AI is taking over! well, maybe not quite, but it is and will continue to be embedded in our day-to-day lives. For this episode, I have been exploring Motion (links below). An app to use AI to organise your life. Uses the concept of “time blocking” (link below) and essentially lets you pull in all […]
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An interesting journey working with Docker over the years. Docker is great for containerising your apps, but what happens when you start to have a lot of containers and/or you want fail-over support? Well, even though Kubernetes (also known as K8S for short!) isn’t the only orchestration tool out there, it is fairly common and […]
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Ep.30 – VPN and Tunnels
This time around we have some VPN and Tunnel info. Lots of VPN solutions out there, but I wanted to highlight one that I have been using (successfully!) which has a really nice free version too! The VPN (but also has tunneling capabilities and more) is TailScale Also, Cloudflare, which is a massive cloud based […]
Well now, who would have thought a guest episode! My very good friend Tim Abell (podcast “software should be free“) has kindly created a Just Five Mins about asdf.. not just the handy set of keys on your keyboard! Use asdf to “Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool”. I could have done with this a week […]
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Ep.28 – Pocketbase
Well, more databases! but this one has a few tricks up its sleave! In the realm of things like Firebase, Supabase etc. Pocketbase aims to offer a similar feature set but is open source and deploys as one file… Pocketbase doesn’t offer any hosting like Firebase/Supabase, so you can use this within your own environment/cloud hosted server. Can be used […]
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Ep.27 – LTS
Okay, a short, possibly un-interesting episode, but using LTS (Long Term Support) versions of software might just be a good thing! Nearly at the end of 2022… LTS! Reason to think carefully about using an LTS (long term support) version of software!
Yeah, you bet! We all know the AI world is changing things for us if we like it or not. ChatGPT is coming… and I don’t think we can stop it! we can embrace it in the right way of course. Old news now, but worth a listen honest! From a developers perspective, check this […]
Okay, where to start! Well, couple of episodes back I talked about how Docker are previewing Docker with WASM (Web Assembly). So WASM became popular from Blazor the Microsoft tech to essentially bring compiled .NET code into the browser (and lots of other technologies can be used with WASM of course!). Seems WASM, and WASI, […]
A very cool, probably mis-understood, nugget this time around! Natively calling REST based (actually HTTP based, since you can call GraphQL too!) within Azure SQL database! I have done something similar years ago using OLE style SQL coding, but this felt a little clunky and goodness knows what the performance issues might have been! This […]
Well can you believe I had an episode about Hasura all the way back 2+ years ago! even though it was Episode 14 😉 This is a revisit. In my case, Hasura didn’t have full MS-SQL support back then, which is where I live mostly, but it does now! along with MongoDB, Postgres to name […]