The Joys of Free Cloudflare
The article discusses the author's experiences with the free tier of Cloudflare while developing personal projects. It highlights the ease of using Cloudflare Pages and Workers for hosting and automating tasks. The author shares specific projects, including a personal train timetable and a system for saving FX volume data.
- ▪The author has been using Cloudflare's free tier for various side projects.
- ▪One project is a personal train timetable that filters fast trains based on platform.
- ▪The author also utilizes Cloudflare Workers to automate the saving of FX volume data.
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- ▪ The Joys of Free Cloudflare — r/programming
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| Original publisher | Dean Markwick |
| Canonical URL | https://dm13450.github.io/2026/05/18/the-joys-of-free-cloudflare.html |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 17:26:02 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T17:34:56.718Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T17:34:56.718Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | o_v4RWgVF88- · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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The Joys of Free Cloudflare May 18, 2026 I’ve been tinkering around with the free tier on Cloudflare and have managed to churn out a couple of side projects. Of course, I had a little help with various AI systems, but it was assisted rather than vibe-coded. Enjoy these types of posts? Then sign up for my newsletter. Most of my work life is spent in Jupyter notebooks looking at data. Most of my blogging is looking at data using Julia or Python. Every now and then I branch out and build something other people can use like Crypto Liquidity Metrics. It’s a simple Netlify-hosted website with pretty simple HTML and JavaScript, but it doesn’t really use ‘the cloud’ in any meaningful way. I want to start expanding my horizons and using more of what’s available to build things.
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