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Losing friends to the great beyond

Found out I had lost another friend from the wayback machine not too long ago. We were great friends back in school and kept up online fairly regularly ever since then. I knew he was damaged goods, but I had [...]

Sourcing external files from your .gitconfig

If you're like me, there's a great chance that you have not only some public dotfiles but you also have some private stuff you don't want the world to have open access to. I refer to these private dotfiles simple [...]

Set Vim tab spacing based on the type of file

Now that my buddy Justin is back to using vim, he's been flooding me with questions. Loljk, but he did ask about setting the tab spacing based on the type of file he was working with. Incidentally, this was something [...]

You should totally blog about that

Hate to say it, but I am a broken record. If it's not "OH, I actually wrote a blog post about that" then it's "that would make a great blog post, you should write about it". When I mention my [...]

Closed sourcing an open source project

Most of the time, folks are talking about making projects open source not closed. Companies use it as way to get some press and to position themselves as being altruistic by giving back to the community. I used to be [...]

The soundtrack to your feelings

I've heard it many times before, "this album is the soundtrack to my life". That's not me, or at least the album that I feel that way about has yet to be produced (or I've yet to composure it myself [...]

Making a house a home

Last Tuesday I flew back to Austin, Texas from Chicago, Illinois. During the trip I came to realize that Austin simply isn't home, not yet. It became unbearably apparent during the flight home. Quality of life is up, but we've [...]

Get the day of the week from a date in PHP

Typical of PHP, it's very easy to get the day of the week from a date, but they also provide the data in multiple format. Three in fact. The first, and arguably the most straight forward is to get the [...]

Calculate time left in day in PHP

Before PHP 5.3, finding the difference between two dates was a bit of a pain. Convert the date strings to UNIX timestamps (if they weren't already), subtract them, and then divide the result until you had each of the components [...]

$10 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean (July 2016)

Been a minute since my last $10 Showdown. Since then, Linode has turned thirteen and doubled the RAM offered on all of their servers for new and existing customers. This means that Linode is offering twice the RAM as DigitalOcean [...]