Developer Logs

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  • EC2 WordPress Behind CloudFront

    Running your own WordPress server with all sorts of shiny Plugins you can install seemed cool and fun to explore. Unfortunately running your WordPress server with WooCommerce behind a Load Balancer turned out to be more costly than expected. WooCommerce itself requires t2.large instance of EC2, which costs over $60 per month. I’ve tried using…

  • Stuck in the Wall

    Here’s a weird bug that took about a month to crack. Sometimes when playing multiplayer, a party member, host or not, would get stuck in the wall, unable to move, but only visually for other party members. The player was moving around just fine on their screen. What was going on? Checking the network calls,…

  • WordPress Page Cache

    When this WordPress website was just some text and images, I ignored the warnings of there not being a cache for static pages. I talked about moving images to an S3 bucket which mitigated the slowness that I was experiencing. However, once I added the WooCommerce plugin to add a merch shop for this weksite,…