Tag: How-to

Why I stopped trusting Apple with my digital life

December 15, 2025

This article was also published on my LinkedIn profile here I read an article yesterday about someone losing their Apple ID, and it hit close to home. The exact same thing had happened to me 2 months prior. I purchased two gift cards to pay for iCloud and other Apple subscriptions, only to find the…

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Disposable E-mail Addresses

May 9, 2023

“Ain’t nobody got time for that.” — Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins, also a person that does not have time for that We’ve all seen this lately: you watch a YouTube video, and the video says they are making something available for you to download “for free” or make a copy of. Maybe it’s a Google…

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Migrate MySQL from native installation to docker(ubuntu)

June 12, 2021

“It worked yesterday” Please let me know in the comments if this process can be improved, or if I forgot a step. Remember to make proper backups/snapshots of your Server before proceeding with the steps below Export your Databases From the command-line, you can use mysqldump to export all your databases Docker-compose file Make a…

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Disappearing Presets in Adobe Camera Raw (December 2018 release)

December 12, 2018

With the latest release of Camera Raw in December 2018, I noticed that I could not apply my presets in Camera Raw to JPG’s anymore (both RNI and VSCO). However, they seemed to still be available for RAW files. Looking for change-logs, I came across this, from lightroomkillertips.com “The other preset related addition has to do…

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Automate the creation of nginx sites on Ubuntu

August 26, 2018

This has been adapted from a script by a DigitalOcean mod by the name of Jellingwood. Script has been modified to take PHP into account. This assumes your www directory is /var/www and that you are running PHP 7.0 Save the file as create-site.sh, and make the file executable Run the file by executing something…

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