Speed Up Key Presses (macOS)

A recent episode of Syntax , the podcast about web development from Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski , a tip was mentioned on speeding up key presses on macOS. I have always been annoyed at how slow the cursor moves when...

Chrome Extension Keyboard Shortcuts

Wanted to share a quick tip on using keyboard shortcuts to activate chrome extensions. Up until now it never occurred to me to use a keyboard shortcut to activate an extension, but thanks to a user of my weather...

Backup Multiple Laravel Sites

If you’re like me and use Laravel Forge to host multiple websites on a single Digital Ocean server, then you may have run into the issue where you need to backup all the sites on your server. You could run Spatie...

Text Replacement iOS

Wanted to share a quick tip that I use every day on my iPhone. If there is a sentence or phrase you type often, you should turn this into a text replacement. For example, I use @@ which is replaced with my email...

Nginx Split Test A/B

Have you ever wanted to split test multiple pages on your website? You could use a WordPress plugin called Simple Page Tester but you are limited to testing two urls at a time. After some searching, I came across a...

Side Project Tech Stack

I want to start this post by saying this is my preference on the frameworks and technologies that I use for most of my apps. Depending on your experience and goals you should experiment to see what works for you. For...

Digital Ocean New Droplets 2018

Digital Ocean just came out with new droplets and prices for 2018 . For $5 a month, you can get a server with 1GB of ram and 25GB of solid state drive which is great for most web apps such as blogs or even weather...

Copy SSH key to Clipboard

Copying my ssh key to my clipboard is always something I have to google. It’s different depending on operating system and depends on what you have installed. This is a short guide on how to copy your ssh key to the...

Wireless Temperature Sensor

My goal of this project was to track the temperature in different rooms in my house using multiple temperature sensors to send the data back to a raspberry pi and have the data stored historically so I could display...

Weather.io

I’ve been working on a new site called Weather.io. Besides being on an awesome io domain name thanks to park.io , it’s a simple site that displays a weather-related background image and the current weather...