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Disk Usage and How to Find Big Files on Ubuntu Server

If you find your server seems to be running out of disk space, the first thing you should do is figure out how full your disk really is. After that, you'll need a way to quickly zero in on which files and folders are using up the most disk space unnecessarily.

coding | 2017.06.11 05:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

How to Fix Access-Control-Allow-Origin Error in Ruby on Rails

If you're trying to make an API to allow your site's content to be accessible via JavaScript from another site, you've probably run into the error "XMLHttpRequest cannot load XXX. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'YYY' is therefore not allowed access." where XXX is the resource you were trying to fetch and YYY is the domain of the page that loaded the JavaScript that was trying to fetch XXX.

coding | 2017.06.04 05:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Korean Culture from an American Perspective: Bathing Habits

My wife is Korean, so I'm exposed to all kinds of interesting culture differences between America and Korea. I'd like to share a few of those culture differences so that people can learn more about Korean culture. I also want to show people that a lot of things we take for granted as just "how things are done" are actually nothing more than cultural norms that can and do vary from place to place.

korea | 2017.05.28 05:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

What's Using All the Memory on My Production Ruby on Rails Server?

Are you running a Ruby on Rails web app? If you are, you're probably going to run into memory problems sooner or later. In that case, you're going to want to know how to pinpoint your memory-hogging processes.

coding | 2017.05.21 05:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Don't Install the Spring Gem on Your Production Rails Server

This is a PSA about Spring and Ruby on Rails. Don't know what Spring is? Jump to the bottom of this article.

coding | 2017.05.14 05:00 | Kurt Tomlinson