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…
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…
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.…
I’m the type of person that will invest way too much time trying to juice my productivity. While I try to keep things as close to stock as possible, I do rely heavily on a small number of hotkeys. The…
After a little detour last month, comparing some higher priced plans, I brought it back down to the $5-ish range. Vultr nearly didn’t make the cut, as their site and login started to puke errors at the same time that…
Next.js does a great job with environment variables. Out of the box, it supports loading up environment variables in next.config.js as well as using a .env file. Both of which are made available inside of server components. For client-side components…
I finally went all in on switching to Alacritty. For the longest time, I’ve been a bit reluctant, sticking it out with the default terminal of my operating system du jour. On Linux, running GNOME, the GNOME Terminal was more…
It’s been a minute since I’ve last used Trimage. I probably installed it when I had initially setup Arch Linux on this system. Curious about whether or not an image that was part of a pull request I was reviewing…
Time for the spooky season edition of the VPS Showdown. The last few months have been a lot of the same, so I decided to take another crack at trying to do an apples to apples comparison, focusing on price.…
When working with dependencies in a DigitalOcean App Platform build, there are time when you may need to include development dependencies. Such instances arise when you’re using something like TypeScript, which you’d typically have listed in your devDependencies because it’s…