06/07/2022 — 4 min read
Docker volume mounts are commonly used to allow specific files and directories to be persisted outside of the container lifecycle. In other words, volume mounts provide a way of letting data persist…
08/07/2020 — 1 min read
If you're running Arch Linux on a laptop with a supported finerprint reader, you might like to be able to use your fingerprint to unlock after suspend. At first glance of the Arch Wiki page, it would…
20/11/2019 — 4 min read
When async/await was introduced to ECMAScript it was generally pretty celebrated. Nearly every engineer I spoke to raved about the feature, how it “finally” made asynchronous operations in JS not…
27/09/2019 — 4 min read
My colleagues and I once faced a recurring problem: we’re terrible at keeping plants alive. But as software developers in an open-plan, plant-plentiful office, something needed to be done, and it…