Articles
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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…
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Ten Year Blogiversary
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…
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VPS Showdown – Distro Edition – September 2018 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. Vultr
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…
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Speed Comparison: GitHub vs. GitLab (2018)
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…
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How I GNOME or Why I Don’t Use a Tiling Window Manager
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…
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Leveling up My Home Office – Autonomous SmartDesk 2 – Home Edition Review
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…
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Left align multiple line list items
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…
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VPS Showdown – 16GB – August 2018 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
It’s that time again! This month I decided to compare some higher end 16GB servers instead of the usual $5 to $10 dollar instances. Each costing only $80 per month, these servers have a ton of bang for the buck…
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Will Vim die with Bram Moolenaar?
I really, really really want to love nvim. Yet another go with it this past week and I’m still not convinced it’s ready for me. With that, I do agree that it’s the future of vim. Development still seems to…
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FizzBuzz in TypeScript 3.0
FizzBuzz, the engineering smoke test that quickly reveals if somebody is drastically under qualified in their development abilities. Even if you’re unfamiliar with the exercise, most are able to make short work of it. It only leverages a small handful…