Migrating The Daily Free Press
How we moved (and fixed) a Wordpress site with 100k monthly views from BlueHost to DigitalOcean tldr; we made a previously unusable student newpaper website usable with minimal downtime! One of the things I really…
How to fix "can't access Wordpress admin (/wp-admin) after changing url or migrating database"
Every once in a while, I get the horrible misfortune opportunity to fix a bug that is very small but very annoying. This one took an entire Sunday afternoon. If you are ever migrating a…
How to be Emily
I read a lot of Hacker News, and I was scrolling along one day when I stumbled upon a blog post from the wonderful people over at interviewing.io. The post is titled "If…
How API Request Signing Works (and how to implement HMAC in NodeJS)
Intro: Web APIs are notoriously hard to secure. As a developer, anytime you expose endpoints/resources to The Internet™ for others to use, it's important to make sure that the people who use those endpoints…