It is rare in software development that you are building something in complete isolation from everything else. Generally, you are going to be making calls to other systems or components.

If you are lucky you are building against an existing API that you can test against. If you are working…

Often when I am creating a new website, I want to see how it is going to look on an actual device like my phone or tablet. You can use Chrome Web Tools for mimicking a device but it isn’t the same as an actual phone.

However, chances are that…

Recently I went through the process of setting up Drone CI on my Raspberry Pi. The plan was to use my Raspberry Pi as a build server for this website as well as other projects.

However, the Sharp image library that Gatsby uses to resize images doesn’t natively work on…

I have recently been looking into AWS Step Functions. For those not familiar with them, Step Functions are Amazon’s way of providing a state machine as a service.

If you have used AWS you have probably used Lambda functions. …

I use docker every day. All the applications I write at work or at home end up in docker containers. Most of the time though, I am only running docker-compose up so when I need to do something more complicated I have to look it up.

So this post is…

As you might have seen from my last few posts I have quite a lot running on my Raspberry Pi.

I am currently using a Raspberry Pi 2 B which is a great device but only has 1GB of RAM and 900 MHz CPU. …

I wanted to put together my home build server using my Raspberry Pi. After looking at the options I picked Drone CI, it has a nice interface, simple to use and has loads of plugins available.

In my last post, I showed you how to set up Traefik as a…

I use my Raspberry Pi as my own personal home server. Up until recently, I have been using nginx as a reverse proxy for my docker containers. However, recently I have switched to Traefik and I have found it is much easier to maintain.

I am going to go through…