Posts tagged with "web-development"

Running a technical blog has turned into a maze of Google services, each with its own setup complexity, approval processes, and interconnected dependencies. What started as a simple Jekyll website has become an exercise in Google service integration frustration — and I'm still fighting.

How to implement Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) on a Jekyll website hosted on GitHub Pages for better content discoverability.

Google Docs uses URL-based clipboard for images, which breaks when you need an actual file. Double-click then Shift+right-click forces the browser to expose the raw image.

I’m live with the Lets Encrypt certificates for the blog.mcgarrah.org website. This has been awhile in the making and I’m kind of excited. I’m on a legacy environment with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS so part of the process is manual but certificate update just happens nicely. Updating the Apache config files has a little bit of effort but nothing too bad.

I’m beginning to setup enough infrastructure that a wildcard certificate would be nice but I’m uninterested in paying several hundred dollars a year for that certificate. The free certs that used to be around just are not there anymore so far as I can see. My goal is to setup SSL certificates for both my email server and all the virtual host web sites I’m hosting under my mcgarrah.org domain for less than a hundred dollars a year.