I absolutely hate using version managers like nvm and rvm. These days I don’t run any project session management like tmuxinator and tend to forget that I need to be switching Node.js versions depending on the project I am on.…
You may remember that I had said that the System76 Galago Pro’s trackpad is garbage recently. I still stand by this as I’ve been spoiled by Apple’s Magic Trackpad which for years now, they’ve nailed the user experience with. Fortunately…
Hate to start off this post somewhat negatively, but if you’re only here to leave a snarky comment about how I overpaid for a crappy Clevo machine, you can save yourself the time. That said, System76 does in fact sell…
Recently as I was setting up my new rig (System 76 Galago Pro, review to come, I promise) I came to realize that my SSH config, ~/.ssh/config had turned into absolute bloatware. There’s stuff in there from previous jobs and…
Ten. Freakin’. Years. Ten years ago today I “re-established my web presence” in the form of a blatant knock off of Daring Fireball’s design (which sadly, I couldn’t find on Archive.org’s Wayback Machine) and an abomination of an 18 sentence…
As I sat down to research which distro I would have to use to be able to start including Amazon’s Lightsail service back into these reviews, I thought “ya know Josh, you never did do a distro showdown post like…
It’s been over a year since I had last compared the speed of GitHub versus that of GitLab. In that time Github was sold to Microsoft and I’ve been adopting GitLab for all of my projects (completely unrelated to the…
You wouldn’t believe how often somebody says to me, “you should check out a tiling window manager, I think you’d really enjoy it”. I get it, I’m that guy. I still favor the command-line for everything, I use vim and…
I’m pretty terrible about setting up my office. I’m even worse at spending a few bucks on nice(r) things for said office. Because of that, I’m still running hardware from the 2011/2012 and my current home office spent a year…
I don’t claim to know all the things, and this post is definitely something that I’m pretty sure nearly everybody on the planet knew about but me. The problem I was attempting to solve recently is that I had a…