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I jump between git branches pretty regularly, doing so from the command-line pretty exclusively. When I need to switch to another branch, I’ve always just checked it out. I even have a nice little alias, gco to save from needing…
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VPS Showdown – March 2025 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
With spring already upon us (meteorological, not quite astronomical) it was time for me to shake things up a bit with these posts. This month, my curiosity led me including UpCloud yet again. I also opted to drop the averaged…
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Operation failed saving settings in Bird Lover Feeder app
There’s no shortage of tech gadgets out there. There’s also no shortage of low quality apps to support these gadgets. One such garbage app is the Bird Lover Feeder app, which tries it’s best to support the Video Bird Feeder…
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How to move the first element to the end in JavaScript
It’s been years since I last created a carousel for a web site. Fortunately, things are a ton easier than I remember then being back in the day. Many days spent trying to get things just right, only to find…
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How to Show Full Timestamps, Including Seconds, with the ls Command
I’d say of all of the command-line applications I use, ls is in the top slot. So much so, that I have it wired up to run every time I change directories with cd. Recently, I wanted to get some…
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VPS Showdown – February 2025 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
After the last couple of months of comparing all of the nuanced instances available from DigitalOcean and Vultr, I decided to just keep things simple, and stick to comparing the the “regular” instances from everybody. If nothing else, it feels…
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New Old Tunes
Last week I went a bit off the rails blogging about not being sure what to blog about. The original intent was to finally discuss some of my new and old musical endeavors. I make a lot more music (and…
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Overwritten and Underinspired
I’ve been in a weird place with my blog as of late. I’m in a dry spell of running into technical problems to solve and discuss. Probably just jinxed it, but it’s been a few months since Arch Linux has…
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VPS Showdown – January 2025 – Vultr Cloud Compute vs. High Frequency vs. High Performance AMD and Intel
After last week’s snafu with the data, I went into this week’s post a bit more cautious. Instead of spinning up all of the instances at one time, I went ahead and spun up servers for each class individually. I…
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Never Trust, Always Verify
Hi. I’m Josh, and I have been doing VPS comparison posts off and on for over a decade. Every post I remind folks to do their own independent benchmarks and analysis. I don’t do this to encourage the usage of…