Articles
Insights & Perspectives from the Oddbit Team
Practical thoughts on software development, design, and building products that last.
September 21, 2026
Cloudflare's Block AI bots rule can silently break your own MCP server
MCP server behind Cloudflare Access connects but lists no tools. OAuth passes, the Worker logs nothing. Cloudflare's Block AI bots rule may be blocking it.
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August 26, 2026
Most Internal Tools Die in Month Two
Internal tools rarely die from neglect. They die from arithmetic: the tedious way was cheaper all along. Here is the calculation we run before building.
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August 24, 2026
Two Weeks to Two Days
Our Flutter plugin for Meta app events went from 20,000 to 50,000 weekly downloads. No campaign, no new feature: we cut issue resolution to two days.
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May 7, 2026
Running a Cloudflare Workers App in Production for Zero Ongoing Cost
Three auth systems, one Worker. Free-tier deploys. The production side of running Shrtnr on Cloudflare: what it actually takes and what it costs.
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April 27, 2026
How Long Does It Take You to Answer "How Much Cash Do We Have?"
Tuesday morning, fifteen minutes before a call. We needed total cash across all accounts in IDR. The answer took 25 minutes and three banking portals.
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April 20, 2026
How We Cut Redirect Latency 10x by Putting KV in Front of D1
We argued D1 over KV. Then added KV back as a write-through cache in front of D1. Redirect latency fell 10x. The pattern, the tradeoffs, and why.
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April 16, 2026
How We Built a Production App on Cloudflare Workers
Shrtnr runs on Cloudflare Workers across 300+ global locations. Why we chose D1 over KV, Hono over Express, and what edge-first architecture actually looks like.
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April 6, 2026
We Built a URL Shortener. And this is Why.
We built Shrtnr, our open-source URL shortener, because nothing out there had native AI integration. Zero cost, self-hosted, production-ready.
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March 26, 2026
Most Teams Are Still Pretending to Build With AI
Gartner puts agentic AI adoption at 11%. Everyone else has demos. After a year shipping AI into real products, here is what separates the two.
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