The Outpost: The Last Room of the Systems-Talking Wing
The room about beating distance. A CDN opens a branch in every town so the answer is already next door, and it closes the systems-talking wing of Learning Maps.
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Putting a Password on a Static Site With One CloudFront Function
A static site has no server to check a password, which is fine right up until the day you need one. My staging site is the problem in miniature. It is a full mirror of production, except it also carr...
How I Gave CloudFront a Content-Security-Policy Without Blanking My Own Site
A strict Content-Security-Policy on a static site allowlists inline scripts by hash. Change one script, forget to update the hash, and every page renders blank. The incident that taught me, and the deploy guard that ends it.
I Rebuilt This Whole Site in Agent Mode
This site was rebuilt from scratch by directing an AI agent, then migrated off cPanel onto AWS S3 and CloudFront. Here is what that actually looked like, the parts that worked, and the day a deploy script quietly deleted production.