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Notes from the field. Fixes, patterns, and lessons from shipping products.

Web Push from Cloudflare Workers, Tested in Chrome and Edge
cloudflare 12 min

Web Push from Cloudflare Workers, Tested in Chrome and Edge

Web Push from Cloudflare Workers with Web Crypto only: VAPID, aes128gcm, 404/410 cleanup, and real FCM and WNS responses from Chrome and Edge.

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Cloudflare Workers AI Free Tier: What 10,000 Neurons Buy
cloudflare 11 min

Cloudflare Workers AI Free Tier: What 10,000 Neurons Buy

Cloudflare Workers AI free tier, measured: what 10,000 neurons a day buy per model and prompt size, read from the cf-ai-neurons header.

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Prompt Injection-Safe AI Image Generation with Templates
AI automation 12 min

Prompt Injection-Safe AI Image Generation with Templates

Stop prompt injection in AI image generation: a Cloudflare Worker builds the prompt from allowlisted fields. Tested on Workers AI FLUX.1 schnell.

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Anthropic Scion vs Git: Why It Is Actually About Scale
AI agents 6 min

Anthropic Scion vs Git: Why It Is Actually About Scale

Anthropic Scion vs git is about scale, not slow git. On 102,006 files, a sparse partial clone cut stock git setup from 26.6 s to 2.8 s.

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Cloudflare AI Gateway for Claude and OpenAI: Cache, Limit, Fall Back
AI automation 13 min

Cloudflare AI Gateway for Claude and OpenAI: Cache, Limit, Fall Back

Cloudflare AI Gateway for Claude and OpenAI: turn on caching, cap requests and add a model fallback, with tested headers, a Worker and a real 429.

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Running Claude Code as an Always-On Agent on Windows
AI automation 13 min

Running Claude Code as an Always-On Agent on Windows

Run Claude Code unattended on Windows: claude -p jobs, a PowerShell supervisor, Task Scheduler at logon, and every failure I hit while testing it.

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