Site with Brotli enabled
Earlier today I was looking for a site that had both Brotli and GZip enabled for testing and comparing. I couldn't find any, so I rebuilt NGinx with the ngx_brolti module and enabled it…
Huh. So, that is what SSL intermediate certs do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Backstory: Yesterday, I had a post on Reddit that linked to the https:// url here. While relaxing for the night and sipping on a cold frosty one, I decided to check out how the post…
(Un) Hacking a video greeting card
I recently was given a promotional item that is called a "Video Greeting Card". Pretty much, when opened it is designed to play a promotional video or an advertisement. Original name, right? It was sorta…
Putting my Christmas lights on the internet for the world to control
Every year Christmas light displays get more and more crazy. Pretty much every neighborhood in America now has that one house with an over the top display set to the song Wizards in Winter. In…
Fun with Ghost CMS and an EC2 t2.nano
I'm cheap when it comes to hosting. I don't know why, I just always have been. I currently tend to use the $5/Mo cloud servers from DigitalOcean when I do projects and so far…