Kenton Varda ✓

@KentonVarda · Austin, TX · joined 18 Nov 2008

Tech lead for @Cloudflare Workers, https://t.co/bFUDCZ7BUc, https://t.co/Hjf1slmJqs, https://t.co/oIKxYZA4LW. 🦋 https://t.co/8QKY5gf1BK

20 827Followers

294Following

6 768Posts total

2.1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

26 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views11 140this account1 089median for 10K–100K

Reach, %53.49%this account3.50%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.65%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	11 140	1 089	10.2×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	53.49%	3.50%	15.3×
Engagement rate	0.65%	2.00%	0.32×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1K5 Aug

24.8K6 Aug

24.2K

3.2K

8.1K30 Aug

1.2K31 Aug

28K

963

378

842

10.1K3 Sep

26K5 Sep

4.2K

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

5.86%5 Aug

0.46%6 Aug

0.25%

0.91%

0.19%

1.41%30 Aug

0.24%31 Aug

2.20%

0.52%

1.59%

1.90%

1.49%3 Sep

1.03%5 Sep

2.06%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes61.9%12 649 in total

Reposts4.7%956 in total

Replies2.3%479 in total

Quotes1.5%308 in total

Bookmarks29.6%6 058 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

5 Sep

Daily snapshots since 05 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

We should get TSMC to write the 13 million lines of Lean into the margin of Fermat's book. 4.2K views · 75 likes · 5 reposts · 6 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

DoorDash login has the absolutely bizarre behavior that if you've logged in from a given IP address before, then future sign-in attempts from the same IP will reveal your phone number given only your email address (before actually authenticating). This of course totally makes it 26K views · 248 likes · 2 reposts · 17 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

People fretting about whether AI is conscious and therefore deserves human rights are missing a key point: our system of rights and ethics derive not just from our intelligence but also our fragility, which AI doesn't have. Imagine a world where everyone could make a backup of 10.1K views · 117 likes · 12 reposts · 18 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@KentonVarda LLVM has a good AI policy related to this. https://t.co/2hfPfMzN8t https://t.co/4IMozgSscC 842 views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@KentonVarda LOL would actually be more helpful if they could just contribute real tokens for maintainers to use 378 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@KentonVarda literally https://t.co/1gYZRid09w 963 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Please do not direct your agent to burn down issues on someone else's open source project. Reviewing your "contribution" is actually more work for a maintainer than it is for them to direct their own agent to fix the same bug. So you are actually creating work, not helping. 28K views · 549 likes · 37 reposts · 28 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

i have to deny about 99% of the upstream pull request and issues that Claude wants to make, maintainers, i take my thank yous in bitcoin, not all hero's wear capes. jokes aside, i see exactly why open source packages get bombarded with AI slop. models have clearly been trained 1.2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Played Big Walk with my friend group yesterday; reached the ending in about 10 hours (but there's more content still). Amazing game. Best multiplayer experience I've had in a long time. I really hope "team collaborative puzzles" becomes a genre. https://t.co/9qN5998NzN 8.1K views · 100 likes · 2 reposts · 11 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

https://t.co/nUvnLcIGQW 3.2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 06 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Look, I wanted to call it Lairs. Like your personal AI lair. The agents were "minions". You built "gadgets". See "AI" is right there in the name: "l-ai-r" I even registered lairs[.]net. And you're mad about it being called an OS? Be thankful they didn't let me name it. 24.2K views · 197 likes · 4 reposts · 14 replies 06 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

https://t.co/OhbI7KUsLt 4K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 06 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

A month ago I gate a talk at AI Engineer World's Fair about Gadgets -- the kernel underlying Cloudflare OS. Here it is. https://t.co/jTuWB0kqdy 24.8K views · 96 likes · 11 reposts · 5 replies 06 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@KentonVarda man, what does OS mean here? 1K views · 60 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Some sweet demo videos in this thread. https://t.co/Ec2CgnemuO 7.5K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

BTW, this past fun tweet was on an early prototype of this project. This was sort of an emergent feature I didn't even intend: A Gadget is a combination of some client code and some server code connected over Cap'n Web RPC, so that the client can just call methods on the server 10.1K views · 32 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Here's @LakeAustinBlvd's own take: https://t.co/j1QmKlTzgy 11.2K views · 45 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I should mention, Cloudflare OS is the combination of several ideas from different parts of the company. I dwell on the Sandstorm lineage here because it's obviously what I'm excited about. However, there's a whole other side that's about making AI work well for your company, 15.4K views · 62 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Today we're open sourcing Cloudflare OS: - An agent workspace grounded in skills your team curates. - A platform for personal, modifiable apps that people can build and share. - A new security framework for safe access to internal data. You can use it to: https://t.co/zbOtRxT5z 109.4K views · 739 likes · 60 reposts · 30 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

BTW I think this project is pretty much exactly what @koomen described here: https://t.co/x0Brb5trtE "Share apps like sharing a Google Doc" is exactly how I've described Sandstorm's model for over a decade... 14.5K views · 61 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Also our landing page is pretty sweet, but as of this tweet doesn't have OG card info yet so doesn't render a nice image, oops. Workin on that. https://t.co/SXoZYFCnnF 11.1K views · 55 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Here's the announcement blog post. Warning: it's enterprise-focused. Let's be frank, that is the biggest market opportunity. But I personally very much care about the indie use case as well. I'm running an instance of this in my own basement. Speaking of which, the Gadget 13.8K views · 123 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I am so proud to say, we are making this whole thing open source, Apache 2.0 license, no catch. Truth be told, we weren't quite ready to launch this yet. That's why there's no online version you can just go to yet. But rather than pre-announce vaporware, we decided to go ahead 25.3K views · 248 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Of course, personal apps are more useful if they can connect to external services. Cloudflare OS introduces a "connector" system we call Gatekeepers. This is sort of like MCP (and MCP is supported as a kind of Gatekeeper), but with a lot more: * Instead of exposing tools, a 29.5K views · 137 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing. Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent 852K views · 6K likes · 700 reposts · 242 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

A Cloud for Small Software @koomen Agents make it easy to build personal tools for yourself or your team. But deploying, securing, and sharing that software is still far more complicated than creating it. A cloud built for small software could remove that complexity and make h 689.7K views · 273 likes · 14 reposts · 25 replies 22 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

Opus 4.6 is smart enough to play tic tac toe on this whiteboard with me entirely by making API calls to the app's client API, yet dumb enough to lose at tic tac toe. https://t.co/Z1oSOhz8hl 182.1K views · 3.4K likes · 86 reposts · 57 replies 05 Mar 2026 · Open on X →