Web

I’ve used images in a number of posts on this blog since it was started in 2008. Unfortunately, I haven’t always been good at adding alt text for each of them, particularly in the early years.

For the last year I’ve been using Wercker to deploy this site each time I make a change (normally a new post) and push it to BitBucket.

Update: I’m now using BitBucket Pipelines instead.

Since moving this site to S3, I have been using a post-commit hook to deploy it with s3cmd, which looks like this:

I mentioned a few weeks ago that whilst moving my blog to S3 I hit a hard limit of 50 redirects, meaning I would break some URLs if I made the move.

I’m in the process of moving this site to Amazon S3, rather than hosting it myself on a VPS. Should save me around $10 a month, but more importantly mean I wont have to look after a server. Furthermore, I could take advantage of the new SSL support.

I wanted to perform some user load testing on the HTTP endpoint of our internal metrics collection system. After a bit of googling I decided to use Locust.

I noticed in my Nginx logs that a number of sites were serving my jQuery Placeholder Plugin JavaScript files directly from my site, as opposed to hosting it themselves. Probably an accident, but still…