I recently started working on a few major NodeJS project, and found that installing the latest LTS release could be rather cumbersome on Linux. The application we’re developing is being hosted on Heroku, and will not be using a Docker container, and for a few reasons we would rather develop locally rather than in a container. Here is how I installed NodeJS and NPM on my Linux installations, and I found it quite easy. While this tutorial will be using Ubuntu’s apt and Arch Linux’s pacman, the process should be similar for most distributions. See here for more information about installing NodeJS and NPM via your package manager.

Christmas time is a time of joy, family, giving, and life. Unless its 2020.

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So I have always like the idea of being able to share simple snippets of code, but my first real foray into this was using PasteBin. The reason I was using PasteBin was because that is what the Minecraft mod, ComputerCraft, allowed you to download code off of the internet easily. I wrote a few programs that are still on my PasteBin. Since I found out that GitHub had a competitor in the form of GitHub’s Gists, I switched to that. I like the GitHub platform and its easy to switch between the gists and Git, and even clone the gists with git clone. I recently found HasteBin, an open source alternative to PasteBin that has a command-line tool. The command-line tool, called haste-client is extremely easy to use, only requiring you to pipe in the information you want to upload to HasteBin. You can even host your own HasteBin Server and point the haste-client to it. While I liked this, I also liked the ability to have other information about the code that I was sharing, along with being able to look at revisions like git, but haste-client is so easy to use, so I decided to create my own client for Gists.

This is a series on Python and how to correctly use Python when coming from a background in another computer language. Because of this, this will not be a slow intro into programming and it will be assumed you have a preferred text editor and are smart enough to get Python running. You can download installers and packages from their official website found here. Basic knowledge of how to use Git and how to operate a computer is also preferred.

This is a series on Python and how to correctly use Python when coming from a background in another computer language. Because of this, this will not be a slow intro into programming and it will be assumed you have a preferred text editor and are smart enough to get Python running. You can download installers and packages from their official website found here. Basic knowledge of how to use Git and how to operate a computer is also preferred.

Before I complain about my experience with Discord bots, let me preamble with this: I enjoy developing the bots. I enjoy making bots that entertain people and that everyone uses for fun and memes. I like my Discord bots, I don’t regret developing them, and I will continue development of them. I do not think Discord’s current system for bot development should be replaced, it is too prevalent and there is too many bots currently using it.

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In this tutorial, we will be setting up a Flask server using Gunicorn and NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Ever since I was 8 or 9, the idea of 3D printing seemed amazing. Objects appearing right before your very eyes, with nothing more than a computer file and a roll of plastic. Now the 3D printer that I saw didn’t really exists, as it was a piece of concept art from a book about technology I had bought at a Scholastic book fair, but when I saw it I thought it was science fiction. An idea. Nothing more than a picture in a book and an idea. I had no idea that no only was it going on at that time, but I wouldn’t have though that in the not-so-distant future I would be one of the many early adopters of the technology.

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Back when Apple didn’t try and screw over anyone with a broken iMac, back before Intel was the standard for Apple hardware, and back before Apple lost its only source of new innovation, that being Steve Jobs, there was the PowerMac, a line of computers running RISC architecture known as PowerPC, co-developed in a partnership between IBM, Apple, and Motorola. As the Power architecture is now fairly uncommon, as x86 and ARM dominate the processor market, it is now mainly used in server applications. The only “modern” OS you can run on them now is Linux, and I use that term lightly as not a lot of applications support the architecture.

Ever wanted to bring your library of home console games (PC, PS4, or Xbox One) on the go? Ever wanted to play a round or two of Call Of Duty while sitting in the school library studying for a class you never payed attention to? Well, with some basic knowledge of router settings, a half decent laptop or smartphone, and an internet connection that’s not dial-up, you can!