Author: Josh Sherman
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How to Show Full Timestamps, Including Seconds, with the ls Command
I’d say of all of the command-line applications I use, ls is in the top slot. So much so, that I have it wired up to run every time I change directories with cd. Recently, I wanted to get some further insight to time a file was last modified. Easy enough, slap -l to get…
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VPS Showdown – February 2025 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
After the last couple of months of comparing all of the nuanced instances available from DigitalOcean and Vultr, I decided to just keep things simple, and stick to comparing the the “regular” instances from everybody. If nothing else, it feels unfair to Akamai Linode to compare their always consistently priced $5 offering to these higher…
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New Old Tunes
Last week I went a bit off the rails blogging about not being sure what to blog about. The original intent was to finally discuss some of my new and old musical endeavors. I make a lot more music (and noise) than I actually end up releasing to the public. Like, decades worth of riffs,…
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Overwritten and Underinspired
I’ve been in a weird place with my blog as of late. I’m in a dry spell of running into technical problems to solve and discuss. Probably just jinxed it, but it’s been a few months since Arch Linux has given me much grief. My coding endeavors, inside of work and out, have been mostly…
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VPS Showdown – January 2025 – Vultr Cloud Compute vs. High Frequency vs. High Performance AMD and Intel
After last week’s snafu with the data, I went into this week’s post a bit more cautious. Instead of spinning up all of the instances at one time, I went ahead and spun up servers for each class individually. I would collect the benchmarks for the class, then destroy the servers before spinning up the…
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Never Trust, Always Verify
Hi. I’m Josh, and I have been doing VPS comparison posts off and on for over a decade. Every post I remind folks to do their own independent benchmarks and analysis. I don’t do this to encourage the usage of my server benchmark script. No, I tell people this because you shouldn’t just believe what…
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KNULLI won’t connect to Wi-Fi
Like many, I have fallen down the rabbit hole of retro gaming handhelds. I have amassed a small collection of mostly Anbernic devices. I’ve logged a decent amount of time on a few of them, but my favorite “game” is still setting them up with custom firmware and tinkering. Already owning a Steam Deck (both…
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What do I need to claim an artist on Spotify?
I’ve been through this process a handful of times now. While I’m not a big fan of the typical process, I understand it. More so, after a few tries, I feel like I really have it dialed in, even if it still requires a back and forth or two to get things over the line…
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How to set dock icon size on macOS from the command-line
I don’t particularly love the dock on macOS. In fact, I don’t particularly like docks at all. I don’t use them to launch apps, and I find it abysmal that many macOS apps use the dock to communicate status, new messages and such. Keeping true to my vain attempts to create a consistent experience between…
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How to unstow with GNU Stow
I love simple but powerful tools. Like most of the GNU packages, stow does one thing and it does it really well. What’s it do? It stows files, of course! My primary use case for GNU Stow is in my dotfiles, where I use it to install my configuration files all over my $HOME directory.…