Two rules taken from the name carry the whole design: weekly issues and the dash as the only motif. Posts get data sheets as covers instead of stock photos, and EmDash on Cloudflare does the rest.
Our public pages sit in Cloudflare's edge cache for five minutes, yet a published fix shows up right away, because EmDash purges by cache tag when you publish, and editors keep their Edit button. The five minutes are just the safety net for a purge that doesn't happen. How much faster the pages get, I'll measure after launch.
Let Wrangler create D1 and R2 on your first deploy and Cloudflare picks where they live, for good. If the database ends up in North America, every uncached page pays about 140 ms per query from Europe. Create both yourself first, with --location weur. If you're past that point, read replication helps with reads, but only a move fixes it.