Environment variables are used by nearly every developer. They are great for setting parameters that change based on the environment of the system. Unfortunately, they don’t scale well. Sure, I agree, there are ways to do it, but it isn’t…

Forrest Brazeal, an AWS Serverless Hero who I follow on Twitter, recently tweeted about a #CloudResumeChallenge to build a resume site using AWS. In return, Forrest would use his network to help everyone who completed the challenge land a job.…

I’m not that old, but when I built my first website I manually copied code to an Apache server with FTP. That server was also running in my closet. This deployment process was not exactly full proof, and I experienced…

I use Jira for tracking issues and tasks on my side projects. There are two versions: Jira Server and Jira Cloud. Jira Cloud, the hosted version offered by Atlassian, is $10/month. Although $10/month will not break the bank, it’s still…

The Login Access Control Table is a file included in the Linux kernel that gives administrators the ability to allow or deny logins based on the user, group, or host associated with the login attempt. The Login Access Control Table…

This post is an ongoing series of Linux commands helpful for developers and sysadmins alike. I do not intend this series to be a deep-dive into each command, we will take a quick look at each command, it’s usage, an…

I plan to run a bunch of services on my home network. My plan is to host most of the services on a small Raspberry Pi cluster in a C4 Labs Cloudlet Case. These Pi’s run Raspbian and each one…

Have you ever been stuck in a terminal text editor or a merge commit message while your boss looks over your shoulder wondering why he hired you? No? Me either. If you get stuck in a terminal text editor, there’s…