Migrating from Ghost to Hugo - Why Bother?

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With a little bit of free time for a change, I decided to finally migrate my blog from Ghost to a static site generator. I’ve been putting this …
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Effective Shell Part 7: The Subtleties of Shell Commands

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In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the various different types of shell commands that exist and how this can affect your work. By the end of …
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Effective Shell Part 6: Everything You Don't Need To Know About Job Control

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Job control is a feature of most shells, which is generally not particularly intuitive to work with. However, knowing the basics can help prevent you …
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Effective Shell Interlude: Understanding the Shell

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This is the first ‘interlude’ in my Effective Shell series. These interludes give some background, history or more flavour to some of the …
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Effective Shell 4: Move Around!

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This is the fourth part of my Effective Shell series, a set of practical examples of ways to be more efficient with everyday tasks in the shell or at …
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Dynamic and Configurable Availability Zones in Terraform

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When building Terraform modules, it is a common requirement to want to allow the client to be able to choose which region resources are created in, …
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A portable and magic-free way to open Pull Requests from the Command Line

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This little bash snippet will let you open a GitHub or GitLab pull request from the command line on most Unix-like systems (OSX, Ubuntu, etc), without …
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Manipulating Istio and other Custom Kubernetes Resources in Golang

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In this article I’ll demonstrate how to use Golang to manipulate Kubernetes Custom Resources, with Istio as an example. No knowledge of Istio is …
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Procedural Smiles - Animating SVG with pure JavaScript

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I recently needed to be able to generate a simple face image, with the face being able to scale from happy to sad. (Why I needed to do this is a long …
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Patching Kubernetes Resources in Golang

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Recently I needed to be able to quickly adjust the number of replicas in a Kubernetes Replication Controller. The original solution I’d seen …
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