site: scheduled rebuild — publishing future-dated posts automatically
Adding a daily GitHub Actions cron workflow so future-dated Hugo posts go live on their scheduled date without a manual push.
blog
economic dashboard series: stage 4 — data source upgrades
fourth post in the series: replacing ETF proxies with direct data sources, investigating free alternatives, and fixing a BoC query bug hiding three months of bond yield data.
economic dashboard series: stage 3 — server-side data fetching
third post in the series: moving all data fetching out of the browser and into AWS Lambda.
economic dashboard series: stage 2 — hugo integration
second post in the series: giving the dashboard a proper home on tacedata.ca and the decisions that went into it.
economic dashboard series: post 1 - what and why
first post in a series documenting the build-out of a Canadian economic indicators dashboard.
security - stage 2 - internet cache and the wayback machine
Cleaning git history removes data from your repo — but not from search engines, the Wayback Machine, or GitHub’s cache. Here is what to check.
security - stage 1 - cleaning sensitive data out of git history
After a security review flagged AWS identifiers committed to a public repo, we used git-filter-repo to scrub them from all 46 commits — including file content and commit messages.
site: stage 6: site monitoring with aws cloudwatch
Setting up availability monitoring for tacedata.ca using CloudWatch Synthetics — what it is, what it costs, and how we set it up.
new digs
Introducing the new tacedata.ca — why I moved from WordPress to a static site on AWS, and what I plan to do with it.
site: stage 5: cutting over a website
Moving tacedata.ca from Websavers DNS to AWS Route 53 — what the cutover actually involves, and how to do it without taking the site down.