The military aircraft tracker I built for an audience of one
At about half past eleven one evening this week I noticed a US Navy E-6B Mercury orbiting over the North Sea. Not “noticed” in the way of someone who happened to look up — I was...
JAMIE LORD
STAMFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE
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Solution Architect at CDS
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Stamford, Lincolnshire
Building software, for the love of it.
Architect, developer, or consultant — whatever the work calls for. My toolkit evolves; right now that's mostly Cloudflare's Developer Platform, which I'm writing a book about.
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The harness is the product, not the model
Cloudflare’s Project Glasswing write-up landed today and the Hacker News thread is mostly arguing about whether the prose was written by Mythos or by Opus. It is a fair complain...
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If AI made Cloudflare more productive, the layoffs are the wrong move
Cloudflare laid off more than 1,100 people yesterday, around 20% of the company. The announcement, titled ‘Building for the Future’, explains the cuts by noting that internal AI...
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2026
Cusp — a WordPress-class CMS that runs entirely on Cloudflare
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MilMov — military aircraft tracker built on Cloudflare
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2026
AI-powered UK employment policy compliance platform
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2026
AI-assisted cloud configuration auditing toolkit
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Architecting on Cloudflare — the book
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Where I've worked
2023 →
CDS UK
Solution Architect
· now
2021 – 2023
HeadClear
Chief Technology Officer (co-founder)
2020 – 2021
Advanced
Principal Software Engineer
2019 – 2020
Mitrefinch
Developer → Delivery Team Lead
2016 – 2019
IFS
Software Engineer → Senior
Built by hand in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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