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Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 5: The Conclusion
If you're like me, you enjoy the journey more than the destination. If you're just tuning in, you should probably catch up. Part 1: The Motive Part 2: The Distro Part 3: The Desktop Environment Part 4: The Development Environment [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 4: The Development Environment
New around here? You may want to catch up: Part 1: The Motive Part 2: The Distro Part 3: The Desktop Environment Before switching to OS X, I was running Ubuntu codename whatever and had my local system built out [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 3: The Desktop Environment
In case you missed it, here's the story thus far: Part 1: The Motive Part 2: The Distro Before I discuss my current desktop environment, let's rewind to 2012 before I had switched to OS X. At the time, I [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 2: The Distro
In case you need to catch up, here's the story thus far: Part 1: The Motive Caught up? Solid. Okay so at this point I have been running Linux again full-time for two weeks. There have been moments of needing [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 1: The Motive
This post is half a decade in the making. On June 15th, 2012 I took the plunge and switched from Linux to Mac OS X. 1,585 days later, I am writing to let you know that I have seen the [...]
Reading a specific line from a file with PHP
As I've been building a system that is driven primarily by CSV files (because it's easier to use Google Sheets than it is to build out an admin section) I've had to get creative. Recently I found myself working with [...]
Invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature) during pacman sync / install
I've been using Linux off and on for the last 20 years. I'm currently moving back to Arch Linux after a short stint on OS X (now MacOS). I am quite the Arch noob but I've been completely taken by [...]
How to pickle peppers
A few months back I wrote a post about making sauerkraut. It was a bit wordy considering how simple the process really is. Along with kraut, I have been pickling [hot] peppers. At any given time, I have at least [...]
Convert Mongo BSONDocument to an array in PHP
Ran into a scenario this weekend where I needed to take a sub-document from Mongo but I needed it in an array in PHP. Reading the data from Mongo with PHP was simple and won't be discussed. What I'd like [...]
Programming the same thing in multiple programming languages
Recently I set out on an interesting journey. I wanted to build programming libraries for my API, HolidayAPI. Some of the languages I know like the back of my hand. Others, have never even touched them before. Before you start [...]