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Never Look Back - Why I Haven't Looked Back
Chapter 7: Explaining why the author hasn’t looked back at Ruby on Rails, highlighting the benefits of Elixir and Phoenix for modern web development. -
Never Look Back - Conclusion
Conclusion: Summarizing the author’s journey from Rails to Elixir/Phoenix and the reasons for embracing the future of concurrent, real-time, and resilient web development. -
The Big Bang of the World Wide Web
Today, I stumbled ober a YouTube Short about the first Internet pages, back in the 1990s. altendorfer.at appears at altendorfer.at 1998-02-10 16:33.
The Genesis of the Web
Let’s take a journey back in time to the very beginning of the World Wide Web. It all started at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, with a proposal by Tim Berners-Lee. The goal was to create a system to share information among scientists.
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Securing Directories with Nginx Basic Auth
Protecting Your Web Content
Sometimes you have content on your website that you don’t want to be publicly accessible. Whether it’s a private section for family and friends, or a staging area for a new project, Nginx’s basic authentication is a simple and effective way to password-protect parts of your site.
In this post, we’ll walk through how to protect a directory called
/privateand everything inside it.1. Creating the Password File
First, we need to create a
.htpasswdfile that will store our username and password. The password needs to be encrypted. We can use thehtpasswdcommand-line tool for this. If you don’t have it, you can usually install it withapache2-utils. -
Blame the AI
Isn’t that nice and easy? I can just add a small note that a text or a piece of source code was created with the help of AI and then blame every mistake in my publication on the AI ;-)
