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How to Show Full Timestamps, Including Seconds, with the ls Command

I'd say of all of the command-line applications I use, ls is in the top slot. So much so, that I have it wired up to run every time I change directories with cd. Recently, I wanted to get some [...]

VPS Showdown – February 2025 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr

After the last couple of months of comparing all of the nuanced instances available from DigitalOcean and Vultr, I decided to just keep things simple, and stick to comparing the the "regular" instances from everybody. If nothing else, it feels [...]

New Old Tunes

Last week I went a bit off the rails blogging about not being sure what to blog about. The original intent was to finally discuss some of my new and old musical endeavors. I make a lot more music (and [...]

Overwritten and Underinspired

I've been in a weird place with my blog as of late. I'm in a dry spell of running into technical problems to solve and discuss. Probably just jinxed it, but it's been a few months since Arch Linux has [...]

VPS Showdown - January 2025 - Vultr Cloud Compute vs. High Frequency vs. High Performance AMD and Intel

After last week's snafu with the data, I went into this week's post a bit more cautious. Instead of spinning up all of the instances at one time, I went ahead and spun up servers for each class individually. I [...]

Never Trust, Always Verify

Hi. I'm Josh, and I have been doing VPS comparison posts off and on for over a decade. Every post I remind folks to do their own independent benchmarks and analysis. I don't do this to encourage the usage of [...]

KNULLI won't connect to Wi-Fi

Like many, I have fallen down the rabbit hole of retro gaming handhelds. I have amassed a small collection of mostly Anbernic devices. I've logged a decent amount of time on a few of them, but my favorite "game" is [...]

What do I need to claim an artist on Spotify?

I've been through this process a handful of times now. While I'm not a big fan of the typical process, I understand it. More so, after a few tries, I feel like I really have it dialed in, even if [...]

How to set dock icon size on macOS from the command-line

I don't particularly love the dock on macOS. In fact, I don't particularly like docks at all. I don't use them to launch apps, and I find it abysmal that many macOS apps use the dock to communicate status, new [...]

How to unstow with GNU Stow

I love simple but powerful tools. Like most of the GNU packages, stow does one thing and it does it really well. What's it do? It stows files, of course!" My primary use case for GNU Stow is in my [...]