If you're a front-end web developer, you've most certainly heard of Font Awesome. To sum it up briefly, it's a font family used primarily on the web as a quick and easy icon solution. It's distributed in a wide variety of file formats for your convenience: SVG, OTF, TTF, EOT, and WOFF/WOFF2.For this tutorial, we'll be using the OpenType (OTF) format obtained from the free desktop package. (OpenType has several exclusive capabilities such as support for both Windows and Macintosh systems and expa...

DigitalOcean has been my favorite VPS hosting provider for over half a decade. Their implementation of spinning up server instances is as easy as it gets and takes merely seconds out of my ridiculous worklife. I try and take advantage of all the services/features they offer. I've increased usage and prioritization of three of these features: snapshots, backups and third-party access. If you're like me and curious as to the difference between snapshots and backups: The main difference between the...