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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 [...]

How to pull from git

Had a peculiar request on one of my posts asking for a tutorial on how to pull from git. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure if the comment was just trolling or what, but figured may as well do [...]

How to make sauerkraut

Sauerkraut is one of my favorite things to make. Incidentally, it's one of the easiest things to prepare. It's always an exercise in extreme patience. As they say, "it's ready when it's ready". Before we talk about it being ready [...]

How to read more

I never completed a single assigned book while in school. Up until a few years ago, I averaged reading only two books per year. This year, I'm on track to read at least thirty-five. Double what I read the year [...]

Leveraging the power of the right-command key in OS X

Not too long ago I was singing the praises of creating hotkeys to switch between apps, a method I consider to be far superior to using CMD+TAB and having to cycle through open apps. I mentioned taking things a step [...]

Jazz Sucks

I hate it, I just fucking hate it. But like most things, I'm always willing to give it another shot from time to time. June 2016 for me, will be Jazzy June. I plan to wholly emerse myself in jazz [...]