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5 tips to help you find the confidence to start blogging

Spent some time catching up with my buddy Will this past week. We both started new chapters in our lives around the same time last year and he was curious if I had any input on things he could do [...]

Minimalist git prompt

For as long as I can remember, I have had some sort of git status as part of my shell prompt. Early on I had used the canned git prompt scripts that are floating around out there. I felt they [...]

VPS Showdown - January 2018 - DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr

As promised, I am trying to get a new VPS Showdown post out on a monthly basis. I wasn't sure if I was going to do them at the beginning of each month or not, but I am glad I [...]

PHPUnit with multiple versions of PHP and HHVM on Travis CI

Recently I was updating my PHP Lorem Ipsum library in an attempt to get it testing on HHVM on Travis CI alongside the other versions of PHP I was testing against. Incidentally, the last time I had worked on the [...]

7 Minute Workout Review

Part of my 2018 goals this year is to do at least 1,000 reps of body weight exercises per month. Being too lazy to do the research on what kind of exercises I should be doing and on which days [...]

2017 Year in Review

The year was two thousand and seventeen and I made a formal decree that I would not engage in any new side projects that year. They were distracting and I already had a full plate with my existing projects as [...]

Days until Christmas in JavaScript

Time again for one of my holiday cop out posts :) Here's a couple of ways to calculate the number of days until Christmas: Vanilla JavaScript Math.floor((+new Date('2018-12-25') - +new Date()) / 86400000) Using momentjs moment('2018-12-25').diff(moment(), 'days') Merry Christmas! [...]

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