Week #805 & #806

Week #805 We wrote about the Old Icelandic Month (kinda) of Aukanætur. This is a short 4 to 10 day week (depending if it is a leap week year) to keep the 12 months of 30 days each starting on the same weekday. It was a busy week, we touched on 9 different projects, sometimes all on the same day. It can be very exhausting, especially when we assumed a few of these were finishing. We’re really hoping that it is a transition period where some will be ending, others ramping-up, because we can’t have them overlap for too long! On the PETALS project, we found a bug that’s been plaguing us for a while. It was not code related, but DNS. To setup the CNAMEs on Heroku we use Cloudflare, but somewhere deep in their settings we also had something checked that would drop our x-headers when referring http to https causing some infinite redirects. For the longest time we had that auto-forwarding turned off. It works on the dev server and we were chasing ghosts for a long time on production. This…