We’re facing a prolonged period when we have to stay at home. I want my favourite pubs to stay in business, so I can look forward to sharing a beer with a friend in the future. I want my favourite musicians to still be making music, so I can dream of the day when I can enjoy watching you or playing with you again. Here’s an idea I’m playing with.

I need to quickly set up a blog to help share some neighbourly information. NetlifyCMS is my friend. Go to https://www.netlifycms.org/ Click “Get Started” Choose to start with a Hugo Site Starter (since that’s what I’m familiar with); also available are Gatsby, Middleman and Preact. Click “Deploy to Netlify” (where I already have an account) Provide access to my Gitlab account A few minutes later, I have a deployed barebones site, with the content stored under version control in Gitlab.

This is a great post to describe how to do this. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/05/moving-git-repository-new-server/

I decided to migrate this website from Wordpress to Hugo for two reasons: Static websites are faster than database-driven Static websites are cheaper Here’s how I did it. 1. Decide Whether Leaving WordPress Is Possible 3 Things to consider before leaving Wordpress Search Forms plugins 1.1 Search https://gohugo.io/tools/search/ details various options for adding search to your Hugo website. 1.2 Forms My preferred site for hosting is currently Netlify.

When I do DevOps, my ideal day is sitting with my feet up in the sunshine, doing very little active work. The monitoring alarms aren’t going off; the server alarms are quiet. The developers are happy; the managers are smiling. That’s the purpose of DevOps. To put in place the system that means the workflow between customer - manager - engineer happens without your active input. Because the team has spent time building a devops system that means everyone can just keep working without having to stop and wait for someone else to say “OK, start again”.

I just recently ran out of space on my relatively new OSX desktop machine, which came with over a 1TB. Strange! I thought. Downloaded the excellent (and free) OmniDiskSweeper and let it run. https://www.omnigroup.com/more/ Well, that would explain it. Nearly 1 TB of core files in /cores. Removed them and set the hard limit to prevent their creation. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/215410/os-x-el-capitan-cores-directory-taking-up-a-lot-of-space And suddenly I have a very much happier machine :)

I run Luzme, an ebook search system, which runs 24x7 on about 30 virtual machines in 7 countries on 6 continents. This article explains how I setup Kubernetes from scratch on a set of VMs from Bytemark, to improve the way I use the infrastructure behind Luzme, using the new container-based technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, to provide a better, more maintainable, more scalable system Luzme uses a diverse stack of technologies, including Percona (a MySQL-compatible database), Firebase (real-time NoSQL), Redis, Celery, Django, Solr, AngularJS, Python.

This is a bug in npm v3.10.8. See my error report for angular-cli: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/2311#issuecomment-249222798

Pagination, or “How to Fetch a Data Set in Parts” You want to provide a quick initial set of data to your Firebase user, say the first 5 blog posts. If they want more, you can serve up what is needed, always being considerate of their waiting time and network data usage. This is a great design pattern, because it is optimising the right thing at the right time. At the start, you care most about speed, and giving the user something to work with.

I set up a new project to use Google’s Web Toolkit framework, which uses babel in its gulpfile. All looks good, but I get this error ` $ gulp e2e-test [09:01:05] Requiring external module babel-register CWD/gulpfile.babel.js:27 import path from ‘path’; ^^^^^^ SyntaxError: Unexpected reserved word at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16) at Module._compile (module.js:373:25) at loader (CWD/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:158:5) ` The cause: I need a .babelrc file to make it work. From the babel website, (https://babeljs.