📝 Articles - Page 2

Recently I went through the process of setting up Drone CI on my Raspberry Pi. The plan was to use my Raspberry Pi as a build server for this website as well as other projects. However, the Sharp image library that Gatsby uses to resize images doesn’...

I have recently been looking into AWS Step Functions. For those not familiar with them, Step Functions are Amazon’s way of providing a state machine as a service. If you have used AWS you have probably used Lambda functions. Lambda functions allow yo...

I use docker every day. All the applications I write at work or at home end up in docker containers. Most of the time though, I am only running docker-compose up so when I need to do something more complicated I have to look it up. So this post is a ...

As you might have seen from my last few posts I have quite a lot running on my Raspberry Pi. I am currently using a Raspberry Pi 2 B which is a great device but only has 1GB of RAM and 900 MHz CPU. So I am a little worried sometimes that I am going t...

I wanted to put together my home build server using my Raspberry Pi. After looking at the options I picked Drone CI, it has a nice interface, simple to use and has loads of plugins available. In my last post, I showed you how to set up Traefik as a r...

I use my Raspberry Pi as my own personal home server. Up until recently, I have been using nginx as a reverse proxy for my docker containers. However, recently I have switched to Traefik and I have found it is much easier to maintain. I am going to g...

By the time you finish reading this article, you will know how to get your static websites up and running securely on AWS using Terraform. This can be a very cost-effective way of hosting a website. I have 3 websites set up on AWS and in total, they ...

I have been getting into Instagram a bit more recently and as many other users have discovered, one of the big limitations is not being able to have more than one link in your profile. Links in posts don’t work either unless it is a promoted post. To...

As I mentioned in my previous posts there are quite a few ways to create components in React.js. As it happens there are also quite a few ways to style components as well. The great thing about React is you can create components in isolation. However...

As they say, there is more than one way to skin a cat. As it happens there is also more than one way to create a React component, which is much more animal friendly! I keep coming back to React for my projects, especially now I am using Gatsby for my...