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I'm much more comfortable using Bash over PowerShell, but there are definitely times that you need to use command line on Windows.

Besides just using a browser extension for ad blocking, I've been using Pi-Hole for years to prevent all devices on my network from getting ads, and stopping smart home devices from phoning home for telemetry and tracking.

Just a quick guide to format and partition hard drives in Linux command line that I wrote for myself a long time ago, and recently had to reference again.

Debian's non-graphical install does not give you the option to set a static IP, here's a quick guide to doing it manually on the command line.

Although I love using Netlify to host my site, for testing out sites and simple apps I have fallen in love with Surge.sh, a ridiculously simple web hosting solution that works entirely from the command line.

I sometimes use old laptops as headless servers in my homelab when I want to test something on Linux, or play around with a new distribution, and I prefer to keep them closed so they take up less space.

While I use Zsh with Oh-My-Zsh for making my Linux terminal pretty, it's not available for Windows.

I've been running a bunch of services on my home server in docker containers for a few years now.

Using the Secure Copy utility in Linux lets you securely transfer files to and from remote hosts via the SSH protocol, it comes with every Linux distribution, and it's very easy to use.

Markdown can render A LOT of characters and symbols using specific 'entities', and can do other things like render tables, so I made myself a list of common or handy, but easy-to-forget markdown hacks based off the official Markdown Guide.

Just a quick cheat sheet of basic and slightly less basic Linux commands, as well as handy keyboard shortcuts, that I maintain for myself since I can't always remember them all.

Whenever I use Vim to edit files on Linux, I need to relearn how to use it.

I wanted to style my element to look like a keyboard, and a google search took me to someone else's blog post that had a nice bit of code and invited others to steal it.

Ansible is an IT tool that enables Infrastructure as Code, letting you automate provisioning, configuration, management and deployment of services and applications.

If you find yourself using the sudo command a lot and are tired of typing your password constantly, you can make the password prompt go away by editting a single line in one configuration file.

Frameworks and libraries are great and all, but sometimes you just want to make a simple website with only HTML, CSS and JavaScript — maybe without the latter even.

I've been getting more and more comfortable working on the command line in Linux, and looked into ways to pretty it up and make it more user friendly.

One of the not-so-great parts of developing with Nuxt is the several seconds of wait time for your dev server to warm up, and several more seconds of waiting for hot-module reloading or HMR.

PrismJS is great for making code blocks look pretty, it comes with a set of several themes out of the box, and there's also many more additional themes available as a separate package on NPM and Yarn.

Netlify has many awesome built-in features, and one of them is Netlify Forms, which essentially handles the "back-end" of your forms in most cases.

The excellent Nuxt/Sitemap module can automatically generate a new sitemap.xml at each build, and you can set either static and/or dynamic routes in it's config.

Getting started learning Amazon Web Services can be a bit intimidating.

Setting up SSH keys and pushing to GitHub without needing to enter a username and password has always been a good practice, but now that GitHub is deprecating basic username and password authentication, it's past time to get this set up if you haven't alr…

I was having some issue getting this to work on a static (not SSR) site made with Nuxt, and although I read through a bunch of blog articles, most of them seemed to be missing some piece of information or other that made it not work for me.

Rsync is a very handy tool for doing high-speed file transfers between Linux hosts over a local network or remote hosts on the internet, such as EC2 instances on Amazon Web Services.

When using Linux headless, such as via SSH or with no desktop environment, accessing a newly installed hard drive (not just external USB drives, but additional internal HDDs too) is not obvious, and most people end up having to Google it.

Secure Shell is a protocol for securely connecting from one computer to another.

When I was learning Git, in order to avoid giant articles and get right to the commands I needed reminding of, I made myself a cheat sheet that plainly and succinctly explained each Git command.

How to copy SSH keys between Linux hosts and from Windows to Linux.

So you're learning web development, building things locally and only ever seeing your site or app when you run it on your computer.

A quick and dirty guide on how to easily set up a Samba share on Linux that can be accessed from Windows PCs on the same network.

I have a Sony Bravia 4K TV and it is awesome.