How Cloudflare proxies CNAME records

Everybody probably understands how Cloudflare proxies A/AAAA records, but how it proxies CNAME records is also pretty interesting. Let’s dive into how that happens and why it can often break other products that need you to set CNAME records.

Switching my email to Purelymail

I recently moved from forwarding my email through Google to hosting it through Purelymail.com. Here are some thoughts about the process and the motivation behind it

Dagger the easy way - Part 2

Let’s extend the “scope” of these tutorials :)

Sunsetting Viscerion

The Viscerion experiment that started more than a year ago is now coming to an end. Here’s what’s happening.

Creating a continuously deploying static statuspage with GitHub

GitHub Actions paired with GitHub Pages provides an excellent CD platform for a status page. Here’s how I used it to create mine.

Adding social metadata to your Hugo sites

Optimize social media exposure with the right metadata for your site

Dagger the easy way - Part 1

Dagger is universally intimidating to beginners and I want to change it.

Integrating comments in Hugo sites with commento

Adding additional comment backends to Hugo is actually rather simple!

My Dagger Story

Dagger is not the easiest tool to get on board with but it’s almost worth the effort. Here’s the story of my journey to not hating Dagger.

Server-side analytics with Goaccess

Analytics platforms are often overwhelming and a privacy nightmare – here’s how to bring analytics to the backend with very simple tooling