Faster Than You Think: Part 3
Instant Dashboard
The more technical readers will have noticed this site runs at Cloudflare. For infrastructure at scale — DNS, caching, edge routing — they’re exceptional.
Their sprawling dashboards, however, are not where I wanted to spend my time. It’s like having a 747 flight deck when I need a 1990s Honda Civic dashboard.
This site doesn’t use cookies — by design — but Liz and I were curious what pages people were hitting and how traffic was flowing. Cloudflare provides analytics, of course. But accessing them means living inside their overwrought dashboards.
Instead, I asked Claude to generate a lightweight analytics view directly from our HTTP logs. A simple /analytics endpoint. Basic stats. Clean display. Secured behind Cloudflare’s zero-trust authentication.
No wireframes. No middleware. No integration roadmap. No sprint planning. It’s just done.
AI operated at the human layer — on my side of the glass — and built all the dashboard I needed in an hour.
That’s the velocity.
Be the asteroid.
State of the art of easy.