AI doesn't write bad code. It writes plausible code — so I tried to break my own AI-built app
Disclosure: I work on one of the tools in this post ( create-microservices-app ). But the experiment, commands, and outputs below are real, and the pa…
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My agent was 'succeeding' on Slack while silently doing nothing — here's the monitoring stack that caught it
My Slack bot was firing success messages while D1 row count sat completely frozen. The agent wasn't crashing — it was completing its Slack notificatio…
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At p99, a D1 read replica in Tokyo was 6.1 seconds behind a write that landed on the Eastern NA primary. I found this out not from the docs, but from …
Your AI Agent Can Delete Your DNS Records
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I wasted $43 rebuilding a Vectorize index the wrong way — here's the $5.50 fix
Last month's Anthropic bill hit $312. Sixty percent of it traced back to a single 6-hour window when I was doing an in-place Vectorize index rebuild. …
The X-Inertia cache trap: Cloudflare, Vary, and edge-cached HTML
I clicked the logo on one of my Laravel + Inertia sites and the homepage rendered inside Inertia's error modal — in production, on a 200 response. The…
Move Your WordPress.com Domain to Cloudflare and Halve the Renewal
This post was originally published on Techucation , my blog at malcolmlow.com. Cross-posted here for the dev.to community. My WordPress.com domain ren…
The Cloudflare toggle that's blocking your brand from ChatGPT
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The challenges of creating a semantic memory layer on Cloudflare Workers, D1, and Vectorize.
The main concept is straightforward: embed text, store the vector, and query it later. The time-consuming part was everything else. I created a memory…
We Built the Infrastructure for AI to Stop Guessing About Local Businesses
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Cloudflare vs Vercel for a SaaS in 2026 — which one I actually picked
Heads up: this post contains affiliate links to the two platforms it compares. I link both. I pay for both. The recommendation is the same one I'd giv…
Meet PageZERO: an open source SaaS starter kit on Cloudflare for the AI era
You have an idea for a SaaS. You open Cursor or Claude Code, and the familiar ritual begins. Auth. A database. Payments. Transactional email. Permissi…
How to Submit Your MCP Server to Anthropic's Connector Directory (From Someone Who Did It)
A practical guide based on real submission experience — what the form asks, what reviewers check, and what I got wrong the first time. I built an MCP …
I built two Etsy SEO tools in 14 days — full stack breakdown (Cloudflare Workers + KV + Stripe)
I built two Etsy SEO tools in 14 days — full stack breakdown I spent the last two weeks building two products targeting the 5M+ Etsy seller market. He…
Why AI Image Generation Should Be Async
AI image generation can look like a simple request-response feature. A user enters a prompt, clicks generate, and waits for an image. For a prototype,…
I built a "what is my IP" site because I was tired of the ugly ones
I use "what is my IP" sites maybe once a month. Every time I end up on something covered in ads, calling three different tracking APIs, and showing me…
How to Delete a Cloudflare Access Application (Without Guesswork)
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Using Cloudflare Turnstile Invisible Challenges for Mobile APIs Without Breaking the User Experience
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Security Week 2622: эффективность Claude Mythos по версии Cloudflare
На прошлой неделе компания Cloudflare поделилась своими впечатлениями о работе ИИ-модели Claude Mythos. Эта модель разработана компанией Anthropic, и …
Your robots.txt says GPTBot is welcome. Your server says 403.
Your robots.txt lists User-agent: GPTBot - Allow: / . The page loads fine in a browser. The "AI crawler" checkers say you're configured correctly. But…
Making Dynamic MDX Blogs Work with OpenNext on Cloudflare Workers
I ran into a small but annoying problem while deploying a Next.js MDX blog to Cloudflare Workers with OpenNext. The blog worked locally. The build pas…
Controlling Employee AI Usage on Managed Devices: Browser Controls, Cloudflare AI Gateway, and AWS Bedrock
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SeekYou: How I Built a Unified Host Intelligence Tool That Runs Free on Cloudflare Workers
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I Was Wrong About AI. Here Is the Moment That Changed It.
The debugging tool flagged a staggering 150 issues in my code almost instantly. I was astonished by how many mistakes I had made and how far I still h…
Blazingly Fast Ecommerce Stack for Less Than a Coffee a Month — No Marketplace, No Platform Cut
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Cloudflare HTML Cache Stuck at 1.1%: Recovery with Nginx map
Cloudflare dashboard was showing a 1.1% cache rate I picked up the habit this week of checking the performance dashboard regularly. I opened the stats…
What breaks when you ship Next.js on Cloudflare Workers
I've been building Finterm, a financial terminal that runs entirely in a browser tab, on Cloudflare Workers via @opennextjs/cloudflare . The promise i…
How to Expose Your Docker App Securely with Cloudflare Tunnel and a Custom Domain
Every time you forward a port on your router, you crack open a door to the internet. Anyone scanning your IP can knock on it, and some will. There is …
Two Gates Are Closing on AI Web Scraping
Google narrowed developer access to its web-search tools in January, while Cloudflare documented broader controls for blocking or challenging AI crawl…
Production MTProto user-бот на FastAPI + Telethon: WARP для обхода DPI и 5 граблей с Telegram
В большинстве туториалов по Telegram-ботам всё начинается с одного куска кода: получили токен у @BotFather, поставили python-telegram-bot …