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Your shell aliases may be making you dumb

Maybe not, but mine definitely have been. Doubt this is a popular opinion but I've recently come to realization that while seemingly making me more productive, my shell aliases have the potential of making me dumb. Don't get me wrong [...]

My 2019 Goals

For the last couple of years I've done a post the weekend after Thanksgiving to outline for goals for the coming year. Last year I went pretty big with my goals, a la Grant Cardone and the 10X Rule. But [...]

VPS $3.50 Showdown - November 2018 - Lightsail vs. Vultr

Before you go commenting on the obvious, let me go ahead and clear the air a bit. First off, yes, DigitalOcean and Linode are purposefully omitted from this comparison because they lack of a $3.50 tier. Second, yes, I'm aware [...]

America: Our National Language

Hello, it's thatgirljen, the wife, here again with a guest post! You might not know, but I'm a homeschooling parent. That means I get to impart all sorts of vital information and knowledge upon our kiddo. Thankfully, there's the [...]

The most efficient way to check the last character of a string with JavaScript

Recently I was writing some code that needed to detect if a certain character was at the end of the string to determine if some additional logic should be executed. The reason for this was because the additional logic to [...]

Save time by not locking your computer

Okay, so this is one of those topics that I know may seem pretty fucking dumb, but I'm telling you, it's completely legit and isn't nearly as insecure as you are probably thinking. Yes, I'm fully aware that it's counterintuitive [...]

Using alternate SSH ports with rsync

I live on the command-line. I also use the hell out of rsync to move files around. And because I'm paranoid / security conscious, I run sshd on an alternate port to provide an additional layer of obscurity to things [...]

Kicking the wife out of the house

You might have read about me on a few occasions. I'm Jen aka thatgirljen, or here I think I'm lovingly referred to as the wife or the Mrs. My over-time job is being the mom, wife and partner. But enough [...]

Upgrade to Node.js 10.x or 11.x on Ubuntu 18.10

The latest and greatest, albeit not a long-term support release, from Canonical is here! Ubuntu 18.10, Cosmic Cuttlefish, was released this month and shipped with the current LTS version of Node.js, version 8. Actually, it's a minor revision behind at [...]

How to check if a string contains another string with JavaScript

Checking whether or not a string contains another string, or just a single character. It's a been a pretty unavoidable sanity check in my programming career. It's not quite a problem for the ages, but it comes up regularly and [...]