Jamie Lawrence

How to secure your Cloudflare install (or other WAF)

If you’re even tangentially responsible for running a server on the Internet, you’ll probably have heard the advice to put that server behind Cloudflare (or another web application firewall—other vendors exist like Fastly or Bunny). You’ll almost definitely have heard that advice in the last week 😅

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The Point

How I'm reconciling my enthusiasm for AI-generated code and my revulsion at AI-generated text.

You can just build it

You can just build things now. Forget about all the complexities of the old software and just make things for yourself.

What I can change

My swimmer/stoic reaction to the emergence of AI: Stop screaming into the storm and start learning how to swim in it.

Podia at scale

A description of some of the scaling challenges at Podia. It's mostly about managing complexity rather than the traditional technical challenges you'd normally associate with Rails.