Updates, death and rebirth

Published at Feb 1, 2024

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

The new year has come and with it a new me? I suppose I will start with the updates.

Updates

I took off for 2 week (14th dec to the 2nd Jan) and came back to work by hitting the ground running.

  • Things I couldn’t get to before my holiday I had to finish.
    • Wasn’t major things. A comparison tool needed some update to ignore items that we updated
    • A few issues (everyone knew about) had to be reworked and fixed
    • I rewrote the saving Json doc to use the Newtonsoft seriliser instead of a custom option remover
    • Started on a new rewrite of a existing project

Besides the 9-5 work day, training for my sub 25min 5km (or 3.1 mile) and being a good husband (hopefuly this gets me some brownie points), I havent had much time to play with the blog (I have been playing some games but I am not a robot and I need to destress), the last update to this was the previous ‘hello world’.

So today I am playing and adding some things.

  • With this blog post, I am going to try to get some site visablity on google. (I know I am on the first page but its shadowed by my previous company and some company I tried to start up)
Site Ranking
  • New Favicon Done
  • Robots file and site map Done
  • Cookie banner Done
  • Analytics with google and Clarity (website preformance and user issue tracking) and no plan to do ads Done

Okay but enough on that.

Death and rebirth

Reciently I discovered that the site was “down”, but it was a quick fix and 1 configuration update later it was back up.

Luckly it wasnt serious issue (no one realy relies on the site) but I had configured my domain to use cloudflare and had forgotten to update Cloudflare to point the site at the hosting provider. He's dead Jim

So why did I choose to use Cloudflare? 2 reasons.

  1. Even though I dont need the protection (dont think it will get ddos’ed) its still nice to have, and I learnt something
  2. I have a server at home and though some magic and docker, it links up with cloudflare. This allows me to test and host things localy, with out having to pay a arm and leg for a cloud provider, and have it out in the wild.