Troy Meier twkm

Setting up a web server to track a repo

A setup to allow pushing to live/staging from a local repo. This is mostly a reference that I can return to later, but maybe it will be helpful to you too!

Improvements to this process

The process could use some improvements

Handle conflicts automatically in the post-receive script

padding-bottom is calculated using the aspect ratio of the video. a 16:9 video has a padding-bottom of 56.25%, while a 4:3 video has a padding-bottom of 75%.

More detailed article at Smashing Magazine

.videowrapper {
    position: relative;
    padding-bottom: 56.25%;
    padding-top: 35px;
    height: 0;

Conditional X-Robots-Tag Header

This apache configuration can be added to the .htaccess file of a site to automatically keep staging and development versions from being indexed by Google and other search engines. No more worrying about whether or not noindex is keeping live sites from being crawled by search engines!

.htaccess configuration

# Check HTTP_HOST variable and set noindex, nofollow for hosts other than the live site
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$

.htaccess Reference

A collection of useful .htaccess snippets for SEO and development.

Redirect naked domain to www subdomain

# Redirect naked domain to www subdomain
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

Schema.org JSON-LD in Google Tag Manager

Quick reference for inserting JSON-LD in a page to use for Schema.org purposes within Google Tag Manager.

From this excellent Moz post.

<script>
    (function()
    {

Load jQuery via Google Hosted Libraries

Loading jQuery via a Google Hosted Libraries allows it to load quicker, as other sites who have included it from Google's Hosted Libraries will ensure that jQuery is already available in the cache of many of your visitors' computers.

The following snippet of code will attempt to load jQuery from Google Hosted Libraries and fall back to a local version if it did not load correctly for any reason. Ensure that you update the path to your local version of jQuery in the code below.

<!-- Load jQuery via Google CDN, fall back to local version if not loaded -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

	## Get Countries

	gawk '
	BEGIN {
	FS="\",\""
	OFS="\",\""
	print "\"" "id", "name", "slug" "\""
	}
	NR>1 {
	slug = tolower($2)

	#!/bin/bash

	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: killswitch
	# Required-Start: openvpn $network $remote_fs $syslog
	# Required-Stop: openvpn $network $remote_fs $syslog
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: VPN Killswitch
	# Description: This script uses UFW to ensure all traffic goes through VPN

	#!/bin/bash
	# Text enclosed in {} throughout should be replaced with your desired values
	export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
	# May also need to export $HOME: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/758077>
	# This seems to be necessary on a Mac crontab process
	ulimit -n 4096

	if [ -r .last_backup ]; then
	LAST_BACKUP=$(cat .last_backup)
	else