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A breaking change landed on my Arch Linux system the other day, revealing itself when trying to use git. Usually something like this would wind up in the Arch Linux home page. Not this time. Booting up on a Monday…
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VPS Showdown – March 2024 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
While spring isn’t officially here yet, it’s definitely starting to feel like winter is over. More of the same this month, as we finish off the first quarter of 2024. Next month, I’m hoping to finally get some MongoDB benchmarks…
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Cannot load certificate “/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem” on Debian
Recently, my media center (an Intel NUC) started to bark about being out of disk space on my root partition. Instead of just biting the bullet and redoing the partitions, I decided to purchase a larger SSD, which led to…
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BIOS has detected unsuccessful POST attempt(s) on Intel NUC
After upgrading the SSD on my Intel NUC to a larger size, I was greeted with an error message that took me way too long to find a solution to: This problem was compounded by the fact that my wired…
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Switching to tmux windows numbered 10 and above
I try my best to not horde browser tabs. Occasionally I look up and realize that I have so many open that I now have to scroll. While I attempt to do the same with my tmux windows (and GNU…
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VPS Showdown – February 2024 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
New month with new observations when looking at DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr. Even though each provider uses the same Linux kernel version, they all have different patch numbers and dates. Vultr offering the most recent, Linode second, and DigitalOcean…
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Mocha tests hang after tests have finished
Recently, while revisiting a Node.js repository I haven’t contributed to in ages, I encountered a new problem: the Mocha tests would hang instead of exiting. When I asked about the error, it seems it was recently introduced and nobody had…
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How often should you update Arch Linux?
If you run Arch Linux, or any rolling release system with frequent updates, you have probably asked yourself how often should you be updating it. I’ve run Arch Linux off and on over the last decade and have been through…
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How to generate a JSON compile commands database with CMake
Generating a compile_commands.json file, a JSON database of compile commands, using CMake isn’t something I run into as a web developer. But as somebody that’s recently gotten bitten by the game development bug, this was one of the first things…
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VPS Showdown – January 2024 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr — Don’t call it a comeback. It’s been over a year since I decided to step away from doing my VPS Showdown posts. Recently, my curiosity was reignited. Linode was acquired by Akamai. DigitalOcean saw…