Improving Your Website Security with Mozilla Observatory and Netlify

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Mozilla Observatory will test your website and assign it a letter grade based on how well your website implements things like implementing a good Content-Security-Policy, blocking clickjacking, enforcing HTTP Strict Transport Security, and so on.

When I started, this blog was rated F. After a few changes, it's now rated …

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Use oysttyer to Tweet Blog Posts and Other Twitter Status from the Command Line CLI

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I write these blog posts for myself but I certainly don't object to other people reading them and (hopefully) finding them useful or insightful. What seems like a good way to get them out into the world is to tweet the blog title and URL. Maybe somebody will be looking …

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How to Read Blogs with RSS in 2020

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How to Read RSS in 2020 is a nice article on how to use RSS.

RSS is a great way to follow people who post longer content on their blogs. You fire up your reader of choice and it pulls in the articles without you having to visit all those …

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Welcome to Apple News+

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I've been using Gmail with the setting for "Display Images" set to off. It helps cut down on tracking and it cuts down on the visual clutter so I scan quickly.

I got free 4 months of Apple News+ for buying a new Apple Pencil and I activated it. This …

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Moving from Blogofile to Pelican

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A couple of years after I wrote about how happy I was with Blogofile, it stopped being developed. The last update on GitHub was in 2015, the owner has archived the repository, and Blogofile.com doesn't answer anymore.

I looked for forks and didn't find any active ones. So as …

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Moving from AWS S3 and Cloudfront to Netlify

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After almost 10 years of letting the blog sit, I wanted to bring it into the modern world. One of the issues was that I had last touched the blog back in 2011 when SSL connections were only for transactions. The blog was just fine serving pages at https:// but …

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Using custom fonts on a web page, including internet explorer

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Making CSS Custom Font works with IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari has a clear explanation of how to use custom fonts on your site.

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Namebench for the win! Bad DNS makes my mac slow

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Really bad performance on my MacBook has been driving me up the wall the past few days. Closing all un-needed programs didn't help. I ran several Mac utilities on my system, rebooted and so on and so forth.

Still no good.

There's 8GB of RAM in my (latest model - fall …

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Script to Update Blogofile Blog on Amazon S3

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Because Blogofile(at least the 0.7.1 version I'm using) regenerates every file and directory every time it makes it hard to update just the changed files on Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage System) can scale incredibly high

So I wrote a shell script that updates only the changed …

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What's not perfect with Blogofile

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In Switched from WordPress to Blogofile there are two good things about using Blogofile:

  • flat files are almost impossible to hack
  • Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage System) can scale incredibly high

There's some downsides:

  • blogofile build seems to copy or regenerate every single file
  • it's not totally happy being on …
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