Month: June 2024
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The Subtract Day: Why Less Code Can Lead to More Success
Background Ever feel like your codebase is a hoarder’s paradise? You’re not alone. I’ve recently picked up a habit that’s been a game-changer for my projects: the subtract day. It’s exactly what it sounds like – one day a week (or fortnight) where I focus not on adding features, but on subtracting parts of the…
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ESLint
Why Do We Even Bother with Linters? Linting is always something I think I rush through as quickly as possible in a new project. If I’m lucky, someone else has already done it by the time I join the codebase, and my biggest problem is simply making sure I get rid of all the lil…
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Understanding Nginx Part 1: The Power of Event-Driven Architecture
In the world of web servers, Nginx stands out as a powerhouse of performance and efficiency. But what makes it so special? In this first part of our three-part series, we’ll dive into the core of Nginx’s magic: its event-driven architecture. Buckle up, because we’re about to turn some complex tech concepts into something a…
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Exercise Snacks: The Secret to All-Day Energy and Productivity
Are you struggling to find time for exercise? Feeling sluggish at your desk? Reaching for that bag of chips too often? Let me introduce you to the game-changing concept of “exercise snacks” – short bursts of activity that can transform your day, your health, and maybe even your snacking habits. What Are Exercise Snacks? Exercise…
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How Important Clamping Is For Woodworking
A little story about Car-Carpentry. In Short I think about people that are skilled carpenters the same way I hear people describe software developers. Carpenters do some sort of black magic to make things we interact every day with. Most of the time the black magic they perform is so potent that we don’t even…
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How to Fix Your Sleep Cycle
In Short The Current Situation Its not unusual for me to stay up to 1am largely by accident having been gripped by some late night motivation to work on some project, normally on my computer. Its also not unusual for me to wake up somewhere around 9am and feel like right from the get go…
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Min/Maxing WordPress Hosting
The Challenge Getting as close to completely free self hosted wordpress by combining the cheapest tiers of AWS offerings. I run two WordPress sites, JonahDevs.com and AussieBulkBricks.com. I thought why not use this as an opportunity to learn somethings about self hosting WordPress. Most importantly I was bound to save money on getting as close…
