In the summer of 2017, I wanted to know what it would be like to use an iPad Pro as my main computer. I found out that it can actually work, thanks to an iOS app called Blink, an SSH replacement called Mosh, iOS 11 and running stuff on a server. You can jump right to the TL;DR. This piece is written from the perspective of a backend engineer. Visit the internet to see how an editor[1], a product manager[2] and a web & graphics designer[3] use an iPad as their main computer. Read more...

While you can easily $ docker search for images, it’s not so straight forward to find out all available tags of a public docker image. Wouldn’t it be nice, if you could just search for tags with $ docker tags redis? Here’s some code that you can put into your .zshrc or .bashrc to get the docker tags command until the folks at docker implement it: docker () { if [[ "${1}" = "tags" ]]; then docker_tag_search $2 else command docker $@ fi } docker_tag_search () { # Display help if [[ "${1}" == "" ]]; then echo "Usage: docker tags repo/image" echo " docker tags image" return fi # Full repo/image was supplied if [[ $1 == *"/"* ]]; then name=$1 # Only image was supplied, default to library/image else name=library/${1} fi printf "Searching tags for ${name}" # Fetch all pages, because the only endpoint supporting pagination params # appears to be tags/lists, but that needs authorization results="" i=0 has_more=0 while [ $has_more -eq 0 ] do i=$((i+1)) result=$(curl "https://registry. Read more...

*tl;dr: I built a Wi-Fi enabled LEGO Macintosh Classic running Docker on a Raspberry Pi Zero with an e‑paper display. Docker deployments via resin.io. photos Table of contents But why? Fitting prototype Making a plan with LEGO Designer Ordering the bricks Connecting an e-paper display to the Raspberry Pi Zero Running docker on the Pi and deploying via resin.io Putting it all together Pictures or didn’t happen But Why? Read more...