A dive into serving brotli compressed assets

Addy Osmani’s talk about performance at the last FFConf had a small segment on serving brotli compressed assets, as opposed to gzip.

Local HTTPS

I’m not going to extol the virtues of encrypting your site and enabling HTTP/2. The advantages should be pretty obvious by now.

Using NPM as a Build Tool

A year or so ago, I came across this post by Keith Cirkel, How to Use npm as a Build Tool and it stuck with me.

Games of Shame

Some time around the last Steam sale I knew I couldn’t keep buying games I never intend to play.

The Proposal

Some of you may know that several weeks ago I got engaged to my amazing partner.

Installing Letsencrypt on Ubuntu 14.04 and nginx

Here at the Clearleft towers we use DigitalOcean and our servers run Ubuntu 14.04 and Nginx 1.8.0.

Scraping Twitter Feeds with NodeJS

Well, the time finally came. I had been using Remy Sharp's handy little twitter.js script to show one tweet on the homepage of my latest live site, Pulse, and Twitter's API changes finally caught up with it.

Setting up a FreeNAS server

I'd planned on setting up a Fileserver/NAS for quite a while now. Who hasn't?

Occasional Git

Welcome to Occasional Git! For when you're working on your own, on small-ish sites. These are the things I encounter sometimes only once a month, if that. I'll be supplementing the commands with examples I've used personally.

The Case of the Linux Box and nginx

Following on from the last post which laid the landscape covering the whys, we now get on to the hows.

Welcome!

Welcome, fine folks, to the all-new gablaxian.com.