2026-07-08 metacloudflareai
Rebuilding my site as a command center
Why I turned my portfolio into an ops-center UI: a console you can type into, a threat map fed by real Cloudflare Radar data, and a field log of talks and demos.
I rebuilt this site from scratch. The old version was a classic dark portfolio — nice, but it looked like everyone else’s. The new one is what I actually wanted: a command center.
What’s under the hood
- Astro on Cloudflare Pages — static output, zero servers to babysit.
- A console dock at the bottom of every page. Press
/and typehelp. It navigates the site, opens demos, and hides at least one easter egg. - A threat map on the overview. It is not a random animation: a Pages Function proxies the Cloudflare Radar API and the arcs are weighted by the real top layer-7 DDoS origin→target country pairs of the last 24 hours, cached at the edge every 15 minutes.
Why bother
I spend my days as a presales engineer showing security operations centers to customers. My personal site might as well feel like one — and building it end to end (frontend, edge functions, API tokens with least privilege, honest data labeling) is exactly the kind of work I like to write about.
More posts coming: agentic systems with MCP, GenAI guardrails, and lab builds on AWS.