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A little redesign
It's been over a year since I wrote anything here. I don't know why - a lot has happened. Obviously the solution to this was to make my blog yellow. I've spent maximum 3 hours working on this CSS, so yeh it's probably not responsive and the colours are a bit …
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Delivery Metrics - the good, the bad and the totally ridiculous
Ignite talk from DevOpsDays London on the 30th September 2023
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Hayfever
I have an appointment at Nottingham Allergy Clinic later today and I'm weirdly excited about it. I developed seasonal allergies as a teenager and I've struggled through summers for 20+ years now. I don't suffer like some people do, an attack doesn't turn into asthma for instance, and I don't …
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GraphQL for
beginnersmeA graphQL server needs a schema, resolvers and a datasource. The schema defines the data model but also the queries that you are allowed to do. The datasource actually gets the data from wherever it is, like a database or file or whatever. Resolvers take the data from the datasource …
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Project structure - an ongoing saga
On this week's edition of 'disagreements with the ops team' - python project structure (a small symptom of a much larger philosophical discussion..). For many years I have subscribed to the idea of mini-monoliths. Not microservices where like every tiny thing is a separate project, and not a massive lump of …
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Migrating from one Mastodon server to another
For one reason or another, you may need to migrate from one Masto instance to another. I've recently done it, so I thought I'd share my hints with the world. There are a few things to bear in mind if you are going to move to a new server: You …