Cloudflare keeps absorbing the developer stack

Cloudflare acquired Deno, the JavaScript runtime. Talorys launched as a self-hosted personal AI agent that runs inside your own Cloudflare account on the free tier. A commenter on that thread had never heard of Workers AI and asked what a free-tier "10,000 neurons a day" even means. In the older threads, a Docker pull failure in Spain traced back to Cloudflare blocking R2 during La Liga matches, and people said Cloudflare should just launch its own Docker registry.

The pattern here: Cloudflare is turning from a CDN into the default place where runtimes, agents, storage and registries live. That makes it more useful and more dangerous at the same time. The Spain block shows what happens when one provider's legal fight becomes your outage. The Pale Moon thread shows what happens when its bot checks decide which browsers count as human.

Counterpoint: some commenters push back on the framing. They note that "self-hosted" on someone else's cloud is not really self-hosted, and several ask how many people actually need this much edge infrastructure.