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Free
Giving a present is much more satisfying than receiving one. It's awesome to see someone genuinely happy with the thing you just gave away. That's why I've been giving away my photos for free for as long as I can remember. Anyone can do whatever they please with them, as...
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Re: Charge what you’re worth, damnit!
If you’re doing client work you’ve probably encountered people say: I don’t have the money right now but there’s loads more paid work coming after this if you do well enough Fuck you, pay me. (source) It’s hard to come up with a price tag for the product or service...
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How I fired myself
A lot of people have been asking whether or not I’m still available for freelance work so I think it’s time for some explaining. I want to talk about a difficult time in my life, how I made a few stupid mistakes along the way and how I eventually got...
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503 maintenance pages with Lighttpd
Every website needs some maintenance every now and then. Maybe you’re pushing some major updates or your database server needs an upgrade. In any case, it’s nice to have a maintenance page to let your visitors know service will be restored soon. This maintenance page could be a simple HTML...
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Lighttpd and password protected directories
If you want to protect and entire website or just a directory, let’s say the admin of your website, you can use mod_auth to do just that. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to get it up and running. First you need to enable mod_auth in lighttpd.conf. server.modules = ( "mod_auth" )...
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Use Lighttpd as a transparant proxy
Using the proxy module in Lighttpd you can get a transparant, super light-weight web server in front of your application server. I’ve been using it to proxy traffic to the built-in web server of the Play framework for SSL termination. First you will need to enable the proxy module in lighttpd.conf. server.modules = ( "mod_proxy" )...
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AWS EC2 Ubuntu: No keyring installed error
This error only happens after bundling your Ubuntu EC2 instance to create a new instance. When you run apt-get update you will see this error: W: GPG error: http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release: No keyring installed in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/. W: GPG error: http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security Release: No keyring installed in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/. W: GPG error:...
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How to reset iCloud bookmark sync
Some people get into a huge bookmark mess when they want to merge and sync their bookmarks via iCloud. This is how I finally fixed my issue. Turn off iCloud bookmark sync on all of your devices except the Mac, choose to delete all previously synced bookmarks Create a backup...