Amazon Web Services, through their Simple Storage Service (S3), provide an inexpensive and flexible solution for hosting static websites. These would normally be sites that are developed on a local environment (using Hugo or Jekyll), then pushed to either a web server or - in this case - a cloud-based storage platform configured to make the generated pages public. This post discusses a scripted approach to building a bucket you want to use to host an S3 website from scratch.

This first installment in a series discussing various JavaScript design patterns covers one of the most basic patterns available, the constructor pattern.

This first installment in a series discussing various JavaScript design patterns covers one of the most basic patterns available, the constructor pattern.

Today we go over the process of writing a very simple Bash script. We’ll be able to detect whether a build for a Hugo static site is present, push the files to a Git repository for our website, and automate all the steps involved.

In this first part of a series on implementing a PHP/MySQL-based API endpoint for our data, we go over some basic principles, as well as stated goals, that will guide the work we’ll be undertaking later.