#cloudflare

Using Cloudflare's R2 and Workers to set up a Docker registry in a few minutes to use with Kamal. This approach has the advantage of being low maintenance and within a free quota.

Seeing features in the Cloudflare dashboard used to be great. You pressed a button, and your website was now slightly better. Sadly, this isn't the case with Cloudflare Fonts, and I would recommend staying away for now.

It is still possible to build interactive features on the web without overengineering them. At least, that’s what I wanted to prove to myself when adding a commenting system to this blog.

Lately, we’ve been told HTTPS is finally faster than HTTP. Mostly because of HTTP/2’s multiplexing. In this post, I want to highlight an issue we rarely think about with HTTPS: the slowdown it implies for users far away from your servers. Since we’re usually on the same continent as our servers, we never get to think about this.

They are cases when you need to disable some endpoints of a website as fast as possible. For example, in the case were an issue on an endpoint is causing all of your website to go down. Or because you need to limit the traffic load quickly by sacrificing parts of the API, instead of losing everything.