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By Trent Engler

Working in tech; dreaming about tiki bars and tropical sunsets...

Serverless vs. Containers: How Serverless Will Win
datamation.com
Serverless will dominate in cloud computing, but containers will impact the cloud as well.
Test Suites
Postman really supercharges your API
dev.to - Mike Sedzielewski
It’s been a while since I used Postman for the last time. Now that we had a need to test one endpoint quickly I decided to tap into it again. What …
How to AirDrop from Mac to iPhone or iPad
osxdaily.com - Paul Horowitz
Did you know you can use AirDrop to send pictures, videos, and files from a Mac to an iPhone or iPad? AirDrop between the Mac and an iOS device is …
Troubleshooting iOS 11 Problems
osxdaily.com - Paul Horowitz
Most users are able to install iOS 11 onto an iPhone or iPad without any incident, and they are ready to enjoy the best new features available in the …
How to Force Restart iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus
osxdaily.com - Paul Horowitz
Apple has changed how to forcibly restart an iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, with the device now relying on a sequence of three button presses to …
How to Make iPhone Camera Shoot JPEG Pictures in iOS 11
osxdaily.com - Paul Horowitz
The iPhone camera will now default to taking pictures in a new HEIF format, rather then JPEG. This camera formatting change to HEIF came in iOS 11, …
Tech Tip: How to Force Restart a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
macsales.com - Steve Sande
I have a very embarrassing admission to make: after 33 years of being a Mac user, I was completely stumped when I recently tried to force quit and …
How to Download file from Server using SSH
tecadmin.net
SSH is the most secure protocol for accessing servers these days. It provides the highest level of data communication security. The SCP (Secure Copy) …
How to Create and Extract Zip Files to Specific Directory in Linux
tecmint.com - Aaron Kili
In one of our several articles about the tar command, we showed you how to extract tar files to a specific or different directory in Linux. This …
The Best Listens of Summer
medium.com - Josh Quittner
My 7 favorite podcasts One of the surprise hits of new media these days is podcasts. Many of the most popular ones are descendants of the 2014 hit …
How to Move Home Directory to New Partition or Disk in Linux
tecmint.com - Aaron Kili
On any Linux system, one of the directories that will surely grow in size has to be the /home directory. This is because system accounts (users) …
How to Install Samba on Ubuntu for File Sharing on Windows
tecmint.com - Aaron Kili
Samba is a free/open source and popularly used software for sharing files and print services between Unix-like systems including Linux and Windows …
Glances - A Real Time Monitoring Tool for Linux
tecadmin.net
Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python. This is a better alternative to the top and htop monitoring tools. This tool …
10 Useful Tips for Writing Effective Bash Scripts in Linux
tecmint.com - Aaron Kili
Shell scripting is the easiest form of programming you can learn/do in Linux. More so, it is a required skill for system administration for …
Bash on Windows 10 goes beyond Ubuntu and gets support for Fedora and SuSE, too
TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois
One of the biggest surprises at Microsoft’s Build developer conference last year was that the company was building support for the Bash shell on top of an Ubuntu-based Linux subsystem right into Windows
10 Useful ‘locate’ Command Practical Examples for Linux Newbies
tecmint.com - Ravi Saive
One of most obnoxious experiences that most new users of the Linux platform usually face is the inability to find the simplest and yet more effective …
How To Install/Upgrade Google Chrome 67 on Ubuntu & LinuxMint
tecadmin.net
Google Chrome 67 Released. It is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc. It is most popular browser and used by millions of users. It …
Functional Programming in Javascript (Part 2)
medium.com - yyyk
This article is the sequel of this. Trampoline and Thunk In the recursion section of part 1, there was stack size problem. To solve this, I would like …
Ubuntu 17.04: The bittersweet Linux release
ZDNet - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Ubuntu 17.04 is another solid desktop release, but Unity, its default desktop, is being retired. This new distribution's real improvements are in its …
bd – Quickly Go Back to a Parent Directory Instead of Typing “cd ../../..” Redundantly
tecmint.com - Aaron Kili
While navigating the file system via the command line on Linux systems, in order to move back into a parent directory (in a long path), we would …
Azure vs. AWS: Which One Is Better?
dzone.com
We’ve used Azure for nearly five years at Stackify; in fact, we built Retrace with Azure in mind. But is Azure the right cloud for you? The battle …
Software Development
Setting up a Shiny Development Environment within Linux on Windows 10
hanselman.com - Scott Hanselman
While I was getting Ruby on Rails to work nicely under Ubuntu on Windows 10 I took the opportunity to set up my *nix bash environment, which was …
How to Set Up Your Own Completely Free VPN In the Cloud
Lifehacker - Thorin Klosowski
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a great way to add security to your browsing while also preventing snoopers (including your internet service …
Ubuntu 17.04 Release Date and Features
tecadmin.net
Ubuntu 17.04 Released. Finally Ubuntu 17.04 has arrived with its latest features. The support for Ubuntu 17.04 will be ended on January 2018. For …
Advanced web scraping in Python
medium.com - Engine Bai
I moved my article to here, please take a look. Recently, I just created and open-sourced an unofficial Medium API, called PyMedium, which provides …
pyDash – A Web Based Linux Performance Monitoring Tool
tecmint.com - Ravi Saive
pydash is a lightweight web-based monitoring tool for Linux written in Python and Django plus Chart.js. It has been tested and can run on the …
Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
Reuters - by Anna Irrera
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides his time between his family – he has 32 grandchildren and great-grandchildren – and helping U.S. companies avert crippling computer
Ubuntu Unity Versus Ubuntu GNOME
Lifewire - by
GNOME is one of the oldest desktop environments. Until Ubuntu 11.04, it was the default desktop environment for Ubuntu. Then the Ubuntu developers …
Python - Check If File or Directory Exists
tecadmin.net
The Python os.path module is used for common file or directory pathename’s manipulations. The method isfile() of this module is used to check if any …