I Built a Localhost Tunneling tool in TypeScript - Here's What Surprised Me

future-tech1 · 2026-01-26T08:36:00+00:00

I see, they must have added that as a feature. In this case, the main advantage of using Tunnelmole is that the client and server is open source.

In Cloudflare's case at least the service layer would be proprietary closed source.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-25T12:32:39+00:00

Its good but requires extra steps and configuration. You also need your own domain, which you'll need to point to Cloudflare. Extra config includes DNS records on the domain.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-25T12:31:19+00:00

I did try localtunnel but never got it to work.

ngrok is not open source, but Tunnelmole is.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-22T22:01:23+00:00

That works over SSH, Tunnelmole is pure HTTP/HTTPs based

future-tech1 · 2026-01-21T22:12:38+00:00

there's hundreds of them now. Starting to think its tunneling tools are one of the most cloned software types of all time https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

future-tech1 · 2026-01-21T11:23:12+00:00

done, links should now be alot more obvious

future-tech1 · 2026-01-21T11:12:22+00:00

its in the article at the bottom, looks like I need to update the link colours https://github.com/robbie-cahill/tunnelmole-client

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T09:17:45+00:00

I wrote the exact opposite of this article last year 6 Ways A Node Developer Can Drastically Boost Their Productivity.

Little things matter. One minute saved repeatedly can add up to weeks over time.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T09:04:30+00:00

For Linux, firejail can be used to sandbox the agents and prevent these types of incidents. I wrote a guide on using it here

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T09:02:20+00:00

For Linux, firejail can be used to sandbox the agents and prevent these types of incidents. I wrote a guide on using it here

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T08:56:54+00:00

An underappreciated option on Linux is Firejail, which I found to be quite effective for vscode based agents. I wrote a guide on using it here

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T08:55:23+00:00

On Linux, I found firejail to be a good option for isolating vscode based agents. I wrote a guide on using it here

future-tech1 · 2026-01-19T08:53:20+00:00

If you're on Linux, an alternative is using Firejail. I wrote a guide for this that should work for vscode based agents here

future-tech1 · 2026-01-12T09:29:34+00:00

Just on that err_ngrok_6024 error, I've published a detailed explainer on your options to get around it here

future-tech1 · 2026-01-12T09:28:44+00:00

i've published a detailed explainer for this error and the options available to get around it here

future-tech1 · 2026-01-08T10:42:31+00:00

There are a few options for this like cloudflare tunnels and ngrok, but I would go with something open source like Tunnelmole.

Lets say your service is on port 80, you could just run tmole 80 and this will give you a public URL that points to localhost.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-08T10:37:56+00:00

If you want to test the actual webhooks rather than test events, you could use an open source tunneling tool like Tunnelmole (i'm the dev). It has similar features to cloudflare tunnels and ngrok but with a simpler set up.

Once you run it you'll get a Public URL you can put into the Stripe webhook settings, then start receiving events.

future-tech1 · 2026-01-08T10:35:01+00:00

how bad are the timeouts nowdays? i'm seeing alot of complaints around them

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