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The Path Not Found Is the Point
Scanners arrive with a shopping list: WordPress, admin panels, .env files, and login forms. A static site has none of those. That absence turns the site into a passive honeypot.
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Mechanical vs structural
Some code changes can be verified by reading the diff. Others require understanding the code. The split matters.
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Why Toronto! and Why, Toronto?
One CloudFront edge location dominated the probe traffic by a factor of six. Pulling that thread led to Azure Canada Central and a particular kind of internet scavenger.
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The Ambiguity of 2n
A homework photo turned a simple maths question into three valid answers and a late-night lesson in why notation matters.
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Knock Knock, Who's There?
A static site with no login pages, no forms, and no commercial value still attracts thousands of unsolicited requests per month. This is what that traffic contains.
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Why I Used CloudFront Functions Instead of Lambda@Edge
Why a CloudFront Function was the right choice for canonical host redirects and URL rewriting, and what would change that decision.
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Why CI took three minutes or fifteen
How a slow GitHub Actions run led to a handful of small fixes: browser caching, dropping WebKit, and understanding what --with-deps actually does.
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Self-Hosted Analytics on AWS
A privacy-preserving analytics pipeline on AWS, built to cost almost nothing.
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Accessibility as Engineering
Reflections on the shift from compliance to structural engineering and a curated reading list for building deeper accessibility literacy.
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Architecture as Memory
Codifying lessons into architectural constraints and automated tests to prevent regression.
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