Archives
All the articles I've archived.
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Three Ways to See What Your Workers Are Doing: Log Explorer, Workers Observability, and Local Explorer
Cloudflare now has three distinct tools for understanding what your Workers are doing — from local development to enterprise forensics. I enabled all three on saltwaterbrc.com and broke down when to use which.
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Agents Week 2026: What We Added to SaltWaterBRC
Cloudflare launched Agents Week with 6 major announcements. We integrated three of them into saltwaterbrc.com in a single day: Browser Run, Voice Agents, and Workflows V2. Here's what we built, how it works, and what it means for building AI agents on the edge.
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From Chatbot to Autonomous Agent: Building V3 on Cloudflare
I rebuilt my AI chatbot as an autonomous agent that plans, chains tools, generates images, searches the web, queries databases, and creates files — all running on 9 Cloudflare products in a single Worker.
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Build What You Sell: 23 Cloudflare Products on One Site
I'm a Cloudflare Account Executive who built saltwaterbrc.com from scratch using 23 Cloudflare products — from DNS registration to AI agents to Layer 4 TCP proxies. Here's the full journey, what each product does, and how to demo it live.
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Cloudflare Spectrum: Protecting Non-HTTP Traffic at the Edge
I set up a DigitalOcean VPS, configured Cloudflare Spectrum, and locked down SSH access to prove how Layer 4 protection works for non-HTTP traffic. Here's the full walkthrough — from VPS creation to origin IP masking.
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Securing APIs with Cloudflare: API Shield, Schema Validation, and Layered Defense
I set up API Shield on my own site, uploaded an OpenAPI schema, and fired good and bad requests to test it. Here's the full walkthrough — from what an API actually is to why layered security matters.
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Building an AI Agent on Cloudflare: From RAG to Multi-Turn Conversations
I rebuilt my AI assistant from a stateless Q&A box into a multi-turn agent with tool calling, persistent memory, and real-time streaming. Here's what changed and why it matters for customer conversations.
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OpenCode, Windsurf, and Cloudflare Skills: AI-Powered Development on the Edge
I connected OpenCode and Windsurf Cascade to Cloudflare's developer platform using AI Skills and MCP Servers. A Worker deployed in minutes, a D1 guestbook built from chat, and full account management through AI.
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Adding Zero Trust to a Developer Platform Site
I built a full Cloudflare Zero Trust stack on a personal blog — Access, Gateway, Tunnel, WARP, Browser Isolation, CASB, and DLP. Seven products, one afternoon, zero hardware.
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The Lightbulb Moment: AI Video on Cloudflare Stream
I created an AI-generated video about the moment everything clicked — and delivered it using Cloudflare Stream. No transcoding pipeline, no video CDN, no infrastructure. Upload a video, get a player.
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Migrating to Astro — Cloudflare's Own Framework
Rebuilding the site on Astro — the framework Cloudflare acquired. Markdown-based blog posts, faster builds, and deploying on the same framework used by Porsche, IKEA, and OpenAI.
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Code Playground: Running Containers at the Edge with Sandbox SDK
I built an interactive playground where visitors can run shell, Python, and JavaScript in isolated Linux containers at the edge.
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Ask This Blog: Adding AI to the Edge with Workers AI, Vectorize, and AI Gateway
I built a feature where visitors can ask questions and get AI-generated answers from blog content. Three Cloudflare products, zero external APIs, all running at the edge.
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Three Builds, One Domain: Workers, Durable Objects, and R2
I deployed all three core developer platform products on saltwaterbrc.com in a single day. Here's what I built, what broke, and what I can now explain to any customer.
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The Roadmap: Five Builds That Map to Real Customer Use Cases
Workers, Durable Objects, R2, Workers AI, and Sandbox SDK. Each build maps directly to a use case I'm pitching in the field right now.
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Back to the Basics: Why I'm Building on the Platform I Sell
After nearly a decade at Cloudflare, I'm doing something I should have done a long time ago — building on the platform myself.