FlareCraft
Briefing · Sunday, May 17, 2026

What developers shipped

20 items kept · 21 classified · 22 sourced · 1 deduplicated.

The cut · the day's read

What's working

  1. [r/selfhosted] Turned my old MSI gaming laptop into a production Rails server, $0/month hosting using Cloudflare Tunnel. Turned old laptop into production Rails server using Cloudflare Tunnel.
  2. [r/CloudFlare] ClawPing - Cloudflare Workers watchdog for home servers, no public IP required. ClawPing: Cloudflare Workers watchdog for home servers, no public IP required.
  3. Cloudflare Rearchitects Workflows Control Plane for 50k Concurrent Instances. Cloudflare rearchitects Workflows control plane for 50k concurrent instances.

What's friction

  1. [r/CloudFlare] Cloudflare and other CDNs need to stop shielding carding sites and cybercrime rings. Critique of Cloudflare for shielding cybercrime sites.
  2. Comment on: What breaks when you ship Next.js on Cloudflare Workers. Compatibility issues with bcryptjs on Cloudflare Workers.
  3. What breaks when you ship Next.js on Cloudflare Workers. Shipping Next.js on Cloudflare Workers: what breaks and how to fix it.

What's being asked

  1. [r/selfhosted] Running plex through cloudflare. Several developers are running Plex through Cloudflare, seeking advice.
  2. [r/aws] Hosting a website on AWS CloudFront: What are the very best ways to avoid unwanted cost-overruns caused by bad code or malicious actors (DDoS attacks, denial-of-wallet attacks, etc)?. Developers are using Cloudflare to prevent cost-overruns on AWS CloudFront.
  3. [r/CloudFlare] How to see vectorize db quota. Several users are seeking help tracking Vectorize DB quota usage.
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User encounters Cloudflare security block on a website while using a corporate VPN.

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