Notebook Heavy is Now Static

The site you’re reading is now statically hosted on AWS S3. Because the only thing that doesn’t change is change and my site doesn’t change that much so I decided to change it to something that doesn’t change. - me I decided to switch Notebook Heavy from a dynamically generated, traditional blogging engine, to one that is written offline and statically rendered. The reasons are both financial and operational, so read on to find out more about what I did and why.…

Actual Client IP Address on Azure WebSites with CloudFlare

Over at Vinyl Deals, I use CloudFlare to handle some caching and firewall issues. Like any good server admin, I check my logs to make sure the app is running smoothly so people can find those sweet record deals. But sometimes I notice a strange uptick in traffic on the back-end that doesn’t show up in the front-end analytics. Usually, this means it’s just a bot. Often it’s Googlebot, which I’m totally fine with.…