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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 [...]

Uninstalling dev dependencies with npm

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 [...]

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