Author: ghosty
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Run NextJS in an AWS Lambda
Looking to host a new web app that was built in NextJS, we set out to find a way to host it on a Lambda rather than via a docker image (which can get rather expensive). These are the steps we took to do so. Create a static bucket First thing you will need to…
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Sonos meets Plex
For the longest time we used to use XBMC Kodi, but a year ago we moved our media management at home over to the Plex ecosystem. This allows me to store all our content on a private server and then stream to any device that I wish. Up until recently this has been various iOS…
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What has the EU ever done for us?
I like to keep this blog fairly politically indifferent, but with the upcoming EU referendum in the UK I wanted to share this with you all.
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Jack Garratt – Phase
New album released today by Jack Garratt. Give it a listen. I will be definitely (assuming he is there) going to go see him at Glastonbury.
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Rag’n’Bone Man
Listen, then thank me later.
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Debugging on Platform.sh
We are in the process of deploying a lot of sites on to the excellent Platform.sh infrastructure at the moment. As with all these things, we hit a few snags along the way. The way that we worked around this was to install the Xdebug extension and use it to step through the code. Firstly…
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Netzwerk – Klangkarussell
This is my current favourite album to listen to during the work day…
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Large scale Drupal project guide
This is a really good guide to building a large scale Drupal website. https://www.drupal.org/resource-guides/launching-government-website
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Drupal and DNS Prefetch
In a bid to help you gain performance from your web apps, a new feature introduced with HTML5 is the ability to prefetch DNS resources. Currently widely supported (Firefox 3.5+, Chrome, Safari 5+ and IE 9+), prefetching is where your browser will in the background to a DNS lookup for the addresses that you give.…
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How we dealt with Heartbleed and Drupal
I just wanted to share how we have dealt with the Heartbleed bug at work in case there is anyone else out there that runs a Drupal site that needs some help. Obviously we have patched the servers and got new certificates issued, but the job of resetting passwords is the tricky one. Now we…