Engineering

You built a comments system. Users are submitting feedback. But you only find out when you remember to check the D1 console. By then, someone has been waiting days for a response. This post covers three approaches to getting notified when form submissions arrive: instant emails, daily digests, and webhook-based notifications. Each has trade-offs in complexity, cost, and flexibility. The Problem The comments system from my previous post stores submissions in Cloudflare D1. Moderation happens manually via SQL queries in the D1 console. This works, but it requires actively checking for new submissions. ...

Static sites are fast, secure, and simple to deploy. But they lack one thing out of the box: interactivity. Comments, likes, and other dynamic features traditionally require a backend. This tutorial walks through how I built a comments and likes system for this site using Cloudflare’s serverless stack: D1 (SQLite database), Pages Functions (serverless API), and Turnstile (spam protection). No external services. No third-party tracking. Everything runs on Cloudflare’s edge network. ...

Exploring the resurgence of static websites and why they might be the right choice for your next project.

How a frustrating rebuild cycle turned into a ‘build once, deploy many’ model by challenging the status quo on frontend configuration.

A practical breakdown of three database design approaches for implementing Maker-Checker workflows in regulated systems.

Container migration looks deceptively simple. The real challenge isn’t running docker run - it’s doing it the right way for enterprise-grade results.

How a forced Kubernetes migration exposed our deployment chaos and led us to embrace GitOps with ArgoCD as our single source of truth.

A security audit exposed access control gaps in our SaaS GitLab. Here’s how we migrated to self-hosted GitLab, integrated with our corporate IDAM, and took control of our DevOps destiny.