Books

Code Standards: Backend

They'll do their job well... maybe.

Code Standards: Frontend

Trying to maintain consistent frontend anything will drive a person to insanity.

Development Updates, pre-launch

The informal logs/diaries I've been keeping of development progress.

Efficiency & Performance

How to make an art website more efficient, so it isn't slow and expensive.

Frequently Asked Questions

This is specifically for FAQs about the tech implementation of Deserted Chateau.

Implementing Searches / Galleries

Implementing search, gallery results for a given user's profile and similar use cases. A lot of caching and efficiency consider...

Infrastructure (AWS)

Notes on AWS infrastructure, how to set up the various services, etc.

Infrastructure (Non-AWS)

Notes on setting up and dealing with non-AWS infrastructure, e.g. Bunny/Zoho.

Interface Design

A good, well-designed interface is surprisingly hard to make.

Introduction

A guide on art site infrastructure, finances, and other important matters.

Language pitfalls

What do you mean "true does not equal true"... what planet is this?

Local Machine Setup

Setting up remote tools for convenient coding.

Media Transcoding

Resizing and re-encoding images/videos, how to do it, and the importance of it to a media-centric website.

Moderation

Technical solutions and design choices that can be used to help moderate content efficiently.

Public Documentation Templates

Security

Securing your website from malicious attacks, mischevious users, bots, etc.

Setting Up

Setting up your website, and the infrastructure needed to make it function.

Tech stack

The different languages, frameworks, and so on that Deserted Chateau uses.