Blue Bottle Espresso Parameters
Blue Bottle seems to have removed the parameters for some of their popular espressos. Luckily, I took screenshots years ago!
System Administration
LatestHow to Setup a Fast and Secure WordPress 5.0 – Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, PHP 7.3, MySQL 8.0, and More
Just going to go straight into the commands. This assumes you’ve configured your DNS and started a Digital Ocean droplet and have created a root-empowered user. If you’re looking to start using Digital Ocean, get...
Cloud Computing
LatestHow to Expand a Boot Disk on a GCE Instance
Google now allows you specify the size of your boot disk larger than 10GB when you create your instance. In any case, if you need to resize your boot disk for any reason, these are the steps I followed. Here I’ve attached...
Rails, Ruby
LatestRuby Classes, Modules, Mixins, and Inheritance
Classes Classes are one of the building blocks of object-oriented programming. Think of them as blueprints for creating objects. When we just throw variables and methods inside a Ruby file, it’s very loosely associated....
MySQL / Percona
LatestMySQL Quick Fix – SSL connection error: socket layer send error (Mysql2::Error)
Assume you’ve already verified your certificates and keys on the sever side (checksum should be the same): openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in mycert.pem openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in mykey.pem mysql> show variables like...
Docker Tutorial 2020 – Version 19.03.8
There are headaches and heavy costs associated with hypervisor virtualization. There was a time I...
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Fastest Portable Hard Drives 2020
The Contenders Toshiba HDTB420XK3AA Canvio Basics 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0WD 4TB...
Read MoreHow to Warm Up FastCGI Cache on Your WordPress Site
Sometimes we run blogs that are updated frequently and at predetermined intervals. It’s useful to warm up the cache after content has changed. I’ve used plugins but they don’t seem to work well. I’ve...
Read MoreNetgear X4S vs. Asus RT-N66U Dark Knight vs. Trendnet TEW-680MB
Just spent the day digging through a box of old gear to relegate for network extension duties. These tests were done in bridge mode from about 20 ft from the main router through 2 walls.
Read MoreWhen to Define Your Own Custom Ruby Iterator?
General rule of thumb is if you have a collection of objects, you should build custom iterators so that users could readily use them like they do with other collection such as Array, Hash, File, etc. The easiest way to do this...
Read MoreHow to Write Your Own Iterators in Ruby
Generally if your class has an array/hash, sometimes you don’t want to expose the implementation of those collections outside of the object. Creating your own iterator will make your object easier to use. class Headphone...
Read MoreHow Ruby Local Variables Interact with Blocks and Their Surrounding Scope
Sometimes the scope of a local variable is a bit confusing when working with blocks. For example, the following will result in an “undefined local variable” for variables “x” and “bacon”...
Read MoreHow Unicode Plays a Part in Your Software – Encoding & Character Sets
Introduction There was a time when you could determine the size of a file by counting the number of characters it had. One character equates to one byte. Simple. In fact, it was how I found the office perpetrator who printed out...
Read MoreHow to Setup Let’s Encrypt on Apache2 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
After years of having to manually renew certificates (I’ve used StartSSL in the past), Let’s Encrypt is finally live and will allow you to automate this process by installing an agent and a cron job. Here I’m...
Read Moregoogle api client no such file to load
Getting the following error when running annotate for my models …/activesupport-4.2.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:274:in `require’: No such file to load — google/api_client (LoadError) Try downgrading...
Read MoreError installing json gem
An error occurred while installing json (1.8.3), and Bundler cannot continue. Install this package first. sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev running the following ubuntu 14.04 ruby 2.2.3 rvm...
Read MoreError installing ImageMagic or rmagick gem
Install the following ubuntu packages first sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagickwand-dev running ubuntu 14.04 rvm 1.26.11 ruby 2.2.3
Read MoreHow to Revert/Undo Changes in Git
Generally there are three ways of reverting changes: checkout revert reset Checkout If you just need to revert specific files, you could run git checkout to retrieve an exact version. In the below example, I wanted to revert the...
Read MoreHow to Setup a DigitalOcean Provider on Vagrant
If you haven’t done so, install Vagrant for your OS here. vagrant plugin install vagrant-digitalocean mkdir vagrant_project cd vagrant_project vagrant init Generate your key pairs. If using Windows, use puttygen. In...
Read Morerails console hangs
“rails c” hangs with no error messages and no response. solution: stop spring using the following command “spring stop” or “bin/spring stop” spring will automatically start back up when you...
Read More“But it Works on My Box” – A Case for Vagrant
When I need to quickly spin up a server to do testing, debugging, development, etc., I usually spin up VirtualBox and build a VM based off a cloud image file from scratch. It is a tedious process but I figured it’s easy...
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