I Bought An N100 Mini PC, Then Another
I have bought dozens of Raspberry Pis over the years, but I'm now turning to the Mini PC for R&D work. The Intel N100 is a low-power processor with...
The 90s UNIX Utility That Fell Out of Favour
The classic command finger is still found on MacOS and various other BSDs even today, but has fallen out of favour. Why? For us over here in the UK,...
Blazing fast CI with MicroVMs
Around 6-8 months ago I started exploring MicroVMs out of curiosity. Around the same time, I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub...
Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
When I heard about the Microsoft Dev Kit 2023, I was surprised by how generous the specifications were for the price? Naturally, I wanted to know if...
Self-hosting Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi
The aim of this post is to show you how to build a Kubernetes cluster with Raspberry Pi 4s for self-hosting APIs, websites and functions so that you...
Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development
This post covers the building of my Linux Desktop PC for Cloud Native Development. I'll be covering everything from parts, to peripherals, to CLIs, t...
Run your blog with Ghost, Docker and LetsEncrypt
In this blog post I'll show you how to set up your own blog just like mine with Ghost, Docker, Nginx and LetsEncrypt for HTTPS. You can follow these...
Attach USB storage to your Raspberry Pi
In this quick guide we'll show how to attach storage to your Raspberry Pi. It's likely that at some point you will need to plug in a USB hard drive o...
Hands-on Docker for Raspberry Pi
Learn everything you wanted to know about installing and running Docker on the Raspberry Pi culminating in a mini-project: how to create an IoT doorb...
Deploy & scale your application on AWS with Docker Swarm
In this guide we will look at how to provision a set of 16 EC2 instances on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and then deploy an application with Docker Swar...