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VPS Showdown - 16GB - August 2018 - DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr

It's that time again! This month I decided to compare some higher end 16GB servers instead of the usual $5 to $10 dollar instances. Each costing only $80 per month, these servers have a ton of bang for the buck [...]

Will Vim die with Bram Moolenaar?

I really, really really want to love nvim. Yet another go with it this past week and I'm still not convinced it's ready for me. With that, I do agree that it's the future of vim. Development still seems to [...]

FizzBuzz in TypeScript 3.0

FizzBuzz, the engineering smoke test that quickly reveals if somebody is drastically under qualified in their development abilities. Even if you're unfamiliar with the exercise, most are able to make short work of it. It only leverages a small handful [...]

$5 VPS Showdown - July 2018 - DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr

Bit late with this month's post, been a crazy month for me! Since last month, DigitalOcean has released Projects which doesn't really affect these benchmarks, but is notable because the concept of grouping servers has been something that both Linode [...]

Keeping up with what's next

Had an interesting conversation today with a buddy of mine. He was telling me about how he's mastered gulp and right on cue, I asked "why not webpack"? No, I didn't triage that into a lecture about how superior Arch [...]

Six months with the 7 Minute Workout

January 1st, 2018, hung over from New Year's Eve, I started doing the 7 Minute Workout. For those unfamiliar, the 7 Minute Workout is a series of 13 exercises that are done for 30 seconds each with a 10 second [...]

Encouraging entrepreneurial spirit in kids

Most entrepreneurs share similar stories about their earliest entrepreneurial adventures from their youth. These stories are often about selling something to their classmates and/or door to door in their neighborhood. Don't think I've ever heard one about selling lemonade though [...]

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