with zero config. No adding adapters. No editing configs. No wrangler.toml! It's all done automatically. Experimental now, with 10 frameworks supported today. developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/20...

🆕 Today in wrangler 4.55, experimental automatic configuration for your web framework for Cloudflare Workers. npx wrangler deploy --x-autoconfig We support Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, and many more, + static sites. developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/20...

Journalist friends! @cloudflare.social have just released their year in review for the internet as a whole and there are some really fun stats in there: - Global traffic up by 19% YoY - AI Bots responsible for 4.2% of all requests - 83 Government directed Internet Outages

Couldn’t be more grateful for being appointed to the board of Republik magazine. @republik.ch is a young Swiss journalism institution that is ready for the turbulent moment we're in. It literally can’t be bought thanks to its unique setup. Work starts soon and I’m so excited to get started.

Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.

Congratulations to Reuters for having the fastest scraper I guess? And commiserations to the OBR for not thinking about how their backend should not be overloaded by a rush if they had implemented a CDN appropriately. But they seem to have implemented nothing appropriately so quelle surprise.

I am once again asking lobby journalists to spend their time reporting on the implications of real life policy decisions and not the manufactured drama on whether someone said something wrong in the past. Please.

It’s an indictment of our media that more time is being spent on whether Reeves lied about the need to raise taxes than on the actual substance of the policies announced on Wednesday.

The Chancellor's interviews today are the definition of the performance of scrutiny - it looks dogged and aggressive, but there was absolutely no chance that it was going to reveal anything important or in any way actually probe the decisions in a budget built on sand!

Please former FT colleagues: fix this issue with enterprise sharing where a link just completely black holes when the tokens expire. It is incredibly frustrating.

We went and got the hats in the rain.

This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...

The "please just do something" argument for British political survival.

The Spectator have done this pretty rubbish and hand-wavy analysis on BBC push notifications, and of course I'm interested but they don't quote where they source their data. (And I'm pretty sure it's either me, or that they've been doing the same thing solo). www.spectator.co.uk/article/reve...

This from @lewisgoodall.com on the recent BBC mess is so good. Particularly this bit. I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it. How commonplace it all is. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

We wrote a blog! If you're curious about how remote bindings work in Wrangler, give it a read: blog.cloudflare.com/connecting-t...

i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...

The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wait a second... I actually have the data for this! @project-push.tk.gg ! For specific terms, and for more generic 'migrant' terms included in notifications, the BBC is squarely in the middle of the pack over the last year. For more generic terms they are... also in the middle of the pack.

Remember that it would be beneficial for many private media owners in the UK if the BBC were to cease to exist.

👋 Cloudflare peeps! How do you manage with inspecting local resources like KV/R2/D1/DOs? Have you ever encountered a challenge where you wanted to know more about your current resource state? Do you use any tools? Is this just not a problem for your case?

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

In the last few days, the Times has had to delete two stories. One because someone pretended to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio to a reporter and one because they wrote up nonsense about Torsten Bell's expenses. Needs a new editor badly.

New from wrangler, no more complaints for missing IDs in your config file. 🆕 Now we generate D1, KV, and R2 resources automatically for you when you don't specify them on deployment. All kudos to @penalosa.link who was working on this well before I joined.

Eek.

So hyped to work with Matt on this.

be me >Google Gemini API deprecates embedding model I've been using. >Emails me about it. Says I have until the 30th to change. >Claude writes script today to switch to new model and re-embed everything. >API is responding 503 every 30 attempts because everyone is doing the same thing. ffs.

Good thread. Very relevant to local/new journalistic initiatives also.

The easiest way to show your newsroom is actually thinking about AI isn't the 50th summarization tool or chatbot. It's automating the jobs people don't want to do. Like, bluesky's favourite: alt text! I wrote about how we built this at the FT, with an interactive demo: tk.gg/posts/ai-alt...

It is very weird to describe The Free Press as a news organization when on its masthead it has as many columnists as it has editorial staff.

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I left the @financialtimes.com yesterday. As is tradition, everyone leaving the FT with enough tenure gets a front page satirising their accomplishments and my team did not hold back. @posthog.com and coda.io got some serious free advertising too. Unfortunately for them that advertising is to me.

The first piece from the "If the product is news" series from Mariah Craddick interviewing @sebastianwinther.bsky.social of @zetland.dk is great. Putting product into steering groups with editors and other leaders, building focus, and using my favourite $100 exercise. newsproduct.org/blog/if-the-...

Overnight, the Online Safety Act has claimed its first victim. Imgur.com is no longer serving for UK based users. This means millions of embedded images on community forums and social networks like Reddit don't resolve for UK users anymore. A VPN is required to use these bits of the internet now.

Triangle man really doing his absolute best to lose any anti-genocide customers eh.

First reference of this story on bsky from push notification monitoring

It's such a VIBE to see your product used in the way you envisioned, by people you admire. @kattenbarge.bsky.social hopped on @katelynburns.com podcast. In the shownotes? A simple link that lets you stay connected to both. They're closing the loop on a collab and helping each other grow.

@batariangal.bsky.social Hey! I saw your @bbcpushlog.bsky.social account mention @project-push.tk.gg in a chat a while back. Let me know if you want to tie this to the Project Push API, or work on something together if you're a programmer. Lots more to do here and I am time poor right now!

Don't worry everyone, News Corp have a great track record of buying and successfully managing social networks.

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

Just saying you can house a tech worker in London for a whole year for far less than $100k. Europe should start quietly operating visa systems for these companies who have workers that frankly may not want to return to the US right now.

Very interesting that Twitter is now doing some fact checking community notes with AI sourcing (with success, this one is correct!)

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Having late night fun with @vercel.com's AI SDK, OpenAI's web search and some prompting for claim identification.

Would anyone else who the New York Times is repeatedly trying to upsell a Family Plan to like to take money away from them by signing up to a family plan with me so we don't get bothered again? (Really do not understand the rate the NYT pushes upsells on its paying subscribers).