With the newly released Ubuntu 20.10 upon us, and the recently released LTS (20.04), many have mixed feelings about the proliferation of snap packages in Ubuntu. In this article I'll show you how to completely remove the snap system from Ubuntu if you prefer a purely apt sytem 🙂

For organizations having public-facing service portals, there is often a need to have public content indexed, or crawled, by search engines in order for users to quickly and easily find relevant articles. Building a sitemap is one way of improving SEO by essentially announcing a given list of links that search crawlers should visit. I will walk you through setting this up in ServiceNow by using a custom Processor.

If you've ever been annoyed by the crash dialogs in Ubuntu, it's quite easy to turn them off. This article will show you the steps to get rid of the annoyances as well as thin out your system processes.

The Plymouth boot screen is part of what gives Ubuntu a look of its own. But is it really necessary? If you enjoy stripping your Ubuntu install down to the core, look no further!

Did you know that it's possible to use Service Portal widgets inside of a Catalog Item and also pass instance options into the widget? This article will show you how!

If you've ever found the need to make git commits using a different identity based on the repository, you'll be glad to hear that it's possible by using folder-specific git identity files and including them in your main .gitconfig ... it's quite simple to set up, and this guide will show you how!

Paperclip was an infamous gem in the Rails world which provided file upload capabilities for Rails projects. The gem was deprecated shortly after the release of Rails 5.2, which included a similar built-in capability known as ActiveStorage. This guide is intended to help with migrating a Paperclip-enabled Rails project to instead use ActiveStorage (specifically with Amazon S3 storage).