Setting up a blog is one of those deceptively simple tasks. In theory, it’s as straightforward as: buy domain, write thoughts, publish, done. In reality, the process looked more like this: buy domain, navigate a UI labyrinth, accidentally create Workers, wonder why Hugo is deploying like a serverless function, experience an existential crisis, and repeat. Cloudflare, to its credit, is extremely powerful, but also, to my confusion, 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.