I really like how it is to write non-English words with a Mac keyboard. just like smartphones simply holding on a key that has different possible accents triggers a small menu where you can select a different accent/umlaut. Yesterday I found out that for some reason this feature is no longer working on my Mac, […]
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docker-machine for better Docker on OSX
A while ago I published a blog post about Dockerizing my php development environment, soon after that I learned about the poor i/o performance of docker-containers on MacOSX. While that is manageable for small projects where there are not much I/O happening between multiple containers, I was stunned by how bad it could get after […]
LaraDock: Dockerizing my PHP Development Environment
As a PHP Developer I’ve always had instances of webserver, php & database server running as first level services on my Development machines. I can claim that configuring LAMP (recently LEMP) stack was always one of the first things I’d do when I get a new machine. I’ve been using Docker for running other services […]
run quick ad-hoc tasks using Ansible
Ansible with no doubt is one of the most popular tools that its name always comes up in every discussion about DevOps Automation. Its no joke that Ansible does its best when it’s used against an inventory of infrastructure containing nodes with designated roles and tasks. at my work I often find myself in need […]
a more Production friendly ELK stack with Docker
recently I spend a big chunk of my time in office doing DevOps related tasks. Elasticsearch is one of the technologies that we use a lot for both production and development. ever since I had to deal with elasticsearch instances in the office I decided to move them to docker containers, that would make my […]