A little under a year ago I wrote a walkthrough: Set up a Self Signed Certificate on macOS's Built in Apache.
Recently a new tool showed up called mkcert has come and made life way easier.
It's a wonderful tool that instead of building Self-Signed Certificates, sets your local machine up with a ce…
I recently purchased a .app domain for a side project; .app domains are interesting as they require SSL at all times.
I like to set up my dev environments as subdomains of my actual domain, such as local.donatstudios.com. It makes working with CORS and cookies a lot simpler for applications with A…
Every time I would upgrade OS X it took probably 45 minutes of fiddling with my Apache configuration to get it working properly. I'm writing this article in the hopes of saving myself and others some time.
The Setup
For the following examples, {username} represents your username.
Firstly, if you…
I find myself often needing to set up a large number of 301 redirects from an excel file of old to new url’s. Until this point, writing these had been a fairly exhausting process as you need to be certain to escape every character that could be picked up by the regular expression engine, or risk uni…
With Google recently starting to involve load time in search rankings, there has been a lot of talk about GZIP. Google Webmaster Tools exclaims "Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by XKB:". Many people listen to this, and go out looking for a quick fix…
