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Caddy supports --watching and automatically reloading the Caddyfile but unfortunately, this isn't enabled in various docker images. This means you need to refresh (or poke the docker container) everytime you change the "Caddyfile". Thankfully, docker allows you to [overwr ...

I've been messing around with https://unraid.net again, trying to tidy up my data which was spread across multiple disks. This has led to a bunch of interesting needs:  removing duplicates finding series (Books, Music, Movies, TV) with missing items storing TBs of data temporarily as I move it around ...

The pitch Do you maintain your own .emacs.d and worry that it is a single pile of complected and unmaintainable logic? Fancy a bit of spacemacs' layers? Modules, modules and more modules for the win. Tooling This approach requires a trivially small amount of elisp and a single plugin ([ivy, actually counsel, all of which is confusingly ...

If you are using ClojureScript (and if not, why not? :-)) then I strongly recommend you enable parallel build. I mistakenly thought this meant that it would run separate builds in parallel, but no, it is far cleverer a ...

ag is great and searches through your code base in the blink of an eye. Coupled with helm it makes for a great experience finding things. If run in a git project then it helpfully ignores those in your .gitignore file. However, in most projects I have f ...

Another quick tip. I use the excellent cljsbuild to compile and test our ClojureScript projects (and I can't believe how difficult it is to wire this stuff together in 2016!). To support continuous integration I use phantomjs to provide the JavaScript environment. Unfortunately ...

I need to write a much longer post to explain my thoughts on 'versioning' and what constitutes a release with today's trends of continuous integration, but for now, a simple tip. I wanted a way to distinguish each build, not each release but each build. There is one excellent source of truth for that which is your git repository. Wouldn't i ...