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Briefing · Tuesday, May 5, 2026

What developers shipped

15 items kept · 20 classified · 20 sourced · 1 deduplicated.

The cut · the day's read

What's working

  1. [r/CloudFlare] cf-colo-watcher: Monitor Cloudflare colo (datacenter) routing and TTFB in real time.. Real-time monitoring of Cloudflare colo routing and TTFB is now possible.
  2. Comment on: Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust. Vinext, Cloudflare's Next.js port, is used in production with minimal issues.
  3. What to do before quantum computers break today's encryption (Cloudflare). Cloudflare discusses preparing for quantum computer encryption breaks.

What's friction

  1. [r/CloudFlare] AI suggested me to remove SSO to solve an issue now I am locked. User locked out after removing SSO based on AI suggestion.

What's being asked

  1. [r/selfhosted] Local vs. remote access via same address - Split DNS? Tailscale optimizations?. Several developers are wrestling with local and remote access via Cloudflared.
  2. [r/CloudFlare] Help a beginner. Beginners are seeking help with configuring HTTPS for Cloudflare Tunnels.
  3. Ask HN:How's you experience building an app on Cloudflare? (Workers, D1,R2 etc.). Developers are sharing experiences building apps with Cloudflare Workers and R2.
★★★☆☆ · q-and-a · via Reddit

[r/selfhosted] Help a beginner

Beginner seeks help with configuring Cloudflare Tunnels for HTTPS access to self-hosted apps on Ugreen NAS.

Zero Trust

★★★☆☆ · q-and-a · via Reddit

[r/CloudFlare] Help a beginner

Beginner seeks help with configuring HTTPS for Cloudflare Tunnels on Ugreen NAS

Zero Trust

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