After a few months of without Lightsail and UpCloud, it’s time to bring them back into the fold and subsequently roll back to benchmarking on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS instead of 20.04 LTS. That said, the only provide that doesn’t support the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu is Amazon Lightsail
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Gone are the days of stitching together disparate services in an effort to create a solid continue integration and deployment pipeline. GitLab has had it’s Runners for a while and recently GitHub stepped into the mix with their Actions offering. Because of this, using external services like Travis CI or
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My blog is generated by Jekyll. Jekyll uses Liquid for it’s templates. I include a decent amount of source code in my articles and sometimes the syntax collides with Liquid’s own syntax. Then this happens: Liquid Warning: Liquid syntax error (line 34): Expected end_of_string but found comparison When that, happens,
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With my recent exploration of GitHub Actions, I’ve had to figure out things that I’ve already figured out with other systems like GitLab Runners and Travis CI. One such thing is conditionally running steps. For things like code coverage, I’m only interested in sending off the coverage report to the
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As I’ve been rebuilding my social network from the ground up recently, I’ve been extremely mindful of the fact that 60% of my users are experiencing the site on a mobile device, specifically phones. Because of this, I’ve been attempting to craft a user interface that functions nearly identical on
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Saw a recent announcement from GitLab that the only and except syntax for GitLab CI/CD was going to be deprecated soon in the v13 release. Amendment: The only / except syntax isn’t actually being deprecated as pointed out by Jason Yavorska. It’s actually related to a template that is deprecating
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Recently I working on some posts on how to upgrade to Node v14.x on a variety of different versions of Debian and Ubuntu. The big gotcha came with trying to get things running on versions of Ubuntu that were at end of life and no longer receiving security updates. The
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My buddy Justin FINALLY got his website back up and running after “accidentally” letting his domain lapse. On a new domain, of freaking course, which unlocked a task on my TODO list as I needed to update a bunch of broken links on my site to point to his new
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While I’m the guy that effectively lives on the command-line, I still rarely use sed. As I’ve been trying to use it more, I’ve run into some gotchas, mostly around the regular expression syntax and doing multiple replacements at one time. Fortunately, both are easy enough to accomplish. Doing multiple
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Yes, another month’s post with less providers. For good reason though, as Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was recently released and I wanted to give it a whirl. Amazon is fairly notorious for being late to deliver new operating system releases, but the shocker was that UpCloud was also not offering up
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Big week for both the Node.js universe and the Ubuntu universe. Node.js version 14.x dropped on Tuesday the 21st with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS coming in hot on Thursday the 23rd. Both releases are important because they are both long term support releases. Node.js v14.x isn’t currently LTS, but it will
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The latest and greatest long term service release of Ubuntu is here and there’s no reason that you shouldn’t get to enjoy the latest and greatest (soon to be) long term service release of Node.js as well. Follow these quick and easy steps to install Node.js v14.x on your shiney
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Even though Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is right around the corner, that doesn’t mean you’re going to jump right on it. If you’re waiting for that first point release but still want to harness the power of the latest and greatest version of Node.js, you can follow these quick and easy
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Just because you’re a couple of versions behind the current Ubuntu release doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get to take advantage of the latest version of Node.js. Follow these quick and easy steps to install Node.js v14.x on your Ubuntu 19.04 system.<h2 id="getting-started">Getting started</h2> Before we can install Node.js we need
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You know your Ubuntu system is a bit behind, but who has time for system upgrades? Any why should that stop you from being able to use the latest version of Node.js? Turns out, it doesn’t, and by following these quick and easy steps you can run Node.js v14.x on
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Ubuntu LTS releases are built for the long haul and even with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS right around the corner, it may be a while before you upgrade your system. No reason you should be stuck with an older version of Node.js the whole time. Follow these quick and easy steps
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While technically at end of life, if you’re stuck on the older Ubuntu 17.10, you can still enjoy the latest version of Node.js. Follow these quick and easy steps to get Node Version Manager and Node.js v14.x installed on your Ubuntu 17.10 system.<h2 id="getting-started">Getting started</h2> Before we can install Node
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Even though you should be considering upgrading this interim release of Ubuntu, you can still leverage the latest version of Node.js to squeak just a bit more life out of it. Follow these quick and easy steps to install Node Version Manager and Node.js v14.x on your EOL Ubuntu 17.04
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You consider 2016 to be “your year” so you’ve been reluctant to upgrade from the last version of Ubuntu released that year. Even though it’s well past end of life as an interim release, you can still run the latest version of Node.js. Follow these quick and easy steps to
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While not quite at end of life, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is still working hard for some of us. Even on an aging workhorse, you can leverage the power of the latest and greatest version of Node.js. Follow these quick and easy steps to get Node.js v14.x up and running on
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You’re living life very close to the bleeding edge on Debian Testing, no reason to not run the latest version of Node.js. Follow these quick and easy steps to install Node.js v14.x on your Debian Testing system.<h2 id="getting-started">Getting started</h2> Before we can install Node.js we need to ensure that we
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You’re right on the bleeding edge of Debian, why not be on the bleeding edge with Node.js? Follow these quick and easy steps to get Node.js v14.x up and running on your Debian Sid / Unstable system.<h2 id="getting-started">Getting started</h2> Before we can install Node.js we need to ensure that we
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Just because you haven’t made the jump to Debian 10 yet, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy the power of the latest and greatest version of Node.js. Follow these quick and easy steps and you’ll be running Node.js v14 on Debian 9 in no time!<h2 id="getting-started">Getting started</h2> Before we can install
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Debian 8 still has some long term support life left in it. While you’re deciding on when to schedule your upgrade to Debian 9 or 10, why not give the latest version of Node.js a try? Follow these quick and easy steps to install Node.js v14.x on your aging Debian
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Already running the latest and greatest version of Debian, version 10, and want to run the latest and greatest version of Node.js? If so, follow these quick and easy steps and you’ll be off to the races with Node.js v14.x.<h2 id="getting-started">Getting started</h2> Before we can install Node.js we need to
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