Author: ghosty

  • Run NextJS in an AWS Lambda

    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…

  • Sonos meets Plex

    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…

  • What has the EU ever done for us?

    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.

  • Jack Garratt – Phase

    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.

  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    Rag’n’Bone Man

    Listen, then thank me later.

  • 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…

  • Netzwerk – Klangkarussell

    Netzwerk – Klangkarussell

    This is my current favourite album to listen to during the work day…

  • 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

  • Drupal and DNS Prefetch

    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.…

  • How we dealt with Heartbleed and Drupal

    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…