Hello Cloudflare
Setting up a blog is one of those deceptively simple tasks.
In theory:
Buy domain → write thoughts → publish → done.
In reality:
Buy domain → navigate UI labyrinth → accidentally create Workers → wonder why Hugo is deploying like a serverless function → existential crisis → repeat.
Cloudflare, to its credit, is extremely powerful.
Cloudflare, to my confusion, is also extremely enthusiastic about asking:
“Are you sure you don’t want to deploy a Worker?”
No, Cloudflare.
I just want to publish words.
Not edge compute.
Not wrangler deploys.
Not compatibility flags.
Just text.
Somewhere between “Create Application”, “Workers & Pages”, and “Get Started”, I experienced what can only be described as Infrastructure-Induced Philosophy.
Questions naturally emerged:
- What is a “Page”?
- What is a “Worker”?
- What is the boundary between them?
- What is the boundary between patience and madness?
Eventually, Hugo built happily in 55 milliseconds — a tiny island of determinism in a sea of configuration screens.
This blog now exists largely as proof that:
- Persistence beats complexity
- UIs are harder than distributed systems
- Even simple things are systems
Welcome to panditha.com.
No optimisation.
No niche pressure.
Just thoughts.