One thing I really do like about Ubuntu was the nice, concise little screen that you get when you SSH into a host. It was a very nice, very quick way to get a glimpse of how your machine was doing as you were logging into it, which is especially

Ok, so we’re not really going to turn your phone into a pixel, but we are going to use legit google packages to add the pixel launcher and google assistant to your phone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prerequisites: 1. Ability to use adb and fastboot commands from your command prompt. (I am

So iTerm2 is a great program, since I switched to it along with ZSH, it’s been nothing but blue skies and happiness… Until I tried to word jump with the Option key… Which doesn’t work. After being too lazy to look it up for a few months, I

How to use LetsEncrypt SSL certs with Heroku. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update May 2017: Heroku now offers free, automatic SSL certs from LetsEncrypt that are easier to manage than these are. Go Here [https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/automated-certificate-management] for more information. This guide can still help if you want to run

So Ghost has quickly become a very cool blogging platform that not only looks great but is also very quick and lean, not to mention the fact that is supports the AMP [http://www.ampproject.org] project right out of the box. On top of all of that, you can

So lately I have been digging into learning Python for work and pleasure, and probably the FIRST tool that I had to come to grips with was virtualenv. The problem was that in order to learn it, I had to either READTHEDOCS(.com) or go through a tutorial. Reading docs

Something I had been wanting to learn, but hadn’t been able to figure out was SSH tunnels. SSH Tunnels are basically a poor man’s VPN, well, minus the poor part because you need a server or receiving computer with a public address. Why do we need this? Ever

The more my web development skills evolve, I have noticed the more time I spend in a terminal window. There’s something serene about a black background with green text that takes me back to my childhood when I used to play around with a friends VAX terminal. I have

Something that plagued me when I first started working with DevOps/servers was dealing with a million different passwords for different hosts. What I quickly found was the ability to substitute password authentication with key based authentication to essentially remove the password equation and use unique ssh keys for different