Blog

Writing about technology, web development, bitcoin, cocktails, and more.

Showing 16 posts inLinuxClear ×

Illustration showing a transition from the LAMP stack to a modern Next.js-based web stack with a 20-year timeline and decision path.

From LAMP to the Modern Web: Rebuilding My Stack After 20 Years

April 4, 2026 | 7 min read

After 20+ years of building on the LAMP stack, I decided it was time to dive deep into something modern and useful. This is the story of rebuilding heathschweitzer.com from WordPress to a Next.js, Prisma, and TypeScript stack — including a WordPress content migrator, a custom CMS, and a production deployment on CloudPanel. What I learned, what surprised me, and what transferred directly from two decades of PHP experience.

LinuxTechnology

Kernels

August 17, 2017 | 1 min read

Ubuntu: display current active kernel: uname -r display a list of all installed kernels: dpkg --list | grep linux-image remove old kernels (keep 2-3 previous versions for rollback purposes): sudo…

Linux

~/.bash_aliases file

November 18, 2016 | 1 min read

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)" alias ls='ls…

LinuxMac

~/.bashrc file

November 18, 2016 | 2 min read

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc) # for examples # If not running interactively, don't do anything case…

LinuxMac

Working with aliases and the alias command

November 11, 2016 | 2 min read

An alias is simply a reference to a string, but it makes it possible to shorten a command (or set of commands) inclusive of any options for the command. Why use aliases? To save time.…

LinuxMac

How to backup a MySQL database from the command line

November 1, 2016 | 1 min read

Simple command line options to backup a MySQL database: backup a database locally using mysqldump, date and time in the filename, and compression mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE | gzip -9 >…

LinuxTechnology

Migrating a WordPress database to a new host name

August 12, 2014 | 1 min read

process steps: export the database updated the static entries of the hostname in the database import the database commands: mysqldump -u _USERNAME_ -p _DBNAME_ > _DBNAME_.sql cat…

LinuxMacTechnology

Updating git submodules

May 15, 2014 | 1 min read

If you want to update git submodules, you will need to do this directly in your submodules directory # download the submodule git submodule add https://user@repourl/reponame.git submodule_dir/ #…

LinuxMac

Install Node.js and NPM on Ubuntu

April 30, 2014 | 1 min read

Install Node.js from Git repository and NPM on  Ubuntu. Make sure you have the necessary software sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev…

LinuxMac

Linux command line to test mail() function

February 11, 2014 | 1 min read

Linux command to test mail() function: echo "test email body." | mail -s "test email subject" user@domain.com Instructions: replace "test email body" with the body copy of your test email replace…

Linux

Page 1 of 2Older posts →