Articles
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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…
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How to unstow with GNU Stow
I love simple but powerful tools. Like most of the GNU packages, stow does one thing and it does it really well. What’s it do? It stows files, of course! My primary use case for GNU Stow is in my…
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VPS Showdown – December 2024 – DigitalOcean Regular vs. Premium AMD vs. Premium Intel
Switching it up for the last post of the year. While comparing DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr is fun and all, I’ve been wondering how performance looks across a single provider. This month, I went with DigitalOcean, focusing on their…
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Three Cheers for Older Apps
The last month or so has seen a lot of shake up in my tech stack. From switching to Alacritty to finally aligning my hotkeys across GNOME and macOS. I even ate crow and came back to Neovim after switching…
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How to Use the Option Key as Alt in Alacritty on macOS
Shaking up my tech stack has been fantastic, until it isn’t. I recently transitioned from stock terminal apps to Alacritty, and then swapped out tmux for zellij. The former has treated me well, and the latter has been extremely welcoming.…