markjgsmith

2019/12/07 #

Steady and stable progress

Along with the linkblog site redesign and more recent foundations building, I’ve made steady progress with other items too, including:

  • Improved useability during signup, activation and onboarding
  • Built foundation for upcoming SSL for Custom Domains feature
  • Added tags to profile page data exports
  • Optimizations for custom domains
  • Database connection improvements
  • Kept 3rd party modules up to date
  • Faq and privacy pages updates
  • Code build and deploy system overhaul
  • Server provisioning system overhaul
  • Refactored analytics for better anonymization
  • Improved security with CSP policy
  • Improved integration and unit tests
  • Frontend optimizations by using compiled templates on client
  • Better data validation

Because of previous work done to build a staging environment and load balance the site across several nodes I've been able to make all these changes while keeping downtimes to a minimum.

Here is the status page for the previous month:

Linkblog status page - November 2019 #

Today’s links:

  • Building a search engine from scratch - Another post in their series which I'm finding very interesting on building an independent search engine0x65.dev #

  • I installed the Strapi quickstart yesterday, pretty good setup instructions and no setup issues, the thing that's missing is that it's not at all obvious how to run in a debugger, which is crucial imogithub.com #

  • What is the difference between a Library vs A Framework?dev.to #

  • I just added a "Latest Linkblog.io News" section to the main linkblog landing page that collects together all the linkblog-related blog posts I've written to datelinkblog.io #

  • Larry, Sergey, and the Mixed Legacy of Google-Turned-Alphabetwww.wired.com #

  • The Rising Complexity of JAMstack Sites and How to Manage Them - An interesting approach to JAMStack sites where you use a CMS to generate the static sitecss-tricks.com #

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