ZSH is the new shell hottness and like any good tech, people have now made a way to customize it. While this is easier on some platforms more than others, Ubuntu was slightly more complicated to me. As a result, I made some instructions: First and foremost, make sure everything

Now that I am rolling Kubuntu as my daily, I’ve had a chance to experience some of the more nuanced bugs that seem to plague different types of hardware at different times. With all of the other bugs that crop up, none was more annoying to me than the

The CLI has become an essential tool for most all developers as of late. From debugging complex code issues to simply managing a source-controlled project with Git, few people can escape the world that is the black-screen with green text.

I recently switched my main desktop environment from Ubuntu to Kubuntu which uses KDE instead of Gnome. KDE by default assumes that you are using BASH as your shell, however since I use ZSH, I ended up missing a few paths. Most specifically, my installed SNAPS were not easily launch-able

If you are running Selenium or other kind of application testing platform, you may have a need to install the PhantomJS package to make it work properly.  Unfortunately, if you are on Ubuntu, this isn’t quite the straightforward install most other apps are. Prerequisites * Must be running Ubuntu * Must

AppImages are a really nice way for developers to release applications for multiple platforms more quickly.  The problem however was that if you were like me, all of those wonderful AppImage files lived in a directory that I had to go to whenever I wanted to open them.  That is

MySQL databases are generally pretty good about dealing with large size tables with indexes, however sometimes it’s good to know just how large a DB is so you can optimize it if necessary. In a lot of cases it’s not very easy to just look up the size

Linux server security is always a good topic of discussion that everyone seems to have a different opinion about. I have recently been building a number of new production servers which are all running Debian 9, and here are some of the steps that I have taken to make sure

I have recently made the switch from OSX as my daily to Ubuntu Gnome and it has been largely successful, thanks in no small part to the Lenovo X240 laptop it’s running on. The one thing that I couldn’t do without is Photoshop, and with my inability to