Some notes on creating website proxies in Nginx with only Kubernetes resources.To use a recent example I worked on, say we've been using an Amazon S3 bucket with a custom domain name

Hacking the Jubilee Line's door buttonsCracking into the button caseOpening up the door button case is initially obvious - four recessed nuts surround the black plastic case. Before you get too eager however,

I recently got one of my side-projects to a state where it's semi-usable, so thought I'd jot down some thoughts on the process. It's a London-centric transport routing engine, which will provide alternative

This week, in stumping Ross for a couple of hours... At Snap Tech, we've been breaking up some of our large-file-parsing components into smaller units (for testability, reusability, and to be able to

Another "document it, so no one else has to research it" post I've been using TfL's API a lot recently - in particular live arrivals at a station/stop. I've started

I'm sharing this as there's only a single mention of this in the entire AWS ECS documentation; and no hint in the console UI. If you attempt to run a one-off task in

In building DayLog (intro post coming soon), since it's a completely personal project, I've been trying to play with as much new front-end tech as possible. In this instance, I've been finding HTML5

For a project I'm working on, I wanted to get a list of user-supplied tags for an office and the number of times each was submitted (e.g. 7 users added #freebeer): [ { tag:

I was trying to find a way to call a console command from another one, while modifying the container parameters, and ended up with this minimum-viable-bootstrap. It almost works - subsequent runs seem

When using Ansible with a dynamic inventory, you can end up typing a lot more: EC2_INI_PATH=prod.ini ansible -i plugins/inventory/ec2.py -u ec2-user -s "*" -m ping

Ran into an odd scenario with RabbitMQ recently. Messages were not being published to queues, yet no errors were reported. Queues were recreated once deleted (indicating that the message was received, just not

PHP 5.5 introduced an alternative opcode cache, OpCache, which replaces the APC extension. It's great - for one thing it's only trying to be an opcode cache and not a key-value store

Recently I've been looking at involving Docker containers into running a few Laravel applications - possibly removing provisioning and deployment scripts from the process completely. I'm going to record some notes on my

I find the initial Laravel project structure quite approachable: app/ commands/ config/ controllers/ database/ models/ storage/ tests/ views/ However, as your application grows, you'll likely find it difficult to structure without namespaces. Larger

For the past few years I've usually had a stab at making something with the Cheerlights API - a Thingspeak service that watches tweets hashtagged #cheerlights and extracts the latest colour tweeted. You

You can emulate assertions in Ansible using a combination of registers, the fail module and when directive: - name: get installed version # Get first two version numbers (major.minor) shell: node -v | sed