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This space is a collection of company announcements and blog posts from Reclaim Hosting staff. We’re so happy you’re here!

A handy Alfred Workflow to get just the domain name from a URL in your clipboard

A very, very, common thing that I find myself doing while working with web stuff is copying a long URL, but only needing the domain name part to paste into a terminal or elsewhere. It’s annoying to carefully select just part of the URL, and even more annoying to manually delete the parts I don’t need:
Your browser does not support the video tag. I love automating and making little shortcuts to simplify repetitive tasks like this!

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Chat with Brian Lamb: Reclaim Hosting & Open Ed Tech

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Brian Lamb about Open Ed Tech in general and where Reclaim Hosting fits into the picture. Brian is working alongside Anne-Marie Scott to develop an open course for KPU’s Professional Program in Open Education. The course they are building is called …

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Reclaim Today Episode: Instructional Tech at Reclaim

Last Monday, I got to sit down with Pilot, Taylor, and Jim to talk more in depth about our goals and ideas for Instructional Tech at Reclaim. This is such an exciting moment for us to think about what’s possible and how this professional development and community space may expand …

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Launching Instructional Tech

Last week, Reclaim Hosting reached a big milestone: launching a new Instructional Technology service. Our team has been working on this for months, and you can read my some of my thoughts on what it has meant to embed Instructional Tech into the fabric of Reclaim here. For today’s post, …

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A Tip for Quick SSH Access on Reclaim Cloud

I use SSH to access different environment in Reclaim Cloud a lot, but one thing that I like to do is use a native terminal app (I use iTerm2 on macOS) instead of the Web SSH functionality built in to Jelastic. Web SSH is amazingly convenient, but web-based terminals like this frequently lack some of the features I am used to using in desktop-based terminals like customizable keyboard shortcuts, organization features like tabs and panes1, etc.

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Consolidating Workshop Event Sites

In preparation for exciting announcements about Instructional Technology at Reclaim Hosting, I thought it was finally time to consolidate past workshop event sites. If tinkering around on the web has taught me anything, it’s that if you’re not careful about how you are setting up digital projects from the start, …

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