Homelab Hotness

Anyone in full-stack web development or above is familiar with virtual machines on some level. A lot of engineers or sysadmins will take up a home lab in their home, or co-location. This provides a great opportunity to test out ideas, without cost, or at least less...

Search Engine Optimization is snake oil

Today we’re talking about search engine optimization. Do not be confused, good SEO is snake oil. That said, analytics, and data driven search engine optimization is like driving into the open road with a map in your glovebox. If you lose your cell phone, and get lost,...

Repository Immegration

SASS repository vendors typically have a hard limit on the size of each and every commit you make. This script gets around that, by committing every folder recursively, one by one. This script allows you to add every folder as a single commit, so that we can get...

High Efficiency Compression & Automation

I started wondering about file compression during my start as a filmmaker. I would play around and evaluate how much footage or “time” I had left on my drive to edit video.. I’m not getting into estimation math much or at all in...

WordPress Development with Docker Containers

Part #1) Getting Started Getting started, install docker locally and/or on your web server. Generally I like to use a basic nginx server to proxy requests back to my individual docker instances (wordpress installs). You could do this with an addition docker container,...

How I build a LEMP (NGINX) server for WordPress

A few years ago I was converted; I stopped using Apache, and started loving NGINX (engine-ex). In terms of system resources, there is a major advantage. Also, in terms of administering virtual hosts, there are a number of tuning options that offer an advantage for...