https://iamcarrico.com Writing by Ian Carrico en-us Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://iamcarrico.com/writings/a-new-beginning-with-ai/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/a-new-beginning-with-ai/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Welcome to my new website, hopefully I will maintain this one. https://iamcarrico.com/writings/upgrading-to-lets-encrypt/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/upgrading-to-lets-encrypt/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:00:00 +0000 How I used Let's Encrypt for my own SSL/TLS certificates on all of my web servers. https://iamcarrico.com/writings/getting-unbiased-sources-on-the-web/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/getting-unbiased-sources-on-the-web/ Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:00:00 +0000 Every day, we are hit with a drudge of information. How do we differentiate the facts from the bias? Some tips that I use to try and wade through the information on the internet. https://iamcarrico.com/writings/where-i-go-for-the-news/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/where-i-go-for-the-news/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:00:00 +0000 Where do I go to find news about our world? Number 5 will astound you. https://iamcarrico.com/writings/ignore-your-analytics/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/ignore-your-analytics/ Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:00:00 +0000 Performance is an extension of user experience— our work is to make the user feel better using our site. Why don't we use our user's happiness as a metric for performance tests? https://iamcarrico.com/writings/upgrade-to-http2/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/upgrade-to-http2/ Mon, 02 May 2016 12:00:00 +0000 HTTP/2 has been around, it is time I upgraded my servers to use it. https://iamcarrico.com/writings/never-read-the-comments/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/never-read-the-comments/ Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:00:00 +0000 I have not been on social media much as of late, this is why. https://iamcarrico.com/writings/the-jelly-scale/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/the-jelly-scale/ Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:00:00 +0000 If you have ever traveled with me, you will know there are few things I enjoy more than a good greasy spoon diner for breakfast. I have come up with my own scale for labeling the types of diners I go to. https://iamcarrico.com/writings/jeb-2016-performance-audit/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/jeb-2016-performance-audit/ Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:00:00 +0000 A performance review of jeb2016.com, and how the performance of the campaign site can be improved. https://iamcarrico.com/writings/how-and-why-i-made-my-own-cdn/ https://iamcarrico.com/writings/how-and-why-i-made-my-own-cdn/ Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:00:00 +0000 My site loads two different pages depending on whether or not there are cookies set that mark the CSS and fonts have been loaded already. There was no CDN that would allow me to do this without immense cost. I did what any sane developer would do, I created my own CDN.