It’s been a while since I’ve actively engaged with a URL shortener, but recently I started to receive some text messages that contained Bitly links. The messages were phishing scams related to Coinbase, with a Bitly URL attached. Presumably, the link would take you to their site so you can
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Symbolic links, or symlinks come in handy when you need to share directories with multiple directories and not have to worry about keeping each linked instance in sync. The problem with symlinks is that not every command-line utility supports them, and often times, they do support them, but it’s not
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One of my favorite things about Arch Linux is the Arch User Repository (AUR). It’s a community maintained collection of packages for just about every damn thing you may want or need. One of my least favorite things about Arch Linux is that the Arch package manager, pacman doesn’t install
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Have had some requests for some comparisons of different plans (like the dedicated CPU offerings) and different price points, but considering it’s the last month of the quarter, I figured I would just stay the course and stick to the same comparisons as I’ve done the past few months. Next
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As many of you may already know, I tend to blog about the real-life problems that I’ve run into in the previous week or so. This makes it easy to come up with blog content, but also gives me a dedicated resource to reference if/when one of these problems pops
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A while back I fell in love with GitLab, specifically their GitLab Runners. This was at a time before GitHub had GitHub Actions, so I decided to move the majority of my git repositories over to GitLab. Fast forward a few years, GitHub has Actions, and more importantly, it seems
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Ubuntu tends to drop a new version of their April release shortly after a new version of Node.js drops. Every other year, this Ubuntu release is a long-term support release, which has a longer shelf life in terms of support and maintenance compared to their interim releases. True to form
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Switching things up a small bit this month. Last month, I had introduced a “$6 VPS Showdown” as a separate post alongside my existing $5 post. This was all well and good, but best as I can figure, there’s no reason to have them split out, as most folks probably
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As much as I love to sling code, I love that we live in a world where you can stand on the shoulders of giants and easily leverage other people’s hard work by way of Open Source libraries. Simply referred to as “dependencies”, these little code gems can save a
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Recently, a buddy of mine was having some issues with Homebrew after upgrading to Big Sur. After doing the Googling he could have done on his own, I came to realize that he needed to manually upgrade to the latest version, that was compatible with Big Sur. He said he
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While I do love the command-line, and will throw shell script at most problems if it’s the right tool for the job, it’s actually fairly rare that I write case statements. Generally speaking, my shell scripts will usually interrogate a variable or two, never too crazy or anything. With that,
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By popular demand, I am now doing a $6 VPS Showdown to compare the “premium” offerings from both DigitalOcean (which are fairly new) and Vultr (which have been around for a while). In the past, I did include Vultr’s High Frequency plan in my $5 VPS Showdowns, but it always
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This month is some what of a special one. First, DigitalOcean recently had their IPO, which helps further legitimizes them as a company. Also, this marks the first month where I’m doing both a $5 and $6 VPS Showdown. I know some of you probably want to see a comparison
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While cleaning up some of my old notes today, specifically stuff I jotted down that would make for a good blog topic, I happened upon the topic of repeating strings in JavaScript. Things are really easy in ES6+, but if you happen to still support Internet Explorer for some crazy
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While looking into some deployment issues recently, I ran into some logic that was in dire need of being refactored. The logic in the build process was installing all dependencies with npm, then removing the node_modules directory, just to install the production dependencies again. Yes, you read that right, the
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Arch Linux is still my favorite Linux distro for desktop use and once you get it set up (which may take you a few tries, if it’s your first foray) it tends to be pretty solid. That is, until you start seeing 404 error messages when you run pacman, yay,
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Last year I had sunset a project that was using both AWS’ S3 and Linode’s S3-compatible object storage offering. After pulling down some final snapshots, I wanted to delete the buckets on both services. Similar to the error you receive when you attempt to rmdir a directory with files in
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Hot on the heels of Linode offering up AMD EPYC processors, DigitalOcean has started to offer “premium” CPUs as part of their Shared CPU Basic plans. Unfortunately, this new offering comes with a slightly elevated price, clocking in at $6 per month instead of $5. This new product offering lines
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I pride myself on never phoning it in. I’m a passionate individual and I try to always bring that fire into whatever I’m doing. I’m a big believer in Extreme Ownership and giving 110%, cranking it 11, or whatever other euphemism you can throw in to describe the situation. That
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Code golfing is fun, and makes for great blog posts. The problem is, the world is flooded with posts attempting to show you how to write the best / most concise code imaginable. With that, I decided that it would be a fun challenge to attempt to take a simple
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I love Linux, but every so often something happens that makes me question whether or not my love affair since the mid-1990s is true love or just Stockholm syndrome. One such instance happened recently when, for no explicable reason, my laptop, running GNOME (on Arch Linux) decided to stop locking
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It was just last month that I had added a bit more information about the CPUs that each provider was reporting. Wouldn’t you know it, this month the Linode instances tested were reporting AMD EPYC 7542 32 Core Processors, same as UpCloud has been offering. As one would expect, this
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Recently, while working with a bunch of files, I came to realize that I needed to rename every single file. Not just that, I only needed to rename a small bit of the filename. If I was working with a document, I wound have leveraged a “search and replace” feature,
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Recently, while working on a new project, I needed to create a series of nested directories. From the command-line, it’s easy enough, just pass -p to mkdir and it will create all of the parent directories automatically. With modern versions of Node.js, specifically 10 and above, you can achieve the
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I don’t use many GNOME Extensions. Nothing against them, but less extensions means less crap to break when the latest GNOME release drops. For the most part, I opt for extensions that well maintained and not prone to breaking between major releases. Things were peachy for a while, but recently
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