Rabbits are M Queuing So I've been thinking about AI and the next steps towards something interesting... which lead me to streams of consciousness, and the infrastructure of thinking. Long story short (old-guy speak for TL;DR), this triggered an interest in messaging and streams, specifically Apache Kafka and Rabbit MQ. Today&
Raku: POD6 is a PITA So there's a beast called POD6 lurking in the shadows in Rakuland. It's an ancient monster, that grew out of the depths of Perl - and even then, its forebears predated the era of readable documentation... My contentious belief is that POD6 is simply not worth
Testing Times Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known. George E. P. Box. This page is a collection of links to sites I like to test from time to time. Sydney Sigh On... * The Georgian Cottage * EvacChair NZ * A French Affaire London Leto's Go * Bhutan 2018 -
First Gulp... ummm Maybe? TL;DR My first foray into toolchains, using Typescript in the Node-verse - to build a teeny web-page - with JS, CSS and HTML. This is all about the Toolchain - how to set it up, use it and develop with it. I don't cover packaging, source-control or
Just My Type... Script TL;DR - My first foray into a TypeScript powered Node-verse - a tale of toolchain madness (gulp!, grunt) and learning to dread implicit-type-any during those long pregnant VS-Code pauses. Starting {Block} My goal - learn a new stack, stack - I chose Nodeverse + Typescript - project: link. Looked at
Ghost Ghost Buster A memory of Howto Install Ghost on Debian Buster... Working through https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/ - the docs are fab - :namaste: Ghost Team. Getting nodejs installed sudo apt install -y npm # wow - that's a whole lot of dependency :( npm --version # 5.8.0 node
Chit-chat Welcome to my blog Hello - my blog is shiny new and fresh. I have installed the fabulous Ghost blogging software, created a database and and made this post today. I confess that I have to tweak the installation for smoother dev-ops (I have a tendency to fiddle in search of that perfect tone.