This is the last time I’m doing this, I swear. The difference this time is that I haven’t collaborated with someone else to generate a traffic spike. Knowing that, here’s the real cost per month of me doing this.
Continue readingSo if you haven’t noticed, every time you view that main title bar, the subtitle has a little extra tagline on the end of it… sometimes, sometimes it doesn’t. Well, that randomizes on every request. And here, we talk about the smallest thing I’ve made, to date: the tagline picker for that.
Continue readingSo as of yesterday, the Cloudflare plan on this site has changed from free to pro, the second of four, and the cheapest paid plain that they have. Really, there’s not that much that you will see, but there’s plenty of backend changes that I’m going to be using with this. And I’m going to break down what the actual changes are.
Continue readingSo I just (at the time of writing this on the 5th) got my Amazon AWS bill for the month of March, a whopping 31¢.
Let’s take a look at the real cost of what I’m using AWS for.
Continue readingSo if you’ve ever tried to leave a comment, on here or any other site that uses Disqus (“Discuss”) for commenting, you’ll notice that it has a little array of formatting buttons below the comment box that allow you to.. format your comment. Make things bold, underlined, or insert links. Cool, right? Yes, but if you look closely, you’ll notice that they’re inserting the appropriate HTML tag for whatever you just clicked. Which makes me wonder… how does Disqus deal with other HTML tags?
Continue readingAfter reading on Kev Quirk’s blog post about including the full text of a post instead of just an excerpt, I’ve decided to do that here. And I’ll outline the before, after, and (naturally) all the steps in-between that caused much headache (and late-night coffee consumption).
Continue readingYesterday I posted about Cloudflare’s cache, and if you didn’t notice (or read far enough down), there’s actual pie charts with data in them for visualization.
Yeah, so now I can add the Google Charts API and draw charts on any page that I like, and the best part is that it was surprisingly simple to do that.
Continue readingI’ve talked enough about Cloudflare caching that I’m not going to do introduce it again. This time though, we’re going in depth just a bit more, going over what’s cached, default cache times, and… more headers.
Continue readingModern websites and modern browsers support a wide range of security features to communicate specifically what is and is not allowed to be loaded, executed, or sent over the network. Being the person that I am, I’m going to comply with the latest guidelines and best practices as much as I can… and it’s a headache.
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