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The Credit Card of Code: How Tech Debt Compounds and What to Do About It

If you’ve ever carried a balance on a credit card, you know how tempting it is to spend now and deal with it later. But you also know how…

Jul 14

Jul 14

How to Make an Awesome Ubuntu Template in Proxmox

Note: Written in July 2025. Check versions as things may have changed!

Jul 14

Jul 14

Consistency Breeds Trust. Inconsistency Closes People Off

A young leader, let’s call him Charles, recently approached me, struggling with his boss. Charles is a bright and promising individual who…

Jan 14

Consistency Breeds Trust. Inconsistency Closes People Off

Jan 14

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, 2024

Side view of an iPad Pro with a smart keyboard

Dec 14, 2024

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

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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