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PHP2Shell: Is Your Homelab Running PHP?

PHP2Shell: Is Your Homelab Running PHP?

PHP2Shell is two unauthenticated PHP RCE flaws. Find every PHP container in your homelab, patch to the fixed release, and keep Cloudflare's WAF as a seatbelt.

Clef vs Jev: Cloudflare's 4x Tie

Clef vs Jev: Cloudflare's 4x Tie

Cloudflare's Clef decision model tied Jev on accuracy in a private benchmark, abstained on junk better, and cost 4.2x more per decision. Real numbers inside.

Garrul: 53 Releases Later

Garrul: 53 Releases Later

Garrul's 2026-05-25 roadmap promised moderation tools, a faster widget, and admin polish. 89 days and 53 releases later, here is the honest scorecard.

Garrul: The Audit Found My Rate Limiter

Garrul: The Audit Found My Rate Limiter

A security audit of Garrul, my Cloudflare Workers comment system, found 2 critical bugs. Both had the same root cause as one I had already fixed in June.

Bots Ate 90% of My Worker Quota

Bots Ate 90% of My Worker Quota

A WordPress login bot burned 90% of my Cloudflare Workers free tier in two hours attacking a site that has never run PHP. Here's what actually stopped it.

Durable Objects: Stateful Serverless

Durable Objects: Stateful Serverless

Cloudflare Durable Objects solve the one thing serverless can't: coordination. Storage API, WebSocket hibernation, gotchas, and a working rate limiter build.

Where Should Your Coding Agent Run?

Where Should Your Coding Agent Run?

Claude Code and other AI coding agents need somewhere to run. Compare laptop, Docker, throwaway VMs, and Cloudflare Workers on blast radius, cost, and setup.

Why I Built Garrul

Why I Built Garrul

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I looked at a lot of self-hosted comment systems. None of the ones I wanted ran on Cloudflare Workers. So I wrote one. Here's the story and the deploy.

Beyond Akismet: Spam Protection for 2026

Beyond Akismet: Spam Protection for 2026

Akismet's licensing terms are increasingly hostile to small sites. Here are 11 spam-protection options, hosted APIs, CAPTCHA widgets, and DIY honeypots, that actually work in 2026.

Cloudflare Tunnels: Beyond Port Forwarding

Cloudflare Tunnels: Beyond Port Forwarding

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Real cloudflared config: many services on one tunnel, Access policies, origin TLS, what quick tunnels are for, and what Cloudflare can see in your traffic.