Victoria Drake
Digital resilience: redundancy for websites and communicationsHow you can make your digital life more resilient when using services you don't own.
privacy
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5 min read
Victoria Drake
Add search to Hugo static sites with LunrMake your static site searchable with a client-side search index.
websites
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7 min read
Victoria Drake
Make your own independent websiteHow to make 2021 the year of the independent web.
websites
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3 min read
Victoria Drake
Responsive pages and color themes with minimal CSSBuilding a responsive website with color themes? Start at the root.
websites
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4 min read
Victoria Drake
Build your own serverless subscriber list with Go and AWSHow to build your own newsletter list with DynamoDB and SES email sign up confirmations.
api
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7 min read
Victoria Drake
Hugo vs Jekyll: an epic battle of static site generator themesA comparison of nuances of creating themes for the top two static site generators.
websites
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13 min read
Victoria Drake
Publishing GitHub event data with GitHub Actions and PagesA guide to overcoming the GitHub event data horizon with a little command-line magic.
data
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8 min read
Victoria Drake
A lightweight, tool-agnostic CI/CD flow with GitHub ActionsHow to take advantage of a simple GitHub Actions workflow without sacrificing agnostic tooling.
ci/cd
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5 min read
Victoria Drake
A portable Makefile for continuous delivery with Hugo and GitHub PagesMy Makefile for building this site, optimizing images, and running my CI/CD GitHub Actions flow.
ci/cd
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5 min read
Victoria Drake
Migrating to the cloud but without screwing it up, or how to move houseA practical guide to moving to cloud services with minimal downtime, using AWS examples.
aws
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11 min read
Victoria Drake
How users and applications stay safe on the Internet: it's proxy servers all the way downAn overview of how proxy servers form the basis of online anonymity, and how their use in various forms helps both users and web applications.
cybersecurity
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9 min read
Victoria Drake
Hackers are Googling your plain text passwords: preventing sensitive data exposureWhy sensitive data controls need to be established long before you think you need them, as demonstrated by Google dorking.
cybersecurity
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8 min read
Victoria Drake
SQL injection and XSS: what white hat hackers know about trusting user inputA primer on SQL injection and cross site scripting, and how to handle user input in software development.
cybersecurity
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11 min read
Victoria Drake
A quick guide to changing your GitHub usernameSome additional steps to consider after making a change to your username on GitHub.
websites
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2 min read
Victoria Drake
Moving to a new domain without breaking old links with AWS & DisqusI moved my site's blog to its own domain without breaking old links or losing comments. Here's how.
aws
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3 min read
Victoria Drake
Hosting your static site with AWS S3, Route 53, and CloudFrontA guide to using Amazon Web Services to serve your site with HTTPS. For (almost) free.
aws
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7 min read
Victoria Drake
How I ditched WordPress and set up my custom domain HTTPS site for (almost) freeA guide (for the minimally tech-savvy) to setting up a website with HTTPS using Hugo, Cloudflare and GitHub Pages.
websites
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5 min read