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Collin M. Barrett

Collin M. Barrett is a staff software engineer in Memphis, TN.

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Compression

A collection of my blog posts tagged as being related to compression techniques for websites, data transit, etc.

Optimizing Self-Hosted Web Fonts

Optimizing Self-Hosted Web Fonts

Published: 2.23.16

By implementing .woff2 and slimming down my icon font, I reduced the weight of my site’s fonts by about 50KB. [Read More]

DIY VPS Build Guide for Fast and Cheap WordPress Hosting

DIY VPS Build Guide for Fast and Cheap WordPress Hosting

Published: 1.23.16

A verbose build guide for a modern, high-performance production WordPress VPS. Stack: Ubuntu, NGINX, MariaDB, HHVM, Redis, Let’s Encrypt. [Read More]

Example of Dynamically Caching WordPress on Cloudflare

Example of Dynamically Caching WordPress on Cloudflare

Published: 1.16.16

The performance improvements speak for themselves in this example of dynamically caching WordPress on CloudFlare from a traditional shared hosting server. [Read More]

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