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If you’ve ever carried a balance on a credit card, you know how tempting it is to spend now and deal with it later. But you also know how painful it become

Note: Written in July 2025. Check versions as things may have changed! VM templates are a game-changer for spinning up virtual machines fast. They save you

A young leader, let’s call him Charles, recently approached me, struggling with his boss. Charles is a bright and promising individual who constantly seeks

Over the past decade, I’ve written about my unconventional journey as a developer using an iPad for web development. To me, being device-agnostic is the ul

I received a stressed text message, “Tomorrow will be our biggest sales day EVER! I sure hope the web servers are ready for it!” This may be an all too fam

Recent events have forced a lot of businesses and teams to work from home, many for the very first time. If you are leading one of these teams and you have

If you are running into GitLab storage quota limits there is a high likelihood that the usage is coming from job artifacts. These artifacts contain informa

There is not much to be found online about running a VPN inside Docker. Indeed, I do not believe many out there have thought about it, however leveraging a

The web is stateless, but often the apps we build are not. To facilitate state in web apps, PHP provides a session handling mechanism. Sessions are off by

how you how to detect mobile devices accessing a Shopify store. Shopify is a great platform for many ecommerce stores. Developing themes is simple wit

Digital Ocean has been my go to solution for hosting for many years. When the Spaces service, an S3 compatible object store, was introduceed, I jumped on b

A compromised website sucks. A compromised website that an attacker can insert code into to manipulate your visitors is even worse! Out-of-the-box, Docker