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Unlock user after too many failed sudo attempts
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 [...]
How to push to multiple git repos at once
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 [...]
How to install Node.js 16 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
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 [...]
VPS Showdown - May 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
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 [...]
Find unused npm dependencies
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 [...]
Run command instead of alias
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 [...]
Case statements in shell script
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 [...]
$6 VPS Showdown - April 2021 - DigitalOcean - Premium Intel vs. DigitalOcean - Premium AMD vs. Vultr - High Frequency
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 [...]
$5 VPS Showdown - April 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
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 [...]
Repeating Strings in JavaScript
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 [...]