If you’re like me and enjoy having a time-specific salutation in your scripts, but don’t want to keep implementing the same “what time of day is it” logic, then you could easily create a script which does just that. But why then spawn another shell from within your script just to have it tell you the time of day? It would be much simpler to run cat /dev/greet and get an appropriate salutation, right?
I’m all in favour of boring data stores in production systems, but when you are writing things for personal use then you owe it to yourself to be experimental. This time… I might have gone too far.
Most system operators will have had experience with the LAMP stack. Comprising Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. There are a number of alternatives out there, and so I thought I may as well document my own preferred tech stack for personal projects.
There are things we all know we should do but quite often don’t bother with. Using multi-stage Dockerfiles to reduce the size of images is one of them; not running containers as root is another.
Review of February 2021. The first of (potentially) many month in review posts
Sometimes you want variables to be baked in to your application, but not present in source control. This is one such method in Golang
Making use of Golang, Lambda, and API Gateway
My latest quest on the adventure of becoming truly t-shaped
Every day is a school day. Why do the bare minimum when doing something different is so much fun?
