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AI Coding Tools I Use to Ship Faster – June 2025
As I mentioned a few weeks back, I'm leaning really hard into generative AI development. The impact genAI has had on society is hard to miss, but as a developer in my 40s, it's easy to take the low road…
Ditching WordPress for Eleventy
Why do I do this to myself? I settle on a platform, get comfortable with it, and then I decide to throw it all away. I should have known that going back to WordPress was a bad idea. I'm not…
Leaning Into Generative AI Development
While I've been no stranger to using AI to help me with my coding tasks, recently I've really leaned into generative AI development. I'm not talking about chatting through a problem with ChatGPT, or playing the copy paste game to…
How to Increase WordPress Media Upload Size
I was recently asked if I knew how to increase WordPress' media upload size. Truthfully, it had been a minute, but I always have some ideas at the ready. What really blew my mind? The person had already asked their…
The VPS Showdown is Dead, Long Live the VPS Showdown!
It's the end of an era, yet again. I've finally decided to retire the VPS Showdown posts on this blog once and for all. As I've been trying to focus on blog more on prose and less on straight up…
Built for the Storm
I'm doing way too much these days. Work, side hustles, family stuff... SQUIRREL! The squirrel of the moment is a new project that I'm still in the initial build out phase of. Once it's done things will most likely level…
Fixing the Dropbox libappindicator Warning on GNOME
I'm a long time Dropbox user. While I've explored alternatives over the years, for me, nothing really comes close to the speed and convenience that Dropbox provides. Dropbox is sufficiently cross-platform, sans a few quirks I've observed with interacting with…
If you asked for feedback, save your objections
I solicit and am solicited for feedback regularly. Before I knew any better, I would get defensive about things. I also could take the feedback as the gospel and action on things without much tangible evidence to back it up…
VPS Showdown – April 2025 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
As we head into Q2, I sit here and write this post while wearing a hoodie, contemplating turning on the heat. What was supposed to be spring, has taken an odd turn back into the remnants of winter here in…
Does anybody actually check references anymore?
I've been asked to serve as a reference on numerous occasions throughout my career. I'm only ever been reached out to twice. I bring this up, because I noticed recently somebody that I used to work with, had a career…