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Building a Device-Agnostic Web Development Setup 2025 Edition: My Journey with an iPad

Over the past decade, I’ve written about my unconventional journey as a developer using an iPad for web development. To me, being…

Dec 14

Side view of an iPad Pro with a smart keyboard

Dec 14

How to get started with your own uptime monitor with Docker, in minutes

I received a stressed text message, “Tomorrow will be our biggest sales day EVER! I sure hope the web servers are ready for it!”

Dec 10, 2022

How to get started with your own uptime monitor with Docker, in minutes

Dec 10, 2022

4 Quick Tips to be a Better Remote Manager

Recent events have forced a lot of businesses and teams to work from home, many for the very first time. If you are leading one of these…

Nov 4, 2022

4 Quick Tips to be a Better Remote Manager

Nov 4, 2022

How to Clean Up GitLab Artifacts

If you are running into GitLab storage quota limits there is a high likelihood that the usage is coming from job artifacts. These artifacts…

Oct 27, 2022

How to Clean Up GitLab Artifacts

Oct 27, 2022

How to build a VPN client as a Docker container

There is not much to be found online about running a VPN inside Docker. Indeed, I do not believe many out there have thought about it…

Sep 9, 2022

How to build a VPN client as a Docker container

Sep 9, 2022

How I set up a new Mac in minutes with a simple Homebrew script

Setting up a new machine used to be a huge chore that I did not look forward to, however in the Apple world there is a great tool called…

May 31, 2022

May 31, 2022

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Highly Performant PHP Sessions with Redis

The web is stateless, but often the apps we build are not. To facilitate state in web apps, PHP provides a session handling mechanism…

Mar 29, 2021

Highly Performant PHP Sessions with Redis

Mar 29, 2021

How to Detect Mobile Devices Accessing a Shopify Store

Serving different content to different devices is standard practice on the internet. Every platform does it a bit differently and in this…

Jan 25, 2021

How to Detect Mobile Devices Accessing a Shopify Store

Jan 25, 2021

How to Make a Domain Proxy for Digital Ocean Spaces

Digital Ocean has been my go to solution for hosting for many years. When the Spaces service, an S3 compatible object store, was…

Jan 16, 2021

How to Make a Domain Proxy for Digital Ocean Spaces

Jan 16, 2021

How to Secure Docker Containers with a Read-Only Filesystem

A compromised website sucks. A compromised website that an attacker can insert code into to manipulate your visitors is even worse…

Jan 10, 2021

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Jan 10, 2021

Ben Lobaugh

Ben Lobaugh

Director of Engineering at Mindsize. 20+ year technology veteran. Providing leadership insights, mentorship, and coaching to new and existing leaders.

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