The Hallway Track

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8 tracked signals on cloudflare.

Deno is joining Cloudflare

Simon Willison · Oct 09, 2026

Cloudflare acquires Deno, will discontinue the runtime within one year

“I no longer think it's where I can do the most important work. There are some good ideas in Deno and it's well engineered - but it ultimately is not solving big problems.”
Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents

Simon Willison · Jun 21, 2026

Cloudflare now lets you deploy ephemeral Workers projects via `npx wrangler deploy --temporary` with no account, lasting 60 minutes.

“The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for everyone else as well.”
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available

Simon Willison · Sep 21, 2026

Cloudflare Python Workers reach general availability after a two-year preview, running Python via Pyodide/WebAssembly.

“Python is now a first-class, fully supported language on the Cloudflare Developer Platform”
Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand

Simon Willison · Jun 16, 2026

Cloudflare CAPTCHA rules can be scoped to only challenge search URLs containing an ampersand, fixed via Claude Code.

“After some mucking around with Claude Code it turns out you can register the following rule instead, so the CAPTCHA only kicks in for search URLs containing at least one ampersand”