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Someone built a tool that generates fake Cloudflare error pages so you can blame them when your code inevitably breaks. Because nothing says "professional developer" quite like gaslighting your users into thinking a billion-dollar CDN is responsible for your spaghetti code crashing.

The tool literally mimics those iconic Cloudflare 5xx error pages—complete with the little cloud diagram showing where things went wrong. Now you can replace your default error pages with these beauties and watch users sympathetically nod while thinking "ah yes, Cloudflare strikes again" instead of "this website is garbage."

It's the digital equivalent of pointing at someone else when you fart. Genius? Absolutely. Ethical? Well, let's just say your database queries timing out because you forgot to add indexes is now officially a "Cloudflare issue."

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