Hello, my name is Bill. I’m the Founder & CEO of RateHighly (RateHighly).

I write mostly about software development, and other things I learn.

You can also read posts by people I follow by visiting my personal feed aggregator.

It’s just me running this blog, so if you see anything that can be improved please let me know.

Under the hood

This blog is a static site generated by Jekyll. It uses the default minima theme.

I host the blog on DigitalOcean (DO) and deploy it with Capistrano.

There’s not much else going on in the DO droplet (an Ubuntu virtual machine). I use Nginx as a proxy/web server. If you visit this site, your requests are served by Nginx. Nginx also caches the site.

Most of the caching workload is handled by my content delivery network (CDN). If you’re reading this, you likely haven’t hit my server at all, and are being served by CloudFlare.

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About me

I’ve been working on RateHighly since 2023, before then I worked as a software engineer in finance, for the UK government, and at a few startups.

Get in touch

You can find me on Github, LinkedIn, and Twitter.