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Hey! We're Norday, a Digital Design & Innovation Agency based in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Welcome to our tech blog, where we share our thoughts and experiments.

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  • July 10, 2023

    OpenIDConnect provider's HTTPS certificate doesn't match configured thumbprint

    A solution for this error

    4 min read
  • February 23, 2023

    Domain redirects for CloudFront

    How to redirect domains with CloudFront Functions.

    5 min read
  • December 20, 2022

    Slack messages from GitHub workflow

    How to send a message to Slack without dependencies.

    7 min read
  • November 30, 2022

    Melkweg.nl - Serving over 30,000 web pages blazingly fast.

    An insight into how we made the new website for the Melkweg fast and snappy.

    8 min read
  • October 20, 2022

    How to manage staging and production environments in Netlify

    Organise your environments like a pro.

    7 min read
  • August 9, 2022

    Deploying your PHP application to an Amazon Auto Scaling Group with Deployer

    This article tells you how to deploy your PHP application to an Amazon ASG, using Deployer.

    9 min read
  • July 25, 2022

    How GRRR uses GitHub Actions

    GRRR moved to GitHub Actions, and we happily shed light on how we arrange workflows.

    8 min read
  • April 25, 2022

    How to set CORS headers on your S3 bucket

    CORS rules can be finicky. This post is a quick reminder of how to open up your bucket using CORS.

    5 min read
  • February 27, 2022

    How to rename your "master" branch to "main"

    In the spirit of inclusive language, we happily follow the trend of moving towards the name "main" instead of "master" for our default Git branches.

    6 min read
  • December 7, 2021

    GitHub Actions and no AWS credentials

    GitHub Actions recently made OpenID support available. This article explains how to use it.

    6 min read
  • October 6, 2021

    Performing A/B tests on static websites using Cloudfront and Lambda@Edge

    How do you perform A/B experiments when your site is static?

    9 min read
  • September 20, 2021

    How to use OpenVPN in GitHub Action workflows?

    We love GitHub Actions and a client requires a VPN connection to deploy. Let's dive in!

    7 min read
  • March 17, 2020

    Programmatically switch dark mode in MacOS

    An epic weapon in the epic battle between light and dark!

    6 min read
  • December 3, 2019

    Case Study: Serverless architecture for The Ocean Cleanup

    Migrating from a dynamic monolithic CMS approach to a statically hosted WordPress site with microservices.

    10 min read
  • June 17, 2019

    Redirect www to non-www using CloudFront and Lambda@Edge

    Redirect your static site to a canonical hostname using Lambda@Edge.

    8 min read
  • May 8, 2019

    Speedup Travis CI for PHP apps

    Speed is vital when using CI. These are some tips to make Travis CI not the bottleneck.

    4 min read
  • May 31, 2018

    Auto-deploy with Travis CI

    An auto-deploy strategy using Travis CI and Git tags.

    6 min read
  • May 4, 2018

    Installing Homebrew PHP extensions with PECL

    A guide to help you install PHP extensions using Homebrew PHP versions from homebrew/core.

    7 min read
  • July 14, 2017

    Git feature branches

    The way we work with git feature branches.

    10 min read

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