Author: Josh Sherman
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Content Pruning for SEO: Less is More
As I’m attempting to take my blog and writing more seriously, I decided it was time to do some content pruning for SEO purposes. Going into this, I knew that the SEO benefits of content pruning, like much of the dark arts of SEO, are anecdotal at best. Google once said it was a good…
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Moving to WordPress from Jekyll
I recently told some friends that I was moving to WordPress from Jekyll. Not a surprise, the overwhelming sentiment was that hell had in fact frozen over. If you’ve followed my blog, you may remember that I’ve bounced around between WordPress and Jekyll a few times. I’ve also jumped around between GitHub, GitLab, and Cloudflare’s…
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How to install Node.js 21 on Ubuntu
Installing Node.js 21 on Ubuntu is a pretty simple task regardless if you’re targeting an LTS or a non-LTS release. Personally, when working with Ubuntu in production environments, I stick to LTS releases like Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. This guide should work well on Ubuntu 22.10 and Ubuntu 23.10 as well. Installing…
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Dark mode not working with GNOME Terminal on Arch Linux
Dark mode, I love it so. I use it any and everywhere I can. GNOME has continued to offer better and better dark mode support, initially via dark versions of themes, and more recently, seemingly more native and backed in without much hackery to support it. With the exception of…
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How to overwrite read-only files with vim
We can file this post into the category of “stuff I’ve known how to do for a long time, but I was shocked I hadn’t put out a post discussing it before”. If you use Vim or Neovim as much as I do, you end up touching a lot of…
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Zoom failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized
Zoom, the video conferencing app, has been part of my work stack for quite a while now. Love it or hate it, it’s probably here to stay. Upon reinstalling Arch Linux on my work rig, I installed Zoom, and lo and behold, Zoom wouldn’t launch. This was a fairly blind…
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How to install dig on Arch Linux
If you haven’t picked up on it by now, I am a huge fan of the command-line. Simple applications, they do one thing really well and they can all be piped together to increase their power. One command-line application that I use on the regular is dig. The dig command…
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libgedit-amtk and amtk are in conflict
One of my least favorite thing about Arch Linux is the frequency of updates. I get a ton of anxiety when I see the number of packages creep up past 100, but at the same time, I also hate having to update 3 or 4 times per day. To help…
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Your Steam Deck is connected to a slow charger
Since procuring a Steam Deck, it has continually been my go-to gaming device. While I do the majority of my gaming in handheld mode, I have been dabbling more into playing on the TV. My current rig for big screen play includes a docking station, an Xbox One controller, and…
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How to enable multilib on Arch Linux
Even with all of the packages available in the Arch User Repository (AUR) it wouldn’t be Arch if I didn’t run into a scenario where I needed to install something from another repository other than the ones that I had enabled out of the box. The package in question would…