Inspired by the recent justfuckingusetailwind.com, I built a similar "love letter" to the Cloudflare ecosystem.
I find myself reaching for Workers, R2, D1, and KV for almost every project lately, so I wanted to capture that sentiment in a single, slightly over-the-top page.
It’s a simple side project, but the stack is:
- Vite + TypeScript - Biome + Ultracite - Deployed (obviously) on Cloudflare
First draft in Claude, the copy was drafted with Grok to get that specific tone, then I used Google's AI Studio to accelerate the build with touch up's in Cursor.
Link: https://justfuckingusecloudflare.com Repo: https://github.com/mynameistito/justfuckingusecloudflare
Curious to hear everyone's thoughts on the CF stack vs alternatives and more traditional deployments.
On a technical level, their support is really bad. They want you to do all the debugging and data collection like they have no access to anything - until you start escalating. I experienced that multiple times.
Now that I’ve used it for a few years professionally, my opinions are much more nuanced and hard to put into words. Cloudflare’s products are mostly pretty good, and the cost savings are very attractive. You just have to be willing to work at their level.
also they are becoming cloud service provider that can really threaten many big player because from bandwidth alone is real game changer
Big love for cloudflare though - all my apps are hosted with it. Their components and generous free tier have been able to let me ship so many random things.
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Customers can not, no matter how hard they try, build highly available services using Cloudflare.
They are quite proud of it too if you read the smugness in their blogs about having just 1 region: Earth... Yet they keep having global outages.
I can no longer recommend them.
Cloudflare is a cancer interjecting itself into all sorts of communication I'd rather have directly with the other party, like my bank, email, blogs, health providers etc.
Gatekeeping the broader internet from people in poorer countries, people using VPNs etc.
I predict they will be the first pushing DRM blobs instead of html/js and killing the open web.
Obligatory resource: https://0xacab.org/dCF/deCloudflare
Any single US entity trying to MITM such large swatches of global internet traffic is inherently dangerous to global freedom. they're a single point of failure for national security letters and secret gag orders that can compel them to perform targeted censorship, backdoor all sorts of software via HTTP distribution channels, assist in US disinformation operations by rewriting third party content, etc. They could be logging literally every plaintext HTTP request and response passing through their servers and leaving it wide open in some noSQL database for hackers to go steal from someday - users have no way to trust that Cloudflare is even competently qualified to protect what they collect, and there's nothing stopping Cloudflare from blatantly lying about what they collect. This wouldn't be as big of an issue if they weren't collecting your social security / national insurance number, name, age, date of birth, address, contact information, credit card details, usernames, passwords, and every other piece of data under the sun on sites that sit behind CF, including government websites and websites that function more or less as public utilities.
Cloudflare poses an impossible to overstate threat to your right to privacy, your right to freedom of speech, to democracy itself, to say nothing of the threat they pose to the free and open web. They are very nearly as large of a stain on what was arguably one of the crowning accomplishments of the human race (the internet) as the largest evil corporations on the planet - Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Meta (Facebook), etc.