Articles
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It’s been years since I last created a carousel for a web site. Fortunately, things are a ton easier than I remember then being back in the day. Many days spent trying to get things just right, only to find…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…