👋 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).

“This lawsuit has no merit. It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent reporting. The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation tactics.” www.nytco.com/press/the-ne...

Interesting: 20% have reserved their usernames with Bluesky. Even though the journey is a bit rocky and needs some work still (some out of our control). Love that. It’s good that we have a platform to share without getting punished for sharing, gasp, journalism.

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State of this absolute bullshit 'analysis' honestly.

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On this pont does anyone have any suggestions of good policy podcasts on UK politics? I love The Ezra Klein Show from NYT, the FT's Political Fix is generally very good, but the BBC's offerings particularly are just horse racing, sound bites, gotchas and gossip.

This is great reporting. This anaemic government needs to actually get to passing useful legislation. An easy one would be to make landlords liable for unpaid taxes up to the value of the lease. This would immediately make it unprofitable to lease to these phoenix companies. Why is that so hard?

This has got me so curious in the IPSA website that I've spent the last hour vibe-coding a database to work out if any other MP besides David Davis have expensed a top tier iPad. Literally, guy expensed £3077 on a single iPad. Clicked the maximum for everything. Absolute chad.

Why do we have to test this so frequently? Surely this increases the likelihood that people will just switch the alerts off entirely?

I am once again asking why they do not sell massive packs of McCoys Salt and Vinegar.

Why are Sky News blurring the faces of adults who are likely committing a racially aggravated offence in the process of their reporting? 🫠

Successfully followed enough tech (read: Cloudflare) people on the former bird site that none of my feed (bar Hasan Abi getting hyped) has even mentioned it. Blissful.

My current shortcut: 1. Go to ChatGPT 2. Ask literally anything 3. Find and copy an em dash.

The quality of preparation for this interview by the producers and interviewer is exceptionally poor given all the talking points have already been refuted by other outlets. "Afghans are 22x more likely to commit offenses" (a falsehood) was met by the equivalent of "no they're not".

The quiet part said out loud in this clip. "You're speaking more directly than you used to". "We left our jobs at the Washington Post."

Cloudflare have deployed a new, widely adoptable, video and data streaming solution to their entire network that promises to solve for some of the challenges embedded in how media streaming works today. The blog post on it is a pretty good read on what those are. blog.cloudflare.com/moq/

Am I being trolled by all these 'Claude Code on the server' people rolling apps by ssh-ing directly into a box and vibe coding live? I am right? Seems to be no benefit over doing the same thing locally and rapid deployment (eg. wrangler deploy, vercel deploy, alchemy deploy).

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This is a problem that newsrooms are likely to have so long as they compete with AI info startups, which I believe anyone looking a few years ahead should support experimenting in that space. If they don't it will be another startup regurgitating their reporting. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...

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Claude Code can now do background tasks, which is awesome because previously commands like npx wrangler tail would need to be manually stopped after you produced the logs necessary, in tandem. Now Claude can itself monitor the logs whilst invoking APIs to trigger them, and stop when needed.

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New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...