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Why Astro, Cloudflare Workers, and Claude Code Fast Track Production

Astro Cloudflare Workers stack ships 90% less JavaScript, starts in under 5ms, and runs workerd in dev. The migration gotchas nobody covers, solved.

OpinionAstroCloudflareClaude CodeJavaScriptWeb DevPerformance1 min read · Jul 27, 2026

Web Scraping in the AI Age: What Actually Changed

Web scraping in the AI age broke twice over: LLMs killed the CSS selector, and AI crawlers exploded while referral traffic collapsed. Here is what changed.

OpinionWeb DevAI CodingSecurityAutomationPythonCloudflareTrend Commentary1 min read · May 31, 2026

Cloudflare Is the Biggest Man-in-the-Middle in History (And You're OK With It)

Cloudflare terminates TLS for roughly 20% of all web traffic. Every proxied HTTPS request is decrypted and re-encrypted on their servers. Here's what that means, why we accept it, and what the alternatives actually look like.

OpinionSecurityCloudflareEncryptionNetworkingWeb DevTrend Commentary1 min read · Apr 11, 2026