Or, Configuring Keychain for SSH and GPG keys — Personal update I have been self-abducted for the last 3 months in a dark closet writing code for the U.S. Gov’t, that closet being my home in Brooklyn. As you can imagine, I was so engrossed in my work that my writing in Medium took a heavy hit. I’m happy to be…

After upgrading Docker from 3.x to 4.x, the latest being 4.1.x, Docker began acting up and refusing to start. Ran Windows Terminal as an Administrator and deleted the following directories: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Docker %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Docker %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Docker Desktop Immediately after deleting the last directory, Docker Desktop successfully started automatically by itself!

Install the Go language: sudo apk add go bash-5.1$ go Go is a tool for managing Go source code. Usage: go <command> [arguments] The commands are: bug start a bug report build…

On Alpine Windows Subsystem for Linux — Yesterday morning I wrote an article on installing Lando into Ubuntu WSL 2, using the latest and greatest Docker Desktop (release 3.2.x). If you are one of the 3 anonymous cats and 1 rottweiler dog that follows this blog, you probably figured out that I’d be a matter of when…

Update your WiFi drivers — In the recent weeks I’ve been running into issues when cloning from remote Git repositories. Not just on Github.com, but elsewhere as well. Some repos would clone, others would fail with obscure messages. For a while no amount of Googling would lead me to a favorable result. Updating all of…

Using the latest Docker Desktop 3.2.x and Ubuntu 18.04 — My main driver in WSL2 is usually Alpine, but I’ve initially encountered some issues with installing Lando there. Alpine is not for the weak! Instead I am going to use Ubuntu (18.04) in WSL2, and install Lando there. Pre-requisites: Lando: Development environment centered around Docker…

Or: How to remove endless number of sessions Note: if you want to know how to create your own SSH keys, visit Github to read Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent, and Testing your SSH connection. When I open Windows Terminal into my Windows Subsystem…

Docker, Drupal, and Solr: thoughts on creating an Alpine Docker image for Apache Solr — Today, I began my day by looking at this monstrosity of a Docker image for Apache Solr: https://hub.docker.com/layers/solr/library/solr/8.7-slim/images/sha256-4537181cdb9dce9e431fd7c9aa98618505370d2320a9ee5a961e3ff44f8c8b49?context=explore The image is fresh (from this month), and for all it’s worth it is as well constructed as it can be — it is after all, the official image from the World…

Time to revisit an old trusty friend — It’s been a few years since I’ve touched a Varnish VCL. VCL is the Varnish Configuration Language. 2010 was the first time that I used Varnish while supporting a high traffic Drupal 6.x site for some media company headquartered in New York City. Today I was tweaking and optimizing my…