Syntactic Bay Leaves is now HTTPS-secured Wed, Feb 14, 2018
Now that Chrome is shaming everyone into using HTTPS and crypto kiddies are man-in-the-middleing you with javascript miners, I decided it's time to convert the ol' blog to HTTPS.
A secure web is here to stay! Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as "Not secure" in July 2018. 🔐⚠️ https://t.co/hcIqQvYHUM
— Google Chrome (@googlechrome) February 8, 2018
I host this blog as an S3 static site, but S3 doesn't offer HTTPS for their buckets. I could use Cloudfront, but it always felt a little clunky when I worked with it in the past. That said, after doing some after-the-fact research, I found that someone has create some Terraform modules to automate this very thing.
Anyways, I went with Cloudflare since they have a free plan the lets me use their shared TLS certificate, with the added bonus of caching the contents to shave millipennies off of the pennies I pay for S3 hosting.
And now you can peruse this blog without fear. Enjoy.