Very-nearly-free HTTPS redirects for Heroku and DNSimple

Tuesday, while recording an episode of The Changelog, Adam reminded me that my redirects from possyparty.com to posseparty.com didn't support HTTPS. Naturally, because this was caught live and on air and was my own damn fault, I immediately rushed to cover for the shame I felt by squirreling away and writing custom software. As we do.

See, if you're a cheapskate like me, you might have noticed that forwarding requests from one domain or subdomain to another while supporting HTTPS isn't particularly cheap with many DNS hosts. But the thing is, I am particularly cheap. So I built a cheap solution. It's called redirect-dingus:

What is it? It's a tiny Heroku nginx app that simply reads a couple environment variables and uses them to map request hostnames to your intended redirect targets for cases when you have some number of domains and subdomains that should redirect to some other canonical domain.

Check out the README for instructions on setting up your own Heroku app with it for your own domain redirect needs. I recommend forking it (just in case I decide to change the nginx config to redirect to an offshore casino or crypto scam someday), but you do you.