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Look, Namecheap has been good to me over the years, I won't deny it. But I've stood by, lazily watching domain prices slowly creeping upwards, until I decided it was high time to consolidate them all...

I am currently working in a remote asynchronous small SaaS company, but I have been a remote worker for many years. This requires a lot of self-management, and what works best for me is to document...

We all know the "this meeting could have been an email" meme. I had a thought along the same lines, except for side projects. You aren't a "real" developer until you've re-invented the wheel a few...

I've been burning out for a long time. Programming has been a significant part of my hobbies outside of my day job (which is also programming, duh) but the mental-ness of it all has been gradually...

Picture this: it's late in the evening and you have a couple of hours to work on a side project. You sit down eagerly, wake up the computer, open the IDE, and... things start going wrong. First,...

The quest is over - I have found the perfect PHP library for parsing RSS and Atom feeds. I present you SimplePie. My 2024 side project is a browser-based RSS reader/aggregator. This post isn't about...

I operate a $5 Linode VPS and I just upgraded Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04. I thought I would copy the young'uns and ask ChatGPT how do to it. Here's what it told me. Surprisingly it worked. But...

I don't, as a rule, pay full price for any game (with some exceptions). Like many people spoiled by Steam sales and a huge Steam library, I am patient enough to wait until a game goes on sale before...

I bought a new Mac: a 2024 M3 MacBook Air that was just released a couple of weeks ago. This replaces a 2019 Intel i9 MacBook Pro. That machine was heavy and cumbersome, and slow as molasses despite...

Freshly motivated at the turn of 2024, I started working slowly but steadily on refreshing the ChasingCode site and blog. It took a month of daily tinkering before releasing v2 on February 1st. Here...