<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Digital Drift — Silver Pepper Labs</title><description>Field notes from Silver Pepper Labs — debugging, decisions, and the occasional dead end, written down while they are still exact.</description><link>https://silverpepperlabs.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Verify the token before you touch the counter</title><link>https://silverpepperlabs.com/blog/turnstile-before-the-counter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://silverpepperlabs.com/blog/turnstile-before-the-counter/</guid><description>A rate limiter that runs before CAPTCHA verification lets anyone lock a stranger out of your contact form. The fix is an ordering change, not a new dependency.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Engineering</category><category>Cloudflare</category><category>Turnstile</category><category>Rate limiting</category><category>Pages Functions</category></item></channel></rss>