Tweet by benallfree

June 5, 2025

yesterday's coding ended early because i took a day trip to SF and got to meet some of the @Cloudflare crew. i met @dok2001 @oroup @ritakozlov @dinasaur_404 @irvinebroque and a few others i haven't tracked down on x yet. (if you're the guy who recognized my @PinkGorillaLLC shirt hmu) from the first interaction, i was hit with an `oh shit` (in a good way) feeling. these are highly competent people. when you meet someone with high competency, there is an ease and friendliness. a sense that long explanations, or even short explanations, are not necessary because they already know. words feel slow compared to the mind meld already happening. i went to cfhq because we have been exploring the idea of me joining cf in some capacity. if i did, i would be in a better position to develop projects like AdminDO and dofs, and persistent storage for cf containers. there are pieces of these projects that really want to live in the underlying infrastructure. i'd have more visibility and influence if i were on the inside. from my point of view, i'm on a trajectory to develop the same kind of infrastructure anyway, so if i can multiply the impact of my work by accomplishing it through cf then all the better. having the support of competent people and being able to support them too sounds really good. so i hope something happens! and you're talkin to a guy who is extremely averse to structure and authority not backed by competency. i also really love teaching, sharing, tool making, and spiking new ideas, building infra, ts, rust, hardware, asm.... i guess i like software at every level. building in public. trying to do something, hitting walls, taking sidequests, and making the dx better for the next person. i often feel that my top level projects are actually just conversation starters with the universe, meant to reveal the real work. for example, AdminDO has already yielded vite-plugin-unpkg which is a humble but important contribution to the no-build movement that seems to be emerging. frontend tooling and frameworks have become so complex and unwieldy, i see a landscape ripe for contraction back to simplicity. it's why i like @pocketbase, why i made https://t.co/1Eq3tC7z5C and https://t.co/ZnfBGT70x5 and why projects like @htmx_org and data-star @DelaneyGillilan seem vital. cf plugs into this simplicity too. they've abstracted away almost all the complexity of shipping scale to zero. so yeah, i think there is something going on at the intersection of all this and it was fun to meet some of the ppl involved thanks for the generosity!

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benallfree
Date
June 5, 2025
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