10 hand-picked posts organized by what brought you here. Each path is a short reading list — usually 2 posts — that gives you the flavor of the site without making you wade through everything.
Once you're done, the full archive lives under Cloudflare · Networking · AI & Automation · Humanoids, or you can browse by tag.
Start with the Cloudflare WAF walkthrough — it's the most opinionated piece on the site and a fair sample of how I think about deploying things in production.
A practical, opinionated walkthrough for rolling out Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall on a real domain — start in monitor mode, layer in protections, set up alerting on spikes, and why OWASP Core Ruleset is usually a mistake.
What sets Cloudflare's Advanced WAF apart from a standard WAF, the protection it provides at Layer 7, and best practices for deploying it effectively.
The route-hijack post-mortems are the most-read posts in the Networking category. They explain why RPKI matters more clearly than any vendor whitepaper.
How a government censorship order, a leaked more-specific route, and one upstream provider that didn't filter turned into a global internet outage that took YouTube offline for nearly two hours in 2008 — and what it proved about BGP's fundamental trust problem.
How a 2018 BGP hijack redirected Amazon Route 53 traffic, harvested private keys from MyEtherWallet users, and stole $152K in Ethereum — BGP and DNS weaknesses chained.
The Claude Network Automation series walks through using AI as a hands-on partner on five different platforms. Pick the one that matches your environment.
How to use the Claude API to generate IOS-XE configurations, parse show command output, build network audit tools, and create intelligent troubleshooting assistants for Cisco IOS-XE devices.
How to use the Claude API with the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API to manage networks, generate configurations, audit security policies, troubleshoot clients, and build intelligent Meraki management tools.
The Meraki Workflows series goes from "what is this" to deploying the on-prem OVA and running CLI on IOS-XE devices. Four posts, designed to be read in order.
A complete introduction to Cisco Agentic Workflows — the no-code automation platform built into the Meraki Dashboard. What problems it solves, what makes it different from scripting, and how to get started today.
Step-by-step: how to build a no-code Cisco Workflow that connects to an IOS-XE Catalyst device, runs show or configuration commands, captures the output, and acts on it — using the SSH adapter.
Start with the 2026 ranking — it lays out the field. Then pick a vendor that interests you and read their specific post.
A clear-eyed ranking of the five most advanced humanoids in 2026 — Figure 03, Optimus Gen 3, Atlas, Digit, and NEO — and what's actually distinctive about each.
Figure's BotQ factory went from 1 humanoid/day to 1/hour in under 120 days — a 24x leap putting Figure 03 ahead of every other Western humanoid program on manufacturing scale.
