A few months ago I wrapped up some work on a fun little project I developed for some teaching exercises. Let me tell you about it!

Today I learned that it IS possible to make a relatively simple static site that has some automatic authentication built in to NGINX that will use a custom HTML file for the login page as opposed to the basic-auth prompt that gets so annoying.

We all want that next great application; NOW. And we KNOW that we can just hash out this great new thing. But where does that leave us the next time we want to do the same sort of thing?