4 posts tagged with "cloudflare"

I wanted games I could play one-handed on a train, and send to a friend with "beat this." So I built Tapamine. It has 102 games, and every one uses a single thumb.

Codifying scotthavird.com in Terraform​

For years this site lived in two places at once: the Docusaurus repo and a scattering of Cloudflare dashboard clicks. Pages project settings, custom domains, zone security toggles, and an email signup API that only existed in AWS — none of it was reviewable in a PR.

That drift is fine until it isn't. I hit the www redirect trap on my own domain. Preview builds failed because Node 18 was still configured in the dashboard while Docusaurus 3.9 requires Node 20. Each fix was another manual change with no audit trail.

So I codified the whole stack in iac/ and retired the GitHub Actions deploy workflow in favor of native Cloudflare Pages builds.

Your Cloudflare Pages Redirect Is Probably Backwards​

Here's a scenario that's more common than it should be: you set up a site on Cloudflare Pages, configure a redirect so that www points to your apex domain, and everything looks fine. Then six months later you check Google Search Console and your impressions are split across four different URL variants. Half your SEO equity is leaking because both www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com are being indexed as separate pages.

The culprit isn't your code. It's Cloudflare Pages silently redirecting your apex domain to www — the exact opposite of what you intended.

I ran into this on my own site and spent longer than I'd like to admit tracing it down. Here's exactly what happens and how to fix it permanently.

Havoptic: I Built a Visual Release Tracker Because I Couldn't Keep Up​

Here's a confession: I can't keep up with release notes. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, Codex CLI, Kiro – they're all shipping at breakneck speed, and every week there's a new version with features that could change how I work. But reading through changelogs? My eyes glaze over by paragraph two. I'm a visual person. I need to see what changed, not read a wall of text about it.

That frustration is why I built Havoptic.