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How to push to multiple git repos at once
A while back I fell in love with GitLab, specifically their GitLab Runners. This was at a time before GitHub had GitHub Actions, so I decided to move the majority of my git repositories over to GitLab. Fast forward a…
How to install Node.js 16 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu tends to drop a new version of their April release shortly after a new version of Node.js drops. Every other year, this Ubuntu release is a long-term support release, which has a longer shelf life in terms of support…
VPS Showdown - May 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Switching things up a small bit this month. Last month, I had introduced a "$6 VPS Showdown" as a separate post alongside my existing $5 post. This was all well and good, but best as I can figure, there's no…
Find unused npm dependencies
As much as I love to sling code, I love that we live in a world where you can stand on the shoulders of giants and easily leverage other people's hard work by way of Open Source libraries. Simply referred…
Run command instead of alias
Recently, a buddy of mine was having some issues with Homebrew after upgrading to Big Sur. After doing the Googling he could have done on his own, I came to realize that he needed to manually upgrade to the latest…
Case statements in shell script
While I do love the command-line, and will throw shell script at most problems if it's the right tool for the job, it's actually fairly rare that I write case statements. Generally speaking, my shell scripts will usually interrogate a…
$6 VPS Showdown - April 2021 - DigitalOcean - Premium Intel vs. DigitalOcean - Premium AMD vs. Vultr - High Frequency
By popular demand, I am now doing a $6 VPS Showdown to compare the "premium" offerings from both DigitalOcean (which are fairly new) and Vultr (which have been around for a while). In the past, I did include Vultr's High…
$5 VPS Showdown - April 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
This month is some what of a special one. First, DigitalOcean recently had their IPO, which helps further legitimizes them as a company. Also, this marks the first month where I'm doing both a $5 and $6 VPS Showdown. I…
Repeating Strings in JavaScript
While cleaning up some of my old notes today, specifically stuff I jotted down that would make for a good blog topic, I happened upon the topic of repeating strings in JavaScript. Things are really easy in ES6+, but if…
Uninstalling dev dependencies with npm
While looking into some deployment issues recently, I ran into some logic that was in dire need of being refactored. The logic in the build process was installing all dependencies with npm, then removing the node_modules directory, just to install…