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Kindle Unlimited isn't worth it

I went back and forth for a while before pulling the trigger on Kindle Unlimited. What finally convinced me to sign up for the trial (and subsequent subscription) was the book Slicing Pie: Fund Your Company Without Funds. It's about [...]

Empower your child by letting them cook dinner

Last Sunday was one of the busiest days I have had in a while. So busy that I asked my 10-year-old daughter to make dinner. I'm not talking about having her make us sandwiches or even just nuking a can [...]

Adding comments to JSON

From time to time I've wanted to be able to comment out lines in a JSON file. This typically comes up when I'm making a butt load of changes to package.json and I want to keep a visual history as [...]

Two weeks with MeetEdgar

If you follow me on any social media channels, especially Twitter, you probably noticed an untick in my posting volume. No, I haven't been hacked. Admittedly, I'm pretty bad about posting my blog posts on the various social networks I [...]

How to install Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp on Android today

I must have been under a rock, but I only heard about a new Animal Crossing game this week. Then I was sad to hear that it wasn't out yet. Then I was excited to hear that it was actually [...]

oci runtime error after upgrading Docker on Arch Linux

Sat down to knock out some blog posts recently and when I ran docker-compose up to get my blog up and running locally I was faced with a pretty aggressive error: % docker-compose up Starting joshtroniccom_blog_1 ... Starting joshtroniccom_blog_1 .. [...]

Configuring Jest to show code coverage for all of your files

Jest is a great tool. It's fast, actively maintained and has been working well for us with both our front-end and back-end systems. Simply put, Jest helps us make CrowdSync better and more stable. Out of the box though, code [...]

Switching from tmux to GNU Screen

I'm was a bit late to the terminal multiplexer game. I had used GNU Screen on servers here and there to be able to keep tabs on long running processes but it wasn't until this past year that I decided [...]

Upgrade to Node.js 8.x on Ubuntu 17.10

Ubuntu 17.10, codenamed "Artful Aardvark" was released yesterday... ... with Node.js v6.11.4 #sadtrombone It could be worse though, Debian 9.x (Stretch) still ships with Node v4... but I'll save how to remedy that for another post ;) Now, I can't [...]

Switching to Vim from Neovim

I've been a Vim user for the better part of the last 20 years. I'm also not blind to the fact that there are other editors out there. I'm usually the first person to download a copy of some new [...]