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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! [...]
VPS Showdown - December 2017 - DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
It's about that time again, folks! Based on the feedback I've received on previous "VPS Showdown" posts, I've changed a few things up! First off, I'm offering up data on both the $5 and $20 price points to paint a [...]
Upgrade to Node.js 8.x on Debian and Ubuntu
Not too long ago I wrote a post on how to upgrade to Node.js 8.x on Ubuntu 17.10. Post has done well but it's generated quite a few inquiries on if it would work on other versions of Ubuntu, specifically [...]
Debian is stable
I can hear you now... "No shit Josh! Debian's one of the most stable Linux distros [sic] they even main their main branch 'stable'!!~!" In my quest for bleeding edge software, specifically, the latest version of Gnome, I lost sight [...]
My 2018 Goals
Around this time last year, I decided that I would set out on an overly ambitious adventure to be more productive and to accomplish a bunch of shit in 2017. Things turned out pretty well, but this isn't a recap [...]
Not all cables were created equal
We've all heard the horror stories. Somebody gets a new monitor and it sorta works. Everything powers on, they get a picture but they can't seem to get the monitor to go up to the advertised max resolution. Usually these [...]
I am a freeloader
There, I said it. I am a dirty fucking freeloader. At least according to one of my fairly long time subscribers to my mailing list. Seems that last week's launch announcement about my project CrowdSync ruffled at least a couple [...]
Before you send another email, read this
Okay, that title was click bait, I know. Thing is, I wanted to get as many eyes on this as I could and I wasn't sure how many people I'd piss off by doing "another boob post" or something similar [...]
[FIXED] Radeon kernel modesetting for r600 or later requires firmware-amd-graphics
Since I have been thoroughly disappointed with the stability of Arch Linux on my iMac recently, I decided to get my ass back over to Debian. What caught me off guard when I finished the install and rebooted was an [...]