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I’ve been back on Chrome (by way of Chromium) since earlier this year and recently, I started to experience some extreme slowness when attempting to type in the address bar. This slowness was enough for me to file this post…
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VPS Showdown – October 2020 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
Switching things up a bit for Spooktober (doot doot) by running some benchmarks on the CPU-centric plans. Unfortunately, Lightsail and UpCloud are lacking this sort of offering, so they are omitted this month. It’s also worth noting that even though…
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How to set Redis max memory usage
Redis is one of my favorite data stores. The multitude of data types makes it flexible enough to serve as a simple caching layer (replacing Memcached) or as a full-blown RDBMS replacement if you’re willing to jump through a few…
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How to remove UHC Motion from FitBit Inspire HR
I had high hopes for the UHC Motion program. Earning some cash just by doing what I was already doing, being active. The problem for me was in terms of how much data they wanted access to. Even though the…
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reflector.service exists in filesystem (owned by reflector-timer)
I’ve been a bad Arch Linux user recently. Even though I speak highly about being able to run the most cutting edge software, I’ve been slacking and didn’t run an update for a while. This was primarily because I didn’t…
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VPS Showdown – September 2020 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Bringing things back around to the price point that I had started with many moons ago, the $20 plan. While the lower priced systems are sufficient enough for a lot of use cases, moving up to a meatier server instance…
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Looping through an array in shell script
Generally speaking, when I need to work with an array or dictionary type of variable, I tend to reach for something other than Bash / shell scripting. This primarily stems from the fact that Bash didn’t support arrays until version…
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How to comment source code
One of the biggest offenses that I’ve seen over my entire software engineering career is a total disregard for code comments. I don’t subscribe to the idea that code should be self documenting. I do believe that human are inherently…
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Splitting a string into two variables
Even though the command-line is like my second home, I still fall short in terms of being able to some basic things. This is primarily because they just don’t come up that often so when I do figure out how…
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How to get the default git branch
As the world has been shifting away from using terms like master and slave in technology, I was left wondering what the heck I was going to do about my git aliases that relied explicitly on the word master. git…