Tools 🧰

All my posts about various tools

52 posts

Tooling posts from the messy, useful layer between idea and shipped thing - editors, command-line utilities, local services, helper apps, developer workflows, and the periodic day-to-day toolbox refresh. These are the notes I wish I had already written when setting something up for the second or third time.

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Tools 🧰Cloud ⛅️

Migration of Server & Swap Space

Migrate DigitalOcean instance for cost efficiency. Enable swap space to prevent oomkiller issues. Optimize performance with tuned settings.

Code 🐛Tools 🧰

More Grunt & Jekyll

Streamlined my Grunt configuration by combining tasks, now I can concatenate JS files, compress them with Uglify, and minify CSS files in one go!

Code 🐛Tools 🧰

Grunt + Jekyll + LESS

Revamped my website with a new design, integrating LESS with Jekyll via Grunt for a more efficient and automated workflow.

Docker 🐳Tools 🧰

An Experiment with Docker & HHVM

Experimented with Docker and HHVM for our Drupal7 site at work, achieving a seamless transition and saving significant setup time.

macOS 🍏Tools 🧰

Annoying Virtual Box bug

Solved a perplexing issue where static files weren't updating in Vagrant due to a long-standing VirtualBox bug with 'sendfile'.

Docker 🐳Tools 🧰

Installing Docker 1.3.x on CentOS 7

Successfully upgraded to Docker 1.3 with process injection feature on CentOS, bypassing outdated repos with a manual install.

macOS 🍏Tools 🧰

Yosemite Installation

Reflecting on my smoothest MacOS upgrade experience with Yosemite: a journey from backup to clean installation and setting up my essentials.

Docker 🐳Tools 🧰

Very basic CoreOS

Exploring CoreOS on DigitalOcean: From setting up a single instance with familiar tools to configuring a powerful container-oriented OS.

Docker, Fig, NGINX Reverse Proxies and CentOS 7

Docker 🐳Tools 🧰

Docker, Fig, NGINX Reverse Proxies and CentOS 7

Exploring Docker's rapid updates and the ecosystem, including using Fig for container orchestration and setting up an NGINX reverse proxy.