Articles

There is a lot of writing on this page! Let’s start with a selection. Here are the most recent entries, as well as my favorites, grouped by category:

Recent Writing

• A List of Terminal-Friendly Tools Sep 2025
• Catching Up on 5 Years of Docker Updates Aug 2023
• Tailwind CSS For Non-Designers Jul 2023

Favorites

Concepts & Understanding

• Which Problems Can Docker Help Me Solve? ★ Feb 2021
• But What is Docker's Actual Job? ★ Nov 2019
• The Hero's Journey to Every Deployment Story ★ Oct 2019
• Production Doesn't Have to Be a Big Deal ★ Jun 2019
• Get Docker Right and Get on with Life ★ Mar 2019
• So You Want to Deploy Your Web App - a Goal Oriented Introduction ★ Jul 2017
• Deployment Properties You Want And Tasks You Should be Able to Do ★ Jul 2017

Docker Basics

• 12 Things I Wish I Knew About Docker ★ Aug 2020
• Your Docker Learning Roadmap ★ Apr 2020
• 6 Docker Basics You Should Completely Grasp When Getting Started ★ Jul 2017

Building Docker Images

• Ops Friendly Containers ★ Feb 2021
• What's A Docker Image Anyway? ★ Jan 2021
• The Quickest Way to Improve Your Docker Images ★ Jan 2021
• 5 Tips to Speed up Your Docker Image Build ★ Jan 2021
• What's Wrong With The Docker :latest Tag? ★ Mar 2018
• Docker ARG, ENV and .env - a Complete Guide ★ Jul 2017

Running Containers

• The Reason Why You Need to Wait When Stopping Your Docker Compose Services ★ Jan 2020
• Using Docker Compose for Development Environment Dependencies ★ Jul 2017

Docker Tooling

• What Are Orchestrators, and How Do They Relate to Docker? ★ Feb 2021

Kubernetes

• You Might Want To Know About: Kubernetes Operators ★ Feb 2021

Deployment & Infrastructure

• Things I Wish I Knew Earlier About Pulumi ★ Apr 2022
• Starting A Vagrant Ops Sandbox ★ Feb 2022
• Tools to Help Automate Your Workflows ★ Jun 2020
• Deploying Like an Early Stage Startup ★ Jul 2017

Data & Tinkering

• Demystifying 'The Kernel' ★ Mar 2023
• Understanding How Scientific Papers Are Structured ★ Apr 2022
• A Journey Through Mathematical Subfields ★ Apr 2022
• What Is Math About? ★ Apr 2022

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