Articles
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Where to find your Amplitude API key
On multiple occasions, I’ve needed to look up an Amplitude API key, and for the life of me, struggled to find it. I feel dumb every time. I’ve even argued with Chat GPT on the matter, as the LLM tried…
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Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended on Arch Linux
I do a pretty good job of keeping my Arch Linux installation up to date. What I don’t do a great job of is reading all of the important news and messages that scroll on by when I do. Generally,…
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Switch to previous checked out git branch
I jump between git branches pretty regularly, doing so from the command-line pretty exclusively. When I need to switch to another branch, I’ve always just checked it out. I even have a nice little alias, gco to save from needing…