Colin Bartlett

Colin Bartlett @cbartlett

About: I help IT teams monitor the cloud with StatusGator. Vim user and author at VimTricks.com

Location:
New York, NY, USA
Joined:
Apr 25, 2020

Colin Bartlett
articles - 25 total

10 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools for 2025

As cloud adoption becomes nearly universal, with 96% of companies utilizing at least one public cloud...

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10 Best Help Desk Software for K12 in 2025

Schools face unique challenges when choosing their K12 helpdesk software, just like with any IT...

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Web Application Monitoring: Best Practice

Running a web app that brings revenue means you must keep it up and running smoothly. When things go...

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How IT Status Pages Can Reduce Support Ticket Burden – A Proactive Approach for 2025

Modern IT teams rely heavily on a growing list of cloud services, APIs, and third-party SaaS...

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7 SaaS Status Page Providers

When running a SaaS business, transparency is everything, especially when things go wrong. A SaaS...

Learn More 1 1Apr 16

15 Free Status Page Tools in 2025

If you're building something even mildly critical (SaaS, API, web app, you name it), having a status...

Learn More 1 1Apr 10

6 Day Certs Are Here: Why SSL Certificate Lengths are Getting Shorter

For years, SSL/TLS certificates were treated like digital passports - issued once and forgotten for a...

Learn More 3 1Mar 19

10 UptimeRobot Alternatives in 2025

Whether you’re running a SaaS platform, an e-commerce store, or a personal blog, downtime can have...

Learn More 1 1Feb 11

10+ Top Free Alternatives to UptimeRobot for 2025

If you're searching for a free uptime monitoring solution, you've probably come across UptimeRobot....

Learn More 1 0Dec 23 '24

Amazon Cognito Outage: How StatusGator notified before Amazon did

On December 12, 2024, a major Amazon Cognito outage struck the critical us-east-1 (N. Virginia)...

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Word Wrapping in Vim

I've been writing a lot of text recently in Vim: Notes, blog posts, pretty much any prose I need to w...

Learn More 12 0Jan 4 '21

VimTrick: Moving Splits

Another Monday means another VimTrick! You may be familiar with Vim’s split capability which allows...

Learn More 2 0Jun 15 '20

VimTrick: Using Jumps

Here's a super useful Vim trick that requires no plugins and which will certainly power-up your Vim p...

Learn More 3 0Jun 11 '20

Has GitHub Been Down More Since its Acquisition by Microsoft?

Two years ago, on June 4th of 2018, Microsoft announced its acquisition of GitHub, unicorn darling of...

Learn More 4 1Jun 4 '20

VimTrick: Non-printable Characters

At times we might want to use unprintable or other in characters not accessible on our keyboards. For...

Learn More 6 0Jun 4 '20

Sort Lists, with and without plugins

A common practice of software developers is to sort lists of things alphabetically. A predictable ord...

Learn More 1 0Jun 1 '20

VimTrick: Reselect last visual selection

Often times I’m working with a visual selection of text and need to operate on that selection again....

Learn More 2 0May 28 '20

VimTrick: Relative line numbering

Many operations in Vim can be executed over a given number of lines. For example, d3j will delete the...

Learn More 4 0May 25 '20

VimTrick: Quick Replacements

Everyone is aware that x deletes the character under your cursor. But if you’re making a lot of chang...

Learn More 3 0May 21 '20

VimTrick: The clipboard register

Ever need to copy something into and out of Vim? There's a built-in way to do that and it's called th...

Learn More 8 0May 18 '20

VimTrick: Resolving Merge Conflicts in Vim

If you’re using source control like Git, SVN, or Mercurial then you’re probably accustomed to resolvi...

Learn More 6 0May 14 '20

VimTrick: Non-greedy pattern matching

Good morning Vim users of Dev.to! Another Monday has arrived and that means another in my series of V...

Learn More 4 0May 11 '20

VimTrick: Swap two characters

Here’s a quick trick that requires no plugins. You probably already know both of these commands but m...

Learn More 8 0May 7 '20

VimTrick: Text case coercion

Tim Pope's Abolish vim plugin provides handy options to coerce strings between a variety of casing, n...

Learn More 3 0May 4 '20

Launching a Vim email newsletter

More than 2 years ago, my business partner, @alibby and I started a tiny little website called VimTr...

Learn More 2 0Apr 25 '20