Hockey Catch-all Statistics versus Salary Cap

This project 1 is motivated by the “WAR” stat in baseball, where I have adopted the “Goals vs. Threshold” (GVT) statistic from Tom Awad. Here, I only consider the Offensive GVT for forward skaters and defensemen (OGVT). ...

November 7, 2017 570 words

Updated Nginx configuration with Let's Encrypt headers

I’ve added a new security_headers.conf file in /etc/nginx/ to keep all the HTTPS headers in one place: ...

April 3, 2017 263 words

Getting an A+ on Mozilla's HTTP Observatory

After I learned about Mozilla’s tool to test how secure your site is, I ran it on my site https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze.html?host=brege.org and received an “F”. ...

January 9, 2017 108 words

New way forward for deploying brege.org

ssh’ing into my Digital Ocean droplet has become rather annoying for maintaining this website. Particularly annoying is dealing with images on two different filesystems. In the README (commit 1a0ee5a), I describe the steps I have been doing to publish an article to https://brege.org. I tried implementing this method, but it is very long and requires many modifications to the post-receive hook to get it working on a per-user basis. Here I outline a way to do this in a more conservative manner. ...

October 18, 2016 294 words

Adding desktop entries in GNOME 3

Firefox Developer Edition has newer features than what was available from my distribution’s package manager (Fedora). Whereas I’ve been using it as my daily driver, I’ve had to do so through a terminal to launch it. With an alias in my ~/.bashrc such as dfox="~/Preview/firefox-developer/firefox --profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/7ahl24yk.default/' I was able to launch Firefox Developer quickly enough. Unfortunately, I found it annoying that I couldn’t just type [Super Key] + “Fire” in GNOME and be on my way to browsing the web. ...

October 17, 2016 448 words

brege.org now on GitHub

Earlier I added the hugo source files for this website on GitHub. Take a look! https://github.com/brege/brege.org

October 12, 2016 16 words