Ethan Hampton’s Projects This page lists various projects that are currently public to the world (at various stages of completion). esbuild-svelte This is an esbuild plugin that allows the compilation of files from the Svelte framework. These are two of the most efficient front-end development tools I know and it is a clear win to be able to bring them together. Most of my front-end projects use Svelte and/or esbuild in some capacity so I use this all the time.

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My Personal Infrastructure Below is a list of the infrastructure (both digital and physical) I use on a regular basis. As a result of my current infrastructure setup, a critical failure on part of Cloudflare, Backblaze, Azure or Google would cripple my online presence. This is something I am actively working to defend against by slowly moving to infrastructure that I have direct control over. Cloud services are incredibly convenient which has slowed that transition.

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I have decided that I don’t want to focus on search engine optimization anymore. Quite frankly it’s too much work for what I gain from it and I seem to be doing just fine without it. Why the shift? Well I started looking at where and how I find entertaining websites. The only one I found through a search engine in recent memory was https://rogerhub.com and even then it was through his final grade calculator.

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Running a server can be difficult and it is very easy to leak important credentials. Much easier than you want it to be. I ended up leaking a dangerous file from one of the WordPress websites I manage, named ‘wp-config.php.save’ to the public internet. It contained passwords to the site database, cookie keys and cookie salts. This created a couple issues, namely the fact that anyone who could access the database server could have had full write permissions. There are a couple reasons why I don’t think this happened, and most of them are due to great default protection by Azure, so I got extremely lucky. I am going to dive in to the events leading up to the incident and then what I did to resolve it.

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The moral of this story is don’t trust client side analytics.

I enable uBlock Origin (a tracking/ad blocker) on ethohampton.com. Seriously, on my own website. I don’t even have ads that I might need to block. So why, you might ask don’t I have my own domain on my unblocked list?

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Ethan Hampton’s Résumé EDUCATION Honors Bachelor of Computer Science, Oregon State University, Expected June 2023 HS Diploma, McMinnville High School, McMinnville, OR, June 2019 with Engineering & Aerospace Sciences Academy and Computer Science Pathways Honor Roll, 3.98 / 4.00 GPA, Top 5% of Senior class COMPUTER SCIENCE EXPERIENCE Student Systems Engineer, June 2020 – March 2021 & September 2021 – Present Oregon State University Open Source Lab Founder, 2015 – Present

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