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A guide to working by the pool
Being a Florida Man in a past life, I absolutely crave the water. Not the beach per se, I can do without the sand. I'm talking about that sea breeze, the salt in the air, and of course the angry [...]
How to downgrade Terraform to 0.11.x on Arch Linux
The latest minor version of terraform, the 0.12.x series, dropped recently and in true bleeding edge Arch Linux fashion, I'm already running it. Thing is though, the latest release of terraform, even though it's a minor point release, does include [...]
VPS Showdown - June 2019 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Wow, pretty big news week for DigitalOcean last week, after some strongly worded accusations about ruining somebody's business. If we learned anything, it's that off-site backups are an absolute must, especially if you're serving Fortune 500 companies and/or providing SLAs [...]
Managed WordPress Showdown - May 2019 - Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
Due to my ongoing efforts on my VPS Showdown series, I'm regularly being asked if I have any recommendations on hosting for WordPress. As it turns out, I don't. Sure, you could leverage my existing reviews to pick a host [...]
Slow and steady doesn't win the race
The moral of Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare isn't a terrible one, but I'm sick of seeing it cited as a way to justify slow developer output. There's nothing wrong with being a slow developer, but saying that [...]
Explaining vs. Communicating
This isn't a post about mansplaining or anything like that. I'm simply taking about explaining things instead of communicating them. In regard to project management, explanations tend to be a reactive act. Explanations are a way to justify why a [...]
VPS Showdown - May 2019 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Changing it up a bit this month. No new providers have been added, but by request, I've moved the entire operation overseas to test out data centers in London. Incidentally, every provider covered has a data center that's actually in [...]
How to install Node.js v12.x on Debian and Ubuntu
Feels like barely a week goes by without a new release from the Node.js team. This past week v12.0.0 was released promising speed improvements. It's an important release because it's slated to become the long-term service release in October 2019 [...]
Get Rid of Your Kids
Kids, they're expensive. I don't even what to think about how much it costs to raise a child from birth to age 18. And then there's college. Hopefully they graduate and get into a decent career. Fingers crossed they aren't [...]
30 Days a Vegetarian
Never thought I would utter the words "giving up meat" and "for religious reasons" separately let alone together in the same sentence. Yes, I did give up meat for a bit, for the majority of the Lent this year. Nearly [...]