Create Your Own Blog for 5 Dollars a Month
Blogging about tech is fun. Having your own blog allows you to help others, polish your skills, and maybe get you a job. Blogging on other sites such as Medium, Dev.To, etc can be really fun. I do that all the time. But having your OWN site …
Stop Fearing the Whiteboard. Conquer It.
It’s time we stopped fearing, complaining, and arguing about whiteboard coding interviews. With a solid plan, a little skilling up, and some practice, you can master the whiteboard interview. We can argue for days about the validity …
Can you use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020?
FreeBSD is a solid choice on a server, and it’s ubiquitous in the infrastructure world, but how does it hold up as a desktop machine? As a developer workstation? I found out. I’ve been considering moving my blog back to a …
Getting Started with WSL
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is awesome. It gives you the power to use Linux within your Windows system. A Linux shell can be difficult to learn, but the payoffs are incredible. You can become insanely productive with it. I encourage …
Become a React Developer in a Weekend
If you want to be a React Developer, there’s a lot to learn. You can get started in a weekend. Yes, in a single weekend, you can learn React and start developing some cool applications! Here’s how I would approach it. Friday …
Raspberry Pi 4 Dev Server
In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a Raspberry Pi 4 as a development (or testing) server. You can use this as a place to push your code and test it in a web browser. For the demo, I’ll use a React application, but with a …
What's the big deal with Pop!_OS?
Note: There’s a new version of Pop!_OS, 20.10 and I’ve reviewed it here. A new Linux distribution has been popping up in discussion circles everywhere, it’s Pop! OS. What is it and why are people so crazy about it? …
Analyzing Attacks on my Server
I was casually doing a security audit on my blog recently and decided to look a little deeper into my security logs. With a bit of Linux command line kung fu, some Golang, and Google sheets, I was able to get a pretty good idea of where the …
Trying out the Pinebook Pro - a $200 ARM Laptop
The Pinebook Pro is a $200 laptop that runs a couple of ARM processors, and it promises a lot. Does it deliver? After what seemed like an eternity waiting, mine arrived and here’s what I think. I used this thing for a few days …
The Developer Tool You Can't Live Without
I’m introducing a text / code generation tool that you will fall in love with. If you’re a developer or someone who works with text or tabulated data you need this tool. It’s called Nimble Text and it’s awesome. …
