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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…