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Weekly Links 04.01–04.07

How to see the solar eclipse (The Verge)
I love reading fantasy again (Cassidy Williams)
I miss human curation (Cassidy Williams)
Tobey Maguire’s Non-CGI Tray Catch Scene in Spider-Man (kottke.org)
‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family (The Guardian, via kottke.org)
Weeknotes 24:13 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Cabo Dhabi (Chris Coyier)
WordPress.com has Studio, a native app for running WordPress locally, and GitHub Deployments (Chris Coyier)
GitButler (Chris Coyier)
Tower vs. GitHub Desktop (Frontend Masters Boost, Chris Coyier)
Don’t be clever (Go Make Things)

News

You can use ChatGPT for free without a login
Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers — “After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.” I hate printers, but my Brother laser printer has been the most reliable printer I’ve ever owned.
Alaska is gonna try and use a robot to scare wildlife from around an airport
Sidney Crosby ties Gretzky’s record with 19 point-per-game seasons
Jon Stewart on AI, Lina Khan, and the other things Apple didn’t want him to say
How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
Apple MacBook Air M3 13- and 15-inch (2024) review
The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie
Microsoft reveals how much you’ll have to pay to keep using Windows 10 securely
Suika Game is finally out on iOS for North American players
The Disney Plus password-sharing crackdown starts in June
Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune 3
Sidney Crosby nominated for Masterton Trophy
Roku’s idea of showing ads on your HDMI inputs seems like an inevitable hell
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
iPhones can have emulators now so here are some great iOS controllers

Weekly Links 12.04–12.10

How to Cook Turkey With Just Chicken and Cinnamon (kottke.org)
Single Line Comments in CSS (Jim Nielsen)
Testing the Performance of Social Media Embeds (CSS { In Real Life })
Weeknotes 23:41 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Routines, rituals, and habits (Jeff Bridgforth)
When I first learned to write HTML (Jeff Bridgforth)
HTML & CSS for a One-Time Password Input (Chris Coyier)
‘The Lost Voice’ (Daring Fireball)

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Setting up a LAMP stack on DigitalOcean

I’ve hosted most of my sites on a DreamHost shared server since 2005. It has always been easy to use and well maintained. But after DreamHost increased prices in March, I decided it was time to look at what else is available.

DigitalOcean has been on my radar for quite a while due to its reputation and inexpensive cloud servers (as little as $5 per month). I can run 2 or 3 cloud servers on DigitalOcean for about the same price as my DreamHost subscription. The downside of course is that the cloud servers are unmanaged, which means potentially more work for me to maintain. I have some experience running an unmanaged Rackspace server in my previous job, so I decided to go ahead and give it a try.