caves of narshe

A Change of Direction

In the first half of my CDN blog, I talked a little about why I wanted to move my biggest website to leverage cloud delivery of content, and the broad strokes of how I planned to get started. This second half details more of the specifics of how I technically achieved the early days of that transition.

In my day job, we've been steadily moving into the cloud for a while now for all the same reasons everyone else does: it gives us less to maintain ourselves in terms of hardware, it allows us to distribute worldwide more efficiently, it saves us money in the long run, and so on. At home, though, it's a different story, though most of the goals are similar. So now that I have some working knowledge of using Amazon Web Services to create a content delivery network (more commonly known as CDN), I decided it was time to apply it to my largest and oldest hobby site too.

What's it like to be a middle-aged gamer? With the age of the Atari and NES, we are smack in the middle of the first generation who has had video gaming as a hobby, in their home, for their entire living memory. Here's a little bit about what that means to me for my present and the future.

Continuing from the previous Project in Detail blog, the first part of the new CoN logo's creation.

This is the first "Project in Detail" blog I've done about something that wasn't either explicitly web code, or heavily web code with some design enhancement along the way. This time around, I'm documenting the process involved in revamping the logo for Caves of Narshe to celebrate the site's 20th anniversary (on July 31, 2017).

Determining your KPIs for your website and knowing that you're hitting them is pretty awesome. But maybe there's something to be said for just feeling the vibes.