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TechURLs – A neat technology news aggregator


Read tech news from the most popular tech websites in one place. — Read on techurls.com/

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pouët.net :: your online demoscene resource


pouët.net - your online demoscene resource — Read on www.pouet.net/

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Credit cards vs Pokemon cards


Ayden: I don’t want to lose my Pokémon cards

Amer: ok

Ayden: Pokemon cards are very important

Amer: how so?

Ayden: they have all the information about Pokemon. They are not like credit cards. They are better than credit cards.

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Ayden says


Ayden: After we die if plants are eating our body how will we go to heaven

Amer: Our soul goes

Ayden: And we get a new body

Amer: Sure

Ayden: Can we get different skin

Amer: Sure what color you want

Ayden: Pink

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The Highly Sensitive Parent by Elaine Aron


Could you be highly sensitive person? A highly sensitive person is someone who can get overwhelmed by various senses such as noise, smells, clutter that would not bother most people.

I got two kids and sometimes they both are crying and screaming at the same time. Their screams causes my neck, shoulders and arms to get stiff and I feel tingling or pins all over my arms. This sounds like heart attack and I am going to doctor to have it checked but quick search showed that this might be due to High Sensitivity towards noises or screams. And that’s when I learned about Highly Sensitive People aka HSP.

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It is so hard to choose


Ayden deciding his career:

“There are so many cool job, I want to be fireman, goalie, dad, police officer, monster truck driver.”

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Backup VPS


Here are simple steps to backup your VPS.

Backup MySQL database

Create a directory to store the backup files. Then run mysqldump command to backup your database.

mysqldump -u your_mysql_user -pyour_mysql_password your_database_name > /path/to/dump_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M\%S).sql

Or you run it as supersuer and backup all databases in once.

sudo mysqldump --all-databases > /path/to/dump_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M\%S).sql

To automate this, schedule a cron job that will run this command on a daily basis.

crontab -e

Insert the following line to execute the mysqldump command every day at midnight.

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A quick script to build and deploy hugo site on VPS


I had been using GitHub and Netlify for this site but lack of some features such as access to server logs finally got too much. So I decided to move this blog to my VPS.

One thing I really love about using Github is CI/CD and Github Actions. But I wanted something even simpler with less dependencies. So I decided to use a simple bash script to build and deploy the site.

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Those with ADHD. What's a hobby that never gets boring? | Hacker News


Ask HN: Those with ADHD. What’s a hobby that never gets boring? | Hacker News — Read on news.ycombinator.com/item

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Why I don't want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency | Nela Dunato Art & Design


I’m often asked if I plan to hire more people and grow my own design agency? I don’t, and in this article I explain why. — Read on neladunato.com/blog/why-wont-grow-freelance-studio-into-agency/

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