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Level UI • 1 day • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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Muzilla • Oct 23 • in Articles • 6 min read
Why I Protect Only Some Homelab Services With a WAF
A public hostname changes what a homelab service is. A notes app, a media index, or an admin panel that answers from outside the house is no longer a LAN convenience. It is a web application on the internet, and it can be probed for the same injectio...
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Lia • Oct 23 • in Articles • 7 min read
How to Choose a WAF for a Homelab Before You Publish Anything
A homelab rarely fails in one dramatic way. It fails when a useful web app is reachable, a password form is guessable, and nobody has decided which requests are allowed to touch the origin. A WAF can help, but only if you treat it as a reverse proxy ...
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Muqeet • Oct 17 • in Articles • 7 min read
Open Source vs. Proprietary: Why We Built Parts of AnimeArray with Open-Source Tools
There's a question we get every time someone finds the site for the first time. It usually arrives about ten seconds after they realise AnimeArray is free: "So who's paying for all this? What's the catch?" It's a fair question, and for a while I di...
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Muzilla • Oct 16 • in Articles • 1 min read
Reverse Proxy or Transparent WAF? A Checklist for Web Teams
Reverse Proxy or Transparent WAF? A Checklist for Web Teams Ask five questions before deployment: Can the origin be restricted? Who terminates TLS? Where are logs collected? How will bypasses be detected? What is the rollback path? A reverse-proxy...
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Muzilla • Oct 16 • in Articles • 1 min read
Reverse Proxy or Transparent WAF? A Checklist for Web Teams
Reverse Proxy or Transparent WAF? A Checklist for Web Teams Ask five questions before deployment: Can the origin be restricted? Who terminates TLS? Where are logs collected? How will bypasses be detected? What is the rollback path? A reverse-proxy...
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Lia • Oct 16 • in Articles • 1 min read
Reverse Proxy WAF vs Transparent Bridge: A Deployment Decision
Reverse Proxy WAF vs Transparent Bridge: A Deployment Decision The main difference is how clearly the WAF participates in the application traffic path. A reverse proxy is an explicit HTTP gateway. A transparent bridge is designed to minimize visibl...
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Muzilla • Oct 12 • in Articles • 2 min read
SafeLine’s 700K Install Sale Is Live: Save up to 35% on Pro
SafeLine’s 700K Install Sale Is Live: Save up to 35% on Pro SafeLine has passed 700,000 installs. To celebrate, SafeLine Pro is up to 35% off through November 30, 2026. Image suggestion: SafeLine 700K milestone campaign banner SafeLine is a self-...
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Tom Smithverified • 1 day • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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Lia • Oct 12 • in Articles • 2 min read
SafeLine’s 700K Install Sale Is Live: Save up to 35% on Pro
SafeLine has passed 700,000 installs. To celebrate, SafeLine Pro is up to 35% off through November 30, 2026. !https://coderlegion.com/?qa=blob&qablobid=4231558487066993236 SafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall WAF. It helps detect commo...
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Muzilla • Oct 12 • in Articles • 1 min read
Cloud WAF or Self-Hosted WAF? Four Questions for Teams
Cloud WAF or Self-Hosted WAF? Four Questions for Teams A short checklist can make the choice concrete. Where must traffic be processed? Who owns the WAF? How will you test policy changes? What is the recovery plan if the enforcement point fails? T...
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Lia • Oct 12 • in Articles • 2 min read
Cloud WAF vs Self-Hosted WAF: A Deployment Decision Guide
Cloud WAF vs Self-Hosted WAF: A Deployment Decision Guide The cloud versus self-hosted decision is an operations decision as much as a feature comparison. Ask who owns the traffic path, who maintains the enforcement point, and who responds when pro...
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Lia • Oct 10 • in Articles • 2 min read
SafeLine WAF vs Imperva: Self-Hosted WAF vs Enterprise Cloud Protection
SafeLine WAF vs Imperva: Self-Hosted WAF vs Enterprise Cloud Protection When people compare SafeLine to Imperva, they're usually comparing two very different things: a lightweight self-hosted WAF and a full enterprise cloud security stack. Here's h...
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Lia • Oct 10 • in Articles • 2 min read
What Is a WAF and How Does It Work? A Plain-English Guide
What Is a WAF and How Does It Work? A Plain-English Guide If you run a website, you've probably been told to "put a WAF in front of it." Here's what that actually means — no jargon. What "WAF" stands for A Web Application Firewall protects your a...
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Muzilla • Oct 9 • in Articles • 2 min read
SafeLine or CrowdSec? A Decision Guide for Your Stack
SafeLine or CrowdSec? A Decision Guide for Your Stack People often ask "which one should I install?" as if SafeLine and CrowdSec are interchangeable. They're not — they protect different layers, so the real question is which layer is exposed first....
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Muzilla • Oct 9 • in Articles • 3 min read
From SSH Brute Force to SQL Injection: How SafeLine and Fail2ban Split the Work
From SSH Brute Force to SQL Injection: How SafeLine and Fail2ban Split the Work Most server compromises start with one of two things: someone guessing a password, or someone slipping a malicious payload into a web request. Those two attacks live on...
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Lia • Oct 9 • in Articles • 3 min read
SafeLine WAF vs Fail2ban: App-Layer vs Host-Level Defense
SafeLine WAF vs Fail2ban: App-Layer vs Host-Level Defense Fail2ban is one of the first tools people reach for when a server goes live — and for good reason. But it solves a different problem than a WAF. If you're wondering whether SafeLine replaces...
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Lia • Oct 9 • in Articles • 3 min read
SafeLine WAF vs CrowdSec: WAF vs Behavior-Based Protection
SafeLine WAF vs CrowdSec: WAF vs Behavior-Based Protection If you're hardening a server, you'll run into both SafeLine and CrowdSec — and it's easy to assume they're rivals. They're not, really. They protect different layers, and most teams that ta...
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Muzilla • Oct 8 • in Articles • 1 min read
SafeLine Reaches 700K Installs. A Pro Sale Is Coming.
!https://coderlegion.com/?qa=blob&qablobid=13321174692653627156 SafeLine Reaches 700K Installs. A Pro Sale Is Coming. Thanks for being part of the SafeLine community. To celebrate 700,000+ installs, a limited-time SafeLine Pro sale starts October 1...
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Lia • Oct 8 • in Articles • 1 min read
SafeLine Reaches 700K Installs. A Pro Sale Is Coming.
!https://coderlegion.com/?qa=blob&qablobid=16454437680789420197 SafeLine Reaches 700K Installs. A Pro Sale Is Coming. Thanks for being part of the SafeLine community. To celebrate 700,000+ installs, a limited-time SafeLine Pro sale starts October 1...
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Lia • Oct 7 • in Articles • 2 min read
How to Secure a Website Without Cloudflare
How to Secure a Website Without Cloudflare Cloudflare is the default answer to "how do I secure my site," but it isn't the only one — and it isn't always the right fit. If you'd rather keep control of your infrastructure, avoid a third-party sittin...
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Lia • Sep 29 • in Articles • 3 min read
Self-Hosted WAF with a Low False Positive Rate: Why It Matters
Self-Hosted WAF with a Low False Positive Rate: Why It Matters When you shop for a WAF, the headline number everyone shows is detection rate — how much attack traffic it catches. That's important, but it's only half the story. The other half is the...
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