After the Quick Tunnels Moment: What Account-Less Tunnels Get Right, and Where They StopOn September 18, 2026, a link to Cloudflare’s Quick Tunnels page climbed to the top of Hacker News, collecting more than 800 points and 300 comments, according to Cloudflare’s own write-up. Two weeks 17m ago · 13 min readinstatunnel.hashnode.dev
Stripe Thin Events on Localhost: When the CLI Is Enough and When You Need a Stable Public URLIf you wrote your Stripe webhook handler a few years ago, it probably assumes the event contains the whole object. Thin events break that assumption on purpose. A thin event is a small notification th1d ago · 16 min readinstatunnel.hashnode.dev
Cookies on Tunnel Domains: Why Login Works on localhost but Breaks on a Tunnel URLYou build a login flow, test it on localhost:3000, and it works. Then you expose the app through a tunnel to demo it, test OAuth, or open it on a phone. The login form submits, the server returns 200,2d ago · 15 min readinstatunnel.hashnode.dev
Chrome’s Local Network Access Prompt: What Breaks for Localhost Dev (and When a Tunnel Is the Wrong Fix)If a hosted frontend suddenly can’t reach your localhost:8080 API in Chrome, you have almost certainly met Local Network Access (LNA). Since Chrome 142, requests from public websites to local and loop2d ago · 13 min readinstatunnel.hashnode.dev
Local-First AI Agent Testing: How to Expose Local MCP Servers Safely Without Compromising Host SecurityIntroduction: Local Tools, Remote Clients AI engineering has moved a lot of work onto developer machines. Agents call local tools, read local files, and query local databases through the Model Context4d ago · 15 min readinstatunnel.hashnode.dev
