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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

WebMCP Has 20× the Interest and Zero Deployments

WebMCP adoption is zero across 111,076 scanned domains while search interest holds near 20 times its January level. Here is what to ship now, and what to watch.

Meta AnalysisMCPWeb DevAPI DesignTrend CommentaryJavaScript1 min read · Jul 25, 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

How to Block AI Crawlers From Destroying Your Site

AI crawlers from OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic are hammering sites with millions of requests per month. robots.txt alone does not stop them. Here are the 4 layers that actually work.

GuidesSecurityDevOpsWeb DevNginxCloudflare1 min read · Apr 11, 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

Stop Treating localStorage Like a Database (It Will Bite You in Production)

localStorage has a 5-10MB limit, throws QuotaExceededError silently, and vanishes in Safari private browsing. Here are the five ways it breaks in production and what to use instead.

TutorialsJavaScriptWeb DevDebuggingPerformance1 min read · Apr 11, 2026

Node.js Auth in 2026: Passport.js Is Dead, Here's What Replaced It

The Node.js authentication landscape in 2026 splits into three camps: managed services like Clerk, self-hosted libraries like Better Auth, and framework-native solutions like Auth.js. A fair comparison of when to pick each.

GuidesNode.jsAuthTypeScriptComparisonWeb Dev1 min read · Apr 11, 2026

TypeScript Types Have Gone Too Far (And What to Do About It)

TypeScript type complexity has become a status symbol. When the type definition is longer than the function it describes, something went wrong. Here is what actually works.

OpinionTypeScriptDeveloper ToolsProductivityWeb Dev1 min read · Apr 11, 2026

Next.js 16 Cache Components: The Feature Nobody Understands Yet

Next.js 16 cache components replace unstable_cache with the use cache directive, cacheLife, and cacheTag. A clear walkthrough of what changed, why it matters, and how to migrate.

TutorialsNext.jsReactTypeScriptCachingPerformanceWeb Dev1 min read · Apr 10, 2026