The Hidden Machine Inside Modern Tooling
A Geekist Exploration of What Powers the Tools That Power Us Ever wondered how modern tooling just works™? In this post, we’ll explore the engine rooms behind the frameworks we lean on every day, and hopefully you’ll walk away with a clearer sense of the machinery hidden beneath the hood. Anyway… where were we? Ah…
Part-time Agile Will Work Against You
Clean tickets, costly stand-ups, slow velocity. Part-time Agile drains teams and delivery. Discover what skipping rituals really costs.
The Invisible CDN We Built for Display Pics
We built a dynamic display picture system in 2012 using X-Accel-Redirect and NGINX, serving fresh content with static-like speed, without a full CDN stack.
The Art of Proxying: Mastering Traffic Like a Pro
A deep dive into advanced Nginx reverse proxy setups, covering WebSockets, gRPC, Layer 7 load balancing, and real-world traffic management strategies.
Nginx Wildcard SSL and Beyond
A breakdown of SSL/TLS, Let’s Encrypt, and Mutual SSL with Nginx, covering wildcard certs, Cloudflare integration, and advanced security configurations.
Why Your Web Server Structure is Holding You Back (And How to Fix It)
A practical look at organizing web server folders, from `/srv` structures to centralizing logs and configs designed for scalability and security.
Smarter Defaults for Subdomains and SSL
Tame Nginx with smarter defaults! Learn how to simplify subdomains, SSL, and streamline your configs for secure, scalable setups
In the Beginning… We Shared (whether we liked it or not!)
The history of hosting, from shared servers with shady neighbours to modern setups. A humour-filled deep dive into what went wrong and what works today.
It’s a Security Thing.
A high-stakes demo, MongoDB, and a critical mistake? Discover how I reset an entire database minutes before a VIP arrive and what happened after…
Cheaper (free?) Web Hosting in Singapore
Affordable web hosting in Singapore: AWS Free Tier, DigitalOcean ($5/month), and Cloudflare for security & speed. Get more for less!
