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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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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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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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Caching for Consistency: A Balanced Static Site Strategy
Implementing a tiered caching strategy that balances high-performance delivery for assets with immediate consistency for content updates.
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Modern AWS Authentication: Humans vs Automation
How to simplify your AWS security model by clearly separating human access from automated deployment.
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Security Boundaries in Small Systems
Why security is about explicit intent rather than system size, and how to implement robust boundaries without enterprise complexity.
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AWS, but Deliberately
Why using cloud primitives directly provides a better foundation for ownership and security than 'magic' hosting platforms.
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Intentional Engineering in the Age of AI
Reflecting on why building a personal blog as a production-grade system matters in an era where AI makes it easy to skip the thinking process.
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