Projects
Software and systems
I’m a software engineer and web systems architect by trade, and I build servers and work with operating systems as a hobby. Here are some of my larger, published projects.
Bildaro · A self-hosted photo gallery built using Jekyll and hosted on AWS.
Ripley · FreeBSD homelab server running ZFS, bhyve, and jails.
Jekyll Base · A starting point for building new Jekyll websites.
Leona · WordPress framework for enterprise environments. (Private)
Page Tree · WordPress plugin showing an advanced view of a site's page hierarchy and metadata.
Laika · Automated analytics retrieval and interactive reporting dashboards. (Archived)
Presentations
I’ve given a number of talks and have lead numerous training courses about web systems and web development.
How to set up a CDN (WordCamp 2016)
Slowly loading websites not only negatively influence the customer’s perception of your brand, but they also negatively impact your site’s search engine rankings.
In this presentation by Gaelan Lloyd, learn how to use a CDN to reduce load on your server while speeding up the delivery of your website’s files to visitors all around the world. You’ll learn how to set up two inexpensive yet powerful systems from Amazon Web Services: Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront.
Themes are fundamental to a WordPress site. But, they usually require some customization to get them to look as you want them to. In this presentation I show you how to properly customize a WordPress theme using Child Themes so that you can safely make changes to a theme without modifying the author’s code.