Docker (and not just Docker Desktop) on a MacOS can be awfully slow, especially for developers when the container is accessing files on the local drive via a volume mount....
Creating an AWS Lambda and triggering on time
If you've read any of my earlier posts you'll know that I have been running the administrative side of my blog (using Ghost) on Heroku. But in this age, things move quickly and Ghost has since updated to v4 but looking at their docs the supported upgrade path is all around the ghost-cli tooling...
When I moved to using a Mac for development and working on projects involving React.js etc I knew I was going to have to reintroduce myself to the command line and so I started a search around what is the best terminal emulator and shell to use. During this search, I stumbled across oh-my-zsh...
Committing secrets to source control is a real problem for developers and I like many others have done it at least once.
Finally I completed the task of hosting the Ghost CMS on Heroku (free) [that I ashamedly admit I started this task in January and then deferred], then using Netlify I build and host a Gatsby.js generated static site.
Investigations into using Gatsby to build a static site version of my Ghost CMS blog using the services of Netlify and Render.