Open Source Developer Advocate
Run multiple webapps on a single host with automated SNI and TLS certificate provisioning.
I frequently deploy Web APIs in Docker. On a single VM I might have up to five or six services running. All of them have TLS certificates and are accessible via port 443 using SNI — Server Name Indication, where the request is routed to the correct backend based on the domain name of the request.
Building your own GitHub Action.
GitHub Actions are small, reusable modules of functionality that can participate in GitHub Workflows. You can add a GitHub workflow yaml file to any GitHub repo, and have it run in response to events like code pushes, pull requests - even arbitrary events posted to the repository’s repository_dispatch REST endpoint over the GitHub API.
Some tips on travelling like a BOSS.
Over the last 20 years, I’ve done a fair amount of travel around the world. My first trip out of New Zealand on my own - in 1996, to Sydney - was a hot mess. I had no idea that you have to pass through a metal detector at the airport, and I rocked up with batteries, coins, a metal chain on my wallet, a Maglite torch, and a multi-headed screwdriver in my pockets. When I got down to the screwdriver the security guy said, incredulously: “What are you, Dr Who??”
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