Author: Josh Sherman
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Left align multiple line list items
I don’t claim to know all the things, and this post is definitely something that I’m pretty sure nearly everybody on the planet knew about but me. The problem I was attempting to solve recently is that I had a list and the left alignment of the multiple lined list…
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VPS Showdown – 16GB – August 2018 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
It’s that time again! This month I decided to compare some higher end 16GB servers instead of the usual $5 to $10 dollar instances. Each costing only $80 per month, these servers have a ton of bang for the buck and should be more than enough for even a high…
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Will Vim die with Bram Moolenaar?
I really, really really want to love nvim. Yet another go with it this past week and I’m still not convinced it’s ready for me. With that, I do agree that it’s the future of vim. Development still seems to be moving quickly and in the right direction, but as…
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FizzBuzz in TypeScript 3.0
FizzBuzz, the engineering smoke test that quickly reveals if somebody is drastically under qualified in their development abilities. Even if you’re unfamiliar with the exercise, most are able to make short work of it. It only leverages a small handful of programming concepts that even the most novice developer should…
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$5 VPS Showdown – July 2018 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
Bit late with this month’s post, been a crazy month for me! Since last month, DigitalOcean has released Projects which doesn’t really affect these benchmarks, but is notable because the concept of grouping servers has been something that both Linode and Vultr have had in some capacity for a while…
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Keeping up with what’s next
Had an interesting conversation today with a buddy of mine. He was telling me about how he’s mastered gulp and right on cue, I asked “why not webpack”? No, I didn’t triage that into a lecture about how superior Arch Linux is or anything. Quite the opposite, I got to…
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Six months with the 7 Minute Workout
January 1st, 2018, hung over from New Year’s Eve, I started doing the 7 Minute Workout. For those unfamiliar, the 7 Minute Workout is a series of 13 exercises that are done for 30 seconds each with a 10 second break in between. I’m still unsure where the name “7…
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Encouraging entrepreneurial spirit in kids
Most entrepreneurs share similar stories about their earliest entrepreneurial adventures from their youth. These stories are often about selling something to their classmates and/or door to door in their neighborhood. Don’t think I’ve ever heard one about selling lemonade though. So how does one encourage their child to make similar…
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How to calculate United States holiday observances
Usually around a holiday I will do a post that’s somehow related to the holiday. Seemed kind of silly to do a post on how to calculate Independence Day in the United States since it’s pretty straight forward. It always lands on the 4th day of the month of July….
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Stop blaming your hosting company for downtime
I was struck with downtime last week. Linode’s Fremont data center went offline in a big way. Service was interrupted for nearly 4 hours. Did I panic? OF COURSE I DID! At first at least. Thing is, when a site of mine goes down, I just assume that I had…