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Back to WordPress
The more astute readers out there will have noticed that there’s been a slight design change around here. I’ve actually just finished migrating from Hugo to WordPress. But why? When I first resurrected this blog, I wrote a post about my reasons for selecting a static site generator (Jekyll then Hugo) in the first place.…
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Switching from Docker Desktop to Colima
I use Docker containers to automate the setup of development environments in a standard and repeatable way. It makes it very easy to spin up applications locally during development, and especially to ensure everyone working in a team has a consistent environment. The Docker Engine is actually built on top of a few Linux technologies, including Kernel…
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Switching to Starship
A long time ago, I started experimenting with customising my Bash shell prompt. Rather than just showing the current working directory, I wanted to add snippets of useful information to my prompt. I started with displaying the currently active branch of a Git repository. Next I added code to show which version of a particular…
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Git Commit Etiquette
Clear, meaningful, commit and pull request messages are essential when working on a shared codebase. They serve a couple of important purposes: What makes a good commit? When writing your commit message, try to consider whether it answers these questions: Try to keep your commit messages small; no more than a sentence or so. Make…
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Jekyll and GitHub Actions
When deciding to resurrect this blog, I first had to do some research to choose the right software to do the job. The original blog years ago was deployed using WordPress and while I’m still a fan of WordPress I wanted to keep things super simple this time around. At work last year I redid some internal…
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