Matthew Prince 🌥
@eastdakota
A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer, and former ski instructor. Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).
The most interesting thing in tech: @Cloudflare has built a new tool that allows publishers to identify, track, and block any AI bots that are scraping their sites without permission. Here Gitesh Gohel and I explain the spreadsheet we've built to decide who to block --- and then…
Satellite #Internet provider @Starlink is currently experiencing a network-wide outage. They have acknowledged the outage, but have not yet provided information on a cause. x.com/Starlink/statu…
Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved.
We are trying to figure out what is going one with @Starlink. @Cloudflare seeing irregularities in their BGP advertisements, and a complete loss of traffic
Satellite #Internet provider @Starlink is currently experiencing a network-wide outage. They have acknowledged the outage, but have not yet provided information on a cause. x.com/Starlink/statu…
why break the Web like this? we offered to run it almost a year ago but were turned away.
Oh come on, how hard could it be to keep these links working forever? It could be like a 5-line Worker backed by KV and you'd never have to touch it once deployed. theverge.com/news/713125/go…
Think Google is done breaking publishers’ business models? Think again.
Google's new Web View search experiment organizes results with AI | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/goo…
Real-time, decentralized social apps — without running a single server. Here’s how to build and deploy an atproto app on Cloudflare Workers. cfl.re/3IFGyaR
With all do respect, looking forward to proving the President wrong.
At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is "not doable", calling for "common sense" AI and IP rules (Deadline) deadline.com/2025/07/trump-… mediagazer.com/250723/p21#a25…
Claude can code, but most setups trap it in a chat window. We made it real: a @Daytona sandbox behind a @Cloudflare Worker, running a live React + Vite project. Claude edits files directly, sees previews update live, and keeps state across sessions. No backend. No…
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Was staying in a hotel. Person I was sharing the room with locked something in the room safe. Couldn't reopen it (probably because of bad keypad debouncing when the code was set by her). Hotel hadn't set their own master password; the default was easily findable online.
Super cool!
We have some really, really promising forecasting technology we have been testing for the last year or two that I think will help us have much more accurate snowfall forecasts in Utah mountains.
🎉You can now run Browser Rendering locally with `npx wrangler dev`. This means rapid local testing, easy debugging, and no usage costs while you build. See more👇
Cloudflare’s WAF Managed Rules now includes 2 emergency releases, protecting against CVE-2025-53770, CVE-2025-53771. cfl.re/4lZEae1
The experience trying to build an AI system seems to lend the obvious answer to the religious paradox: if God is all good, and all knowing, and all powerful, why do bad things still happen? Clearly a bad prompt engineer.
Have feedback for how we improve IAM & RBAC here @Cloudflare? 👇
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