Finally Returning to Full Time Work After 123 Days
Receiving the final sign off after four months off for my ruptured appendix.
I'm a Software Engineer with a passion for backend engineering, especially with regard to APIs and automation. I've recently been gaining a hands-on experience of DevOps culture and practices, and use my site as a method of blogging about my learnings, as well as sharing information about projects I have previously, or are currently, working on in my spare time.
I'm a GNU/Linux user, a big advocate for the Free Software Movement, and I try to self host my own services where possible, instead of relying on other providers.
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Serving Branches on a Subdomain using Caddy and GitLab Review Apps
How to dynamically serve a branch on a subdomain for GitLab Review Apps using Caddy Labels.
Deploying to Netlify using GitLab CI
How adding two lines to my .gitlab-ci.yml migrated my existing site from GitLab Pages to Netlify.
Executing an Interactive Python Shell (REPL) for a Script
Using python -i to get an interactive REPL after running a Python source file.
Bundling Common Rake Tasks into a Gem
An example of how to create a helper gem for common Rake task, using the real-world example of Chef cookbooks.
Running `docker login` as another user in Chef
Hitting the error permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket when trying to run docker login as a non-root user in Chef.
My First Week Back to Working (Remotely) After Three Months
How I’ve found the first week back to work after almost three months, and the productivity gains of working reduced hours.
Chef 13 Upgrade: `knife-cookbook-doc` Rubocop Updates
Disabling the Missing space after # and Do not use block comments errors for your knife-cookbook-doc formatted comments.
Testing Chef's `ruby_block`s with ChefSpec
Testing implementation of a ruby_block in ChefSpec, to ensure that the code executes as expected
Verify a Ruby Class Method is Called with Arguments in Rspec, Without Doubles or Mocks
Rspec code to verify that a Ruby Class Method is called from another method, without needing to mock anything.
Talks and Workshops
I have a number of talks and workshops that I have done previously, and am open to do.
Projects
I also have a number of projects I've documented on my projects page.