All of balthisar.com is available via HTTPS, finally. Although the website is entirely static (built with Middleman), and there are no forms that can be hacked, the switch to HTTPS does offer a couple of safety advantages to you, the user:
- Browsers…
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On Cool URLs and Decaying Links
Another challenge when migrating balthisar.com from shared hosting to S3/CloudFront was deciding how to transition from the use of so-called “cool URIs” to the traditional URIs supported by Amazon Web Services.
Background
After the oh, crap moment…
The CloudFront index.xml Challenge
balthisar.com is now served via CloudFront with an S3
backend. The transition has been fairly simply but not without its caveats, including handling
the RSS .xml feeds (the topic of this article), dealing with a
circular reference brain fart,
and deciding…
Avoid CloudFront Circular References
When migrating to CloudFront don’t introduce circular references. This should be obvious, but sometimes in the heat of battle, details get overlooked and everything comes crashing to the ground.
tl;dr: If CloudFront is going to front your www.example…