Nginx Real Time Metrics

To get a better idea of how my server for Weather was handling request, I needed a way to get some insights into nginx. I wanted to calculate request per second and routes being accessed. I came across a great tool...

Ways to Improve Laravel Performance

Over the past few months my Weather Extension has grown to over 118,000+ users and averages 14 req/sec. Weather uses Laravel primarily as an api and VueJs to render the html. Speed is very important. Currently...

Zero Downtime Laravel Forge Deploys

So you’re a Laravel developer and of course you are using Forge to manage your servers. You enjoy how simple Forge makes it to deploy your applications but you may notice a few seconds of downtime when your app is...

What is Flexbox

If you are a web developer you probably have heard of Flexbox . Flexbox is becoming the new way to layout web pages and solves some of the issues when using floats. When considering using new features, you should...

Blog Post Photos

A challenge that a lot of bloggers face is choosing images for their post especially if their theme uses a feature image. Sal Ferrarello recommends new bloggers to not use featured images because choosing them often...

Top 5 Podcasts 2017

I’ve been a long time listener of podcasts while I drive and workout. It’s a great way to learn and pass the time that is usually wasted. I generally listen to tech/developer podcasts. They help me stay up-to-date on...

Amazon Drive Chrome Extension

If you use Amazon Drive you may have seen the message, “We don’t support playback of videos longer than 20 minutes.” After some research I discovered a way to get around this using javascript. I decided to create a...

Amazon Drive Review 2017

After researching cloud storage providers, I decided to use Amazon Drive . Their main selling points for me were unlimited storage for $59.99 a year and their data security and integrity. I use Amazon Drive to backup...

Google Home to Control Wireless Power Outlets

This is version 2 for my guide on how to control cheap wireless power outlets using a Google Home and a Raspberry Pi . This guide is a much better method than my first attempt using IFTT . This tutorial assumes you...

How to run a Linux Program on Startup

Here are the steps to have a program or script start on boot on a linux machine using Systemctl. I’m currently using this start several services on my raspberry pi . DigitalOcean wrote an article that goes into more...