I create a lot of little static websites for friends and family and want them to have some level of reliabilty and ease in updating. Back in 2015 I moved this personal blog to AWS using a mixture of S3, CloudFront, and Route53. At the time there wasn’t a lot of players in the easy static site hosting space, but these days I’d recommend purpose built services like Netlify. I mostly stick with my current setup to avoid the hassle of migrating so many projects or having two separate pipelines running.
Update 2023-03-25: I’ve had to take this down thanks to some fuckboy’s API changes.
TL;DR: Aural - Sound Of Twitter
After my last post discussing building a local site that lets you “listen” to Twitter, I decided to put it on the public-facing internet. But rather than just whack it on a VPS I decided to expand my horizons by putting a bunch of components through AWS.
My desired setup was:
Not long after the passing of Terry Pratchett, revered author of the Discworld series (and many other excellent works!), people everywhere wanted to find ways of memorialising him in their own ways. One great solution was based around adding headers to web requests. The “clacks” sempahore system in Terry Pratchett is a form of low-tech, distributed, packet-switched network much like the internet and so it seemed fair to modify our systems to carry on his legacy.