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Trigger a GitHub Pages rebuild with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch

GitHub Pages is pretty damn great. I've been using it for years now but one thing has always bugged me. If you want to schedule your posts in advance, they just never show up. Why? Because for posts to show [...]

Setting defaults for all your SuperAgent requests

SuperAgent is an HTTP request library for both Node.js and client-side JavaScript. It's our current choice here at CrowdSync for making requests because it's lightweight and easy to use. Unfortunately, out of the box, it doesn't support setting defaults on [...]

How to downgrade to the LTS Kernel on Arch Linux

I've been all over the place recently in regard to my love and/or hate of Arch Linux. I absolutely love the minimalism of the base install and the availability of packages. What I'm hating is that I've been running into [...]

Stop trying to sell me

I'm all about capitalism but I'm sick and fucking tired of constantly being met with the resistance from a sales person. Case in point, we moved this month and needed to transfer our Internet service. Pretty simple situation, nothing needed [...]

Simple cache busting with Webpack

Here at CrowdSync, we're huge fans of CloudFlare. As customers, we are leveraging the power of CloudFlare's caching mechanisms. Part of our deployment process to production involving flushing the cache via the CloudFlare API. Problem there is that only solves [...]

Stop over configuring Vim

Over the year, I've waxed and waned with the size of my .vimrc. In the early days, it was trim but so was my knowledge of Vim. Once I learned how to disable my arrow keys, I started to configure [...]

The death of the headphone jack

Apple had #courage and Google is proving they can imitate just as well as they can innovate. The headphone jack is effectively dead on cell phones as I suspect other manufacturers will start to implement this "me too" design philosophy [...]

React Draft Wysiwyg with MongoDB

We love open source software here at CrowdSync. Sometimes though, we run into issues with the software we've deemed as the "right" package for us. A recent incident has been with React Draft Wysiwyg which we decided to use as [...]

Corporate vs. Community in Open Source Software

Earlier this year I went all in on Arch Linux. I had long desired a rolling release system that would provide me with the latest and greatest software that the free and open source software community had to offer. And [...]

The easiest way to engage your readers

I blog. I have some readers. I try to be engaging. I may not always succeed in being engaging but I do try. Thing is, it's pretty freaking easy to engage with your readers. Assuming you have comments turned on [...]