Justin Coffman

Category: Tech

  • VPN is not a security product

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    I’m sure you’ve seen tons of ads for VPN’s. One thing usually in common is that they advertise that it will improve your online security and that you can’t live safely without it. Here’s the thing: VPN really isn’t for security. Encryption Now, it is true that VPN does encrypt your connection. You know what…

  • RCS Explained

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    There are two main texting standards: SMS/MMS and RCS. SMS/MMS sucks. That’s why Apple created iMessage, which is by all accounts better than SMS/MMS. RCS Now, however, the modern texting standard is RCS, and has been for multiple years. RCS is way better than SMS/MMS because it has all the key features from iMessage like…

  • Use PowerShell

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    The Windows Command Processor is severely outdated. It was never meant to be used as your main command line tool in Windows after Windows PowerShell replaced it as the default in Windows 10 build 14791. Yet we all seem to collectively switch back to CMD. Why? Pitfalls of CMD Command Prompt was originally made as…

  • Tech companies that don’t get enough credit

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    People love to hate on tech companies when they get big enough. Now, to be fair, I like it too, but there are some companies who deserve some more credit. Here’s a bunch that I thought of off the top of my head. Google Yes, I know they’re now a convicted monopoly. But let’s be…

  • Learning WordPress – Part 2

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    Part 1 I almost forgot to make a part 2 but then I saw part 1 and said to myself, “Oh yeah, I should make part 2 sometime.” A few days after thinking that, now I’m writing this post. Anyways, let’s continue with: WordPress Settings What I did for this wasn’t very interesting, I just…

  • Setting up SSL

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    Continuing the story of this post, I had to setup HTTPS for my website. That means I had to go through the process of getting an SSL certificate, then installing it. Getting the certificate To get the certificate, I decided to use Certbot to get one from Let’s Encrypt. I may need to renew the…

  • URL Problems

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    I’m trying to get the right domain to go to this website. Currently it goes to my dad’s website since they share an NGINX server. My theory is that since I haven’t made the site use HTTPS yet, the browser is checking for an HTTPS version of the site which falls back to default_server, which…

  • Learning WordPress – Part 1

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    With making a blog means choosing something to make a blog with, and a book my parents got me said that WordPress is the best option so my decision was made. Docker I’ve been using Docker for around a year now and I love it. So what if it’s not open source? It’s the best…