Omkar Khair

curious. helping build on @cloudflare. views are my own.

[Omkar Khair @omtalk]

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Ethan Limchayseng @eth415]

I'm new to the Durable Objects team, and I've been seriously amazed by how locked in everyone is on making DOs and Workers the best platform to build on.

Two big wins delivered from the team - together, these help your app & agent get to work sooner.

Both of these improvements are live, with no code changes needed.

fewer cold starts:
https://t.co/QGrHirr1jB

improved relocation request routing:
https://t.co/5Fy2JEC2h5

[brandon @burcs]

for some reason my conference talk, "the truth behind cloudflare's edge network" keeps getting rejected...

[Jilles Soeters @Jilles]

AI Gateway Provider Keys now show "last-used" (1) and "last-updated" (2) dates, and the Key security section flags keys idle for 90 days or more.

Review activity, check dependencies, and delete stale provider credentials in the same place 🔥

[Omkar Khair @omtalk]

As someone who grew up on the internet, I hate that Instagram reels have become a way to share information. Entertainment is fine, but information in reel form defeats the purpose, especially since you can't put a clickable link in a caption to back anything up.

So as an experiment, I proposed a rule in a couple of WhatsApp groups: whenever you want to share a reel, look up an article on it first, or better yet, the original source and share that instead. Let’s see how that goes.

Yup. I'm fun at parties.

[log4j @log4j]

cloudflare is about to patent this

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

it's shocking that software engineering has transitioned to 100% AI written in such a short time.

it's more shocking that somehow we, the SWEs, are all just continuing on as if nothing happened. It writes C++ better than I ever could, but the problem of making sure it works didn't magically disappear. we are just shipping enormously more volume at higher quality.

[Rishabh Karnawat @rishabhkio]

Peter Thiel’s bets are just too unique.

A few months ago, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led a $220 million investment in Halter at a $2 billion valuation.

Halter is a New Zealand startup that has essentially made physical fences unnecessary for cattle farming.

It puts solar-powered, GPS-enabled collars on cows, allowing farmers to create invisible fences, move entire herds from their phones, and monitor animal health in real time.

As a cow nears a boundary, speakers on one side of the collar emit a tone that grows faster as she gets closer, telling her which way to turn. A gentle vibration confirms when she is moving in the right direction. Only if she ignores both does the collar deliver a mild electric pulse, weaker than a standard electric fence.

After about a week of training, cows respond to sound alone.

In effect, Halter has turned one of the oldest forms of physical labour into something that can be managed through software.

[Omkar Khair @omtalk]

lost youtube premium because google can't narrow down my country of residence to raise a bill.

I'm now being advised by AI slop ads to disappear for a month. I wonder if that fixes the issue.

[Omkar Khair @omtalk]

@mayur_tendulkar @roerohan from the 2009 Mayur I knew - you sir have come a long way. welcome to the rebellion.

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

A hop-by-hop view of @Cloudflare network engineer @tstrickx crossing the Atlantic on Starlink Wi-Fi.

Over 8 hours and 7,000 km, Starlink handed off satellites every 15 seconds and carried traffic through 7 Cloudflare deployments. Each plane appears to keep its own IPv6 /56.

Over the ocean, inter-satellite lasers carried traffic to the nearest available ground station. Cloudflare’s anycast routing followed it, keeping traffic local as the plane moved at 40,000 feet and 500 knots.

- Ocean crossings use inter-satellite laser links until traffic can reach a ground station.
- Those laser routes appeared slower than fiber in this single test.
- Latency showed two distinct bands, possibly from first-packet dataplane setup.
- Ground-station selection changed during the flight, including a Canada-to-US switch near the border.
- Cloudflare’s anycast routing followed the ground station, not the plane’s source address. That kept traffic local without DNS-based steering.

https://t.co/0RHxDlM8PI

[Michelle Zatlyn @zatlyn]

Great conversations and insights at #STACK2026 today. Thank you for having me @GovTechSG.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Are you based in Pune and doing something interesting with AI? A bunch of us are meeting tomorrow (Thursday, Nov 5, 6pm, in IISER Pune, LHC room 101). Would love to have you there.

Ideally, would love to have you spend 5 minutes talking about/presenting what you did. Please DM

[Omkar Khair @omtalk]

At STACK Conference @zatlyn took stage to help prepare for the new era of the Internet. It’s a full house!

[Vue Fes Japan @vuefes]

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[Fayaz Ahmed @fayazara]

A sneak peek of the uncoming website for Coworkers

[Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve]

vinext 1.4 is out with a bunch of performance improvements https://t.co/oPaFm31wcw

[Paul Graham @paulg]

We're about to enter a period where not reading or writing becomes as ubiquitous as smoking once was. We can hope people will eventually realize this is bad for them, as they did with smoking. But this is far from certain; the cost may not be as obvious.

[Ashley Peacock @ashleypeacock]

My talk from Connect is now available to watch!

[Josh Howard @ajoshhoward]

Sunil is just being humble. This guy invented Durable Objects.