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Build Monitor with Raspberry Pi and Touch Screen
Information is a great tool in software development and it’s useful to have easy access to it. The more obvious you make your problems, the harder you make them to ignore. The more attention they get, the quicker they get solved. One thing developers like to monitor in software development is continuous integration status and…
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Monthly notes 28
Winter refuses to make way for the Spring and March in Southern Finland has been quite cold despite warm and rainy week which melted away some of the already scarce snow. So, skiing mainly on artificial snow and mountainbiking on icy paths which is nice. But this also leaves time to read what has happened…
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Monthly notes 27
For cold winter evenings here’s something to read. Monthly notes for February are about relearning and thinking. Issue 27: 23.2.2018 Relearning Computer Science and why it’s necessary even for web developers “Computer Science and why it’s necessary even for web developers I know that in some countries a degree in CS is expensive or unattainable,…
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Extracting JSON value from command line with jq and Python
Developing modern web applications you often come to around checking REST API responses and parsing JSON values. You can do it with a combination of Unix tools like sed, cut and awk but if you’re allowed to install extra tools or use Python then things get easier. This post shows you couple of options for…
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Monthly notes 26
January finally brought snow also to Southern Finland and darkness is retreating slowly when the day becomes longer. This time monthly notes tells you about different JavaScript frameworks, making webpack perform better and looks into bootstrapping microservices and running docker securely. On programming side there are articles for best practices with Kotlin and about Kotlin…
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2017 Retrospective
It’s January 2018 and while I’m gathering my notes for the year’s first post its’ good to look back what I wrote in 2017 and make plans for the new year. In 2017 I managed to write as leisurely as usual and put together 17 articles of which 6 are something other than monthly notes.……
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Monthly notes 25
December has gone fast and this time the monthly notes are more about pointers to tools and resources. Especially for accessibility which is important aspect of web development. If you don’t follow front-end development actively check out the recap of it’s development in 2017. And to learn more about security it’s good to read the…
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Git pre-commit and pre-receive hooks: validating YAML
Software development has many steps which you can automate and one useful thing to automate is to add Git commit hooks to validate your commits to version control. Firing off custom client-side and server-side scripts when certain important actions occur. Validating commited files’ contents is important for syntax validity and even more when providing Spring…
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Monthly notes 24
Rain, cold winds and darkness have arrived to Finland and there’s so many good reason to stay at home with warm mug of coffee and read. This month’s notes cover how you should optimize images, how your eyes are telling lies and how to circumvent it in design. You also get pointers to security tools…
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Dockerizing all the things: Running Ansible inside Docker container
Automating things in software development is more than useful and using Ansible is one way to automate software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Normally you would install Ansible to your control node just like any other application but an alternate strategy is to deploy Ansible inside a standalone Docker image.… Jatka lukemista →