27 September 2026
Automating website deployment with AI: I tell Claude which site to add or update and what to change, and everything after that is automatic, except my review of the pull request. Claude gets no Cloudflare credentials; it prepares one PR with config, custom domain and images, and GitHub Actions and Cloudflare Workers Builds deploy it after the merge.
26 September 2026
My blog's API is an Azure Container App that scales to zero, with a 30 second cold start. How three layers of caching keep readers from ever waiting on it: a stale-while-revalidate cache in a Cloudflare Worker, a durable KV fallback for Cloudflare's per-colo cache, and Cosmos DB Change Feed pushes so reads stop waking the container at all. With real monthly costs, and the trade-offs I accepted instead of solving.
17 September 2026
My blog counter went through three implementations in a week: fetching the whole article list to count it, a dedicated count endpoint that still cold-started the backend, and a Cosmos DB Change Feed keeping a Cloudflare KV value current so the read never touches origin. Plus a debugging story about one secret with three different names.
10 September 2026
How I added a moderated comment system to this blog: Cosmos DB's own Change Feed as the queue, an Azure Function scoring comments via Cloudflare Workers AI, least-privilege RBAC kept out of the CI pipeline on purpose, several real bugs found the hard way in production, and a mid-flight model upgrade after the small LLM proved unreliable.