As of today, this site is now hosted by Vultr. I've been largely happy with several years of Digital Ocean hosting on this and other sites; however, Vultr offers a similar service at a lower price, so I decided to give them a try since I was already planning on migrating to a fresh-install Ubuntu 17.10 server anyway.
I have nothing but good things to say thus far. The web dashboard is pleasant and intuitive, and spinning up was very quick.
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AdamCOT.com is the new domain for blog posts from my old site, adambeagle.com (don't go there — someone bought it and parked spam there). In addition to being moved, the site has been re-designed nearly from scratch. Read more...
One of my biggest (and admittedly nitpicky) pet peeves is when inherently subjective topics are spoken about using objective language. I'm entirely aware that others find my view pedantic, but to me there is a world of difference between "X is terrible" and "I think X is terrible." I find the distinction to be particularly important in written forums (i.e. on the internet) where the conversational, off-the-cuff tone a writer may intend for a statement is not necessarily the tone every other reader will infer.
In an attempt to make light of my obsession, I propose a new informal fallacy Read more...