docker-proxy port in use

Quick one: you're starting a container through docker-compose and it says a port is in use. You "netstat -plutn" it and find out, that port is in use by docker-proxy. Github user rdavaillaud knows what's going on: stop dockerremove all internal docker network: rm /var/lib/docker/network/files/start docker

Technical Debt

DILBERT © Scott Adams. Used By permission of ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. All rights reserved. Technical debt is the amount of work needed to decrease the total cost of a product. Me The classical definition doesn't work Technical debt (TD) is intuitively easy to grasp as an inherent quality/complexity issue that makes a product hard to … Continue reading Technical Debt →

parchive: protecting backups against data corruption

As time goes by, my [place appropriate interval] backups may not grow much, but the size of my entire data archive exceeds the largest available hard disks (don't ask). Taking into account correctness guarantees by hard disk manufacturers, transmission errors over the network and who knows what else, I don't feel confident that I'll flip … Continue reading parchive: protecting backups against data corruption →

Book of dark arts: selective disclosure with CSS

Show and hide pages and page elements with declarative CSS instead of imperative code

Book of dark arts: storing data in the view

Pentagram, source Wikipedia. Towards the end of the year I'll indulge in the dark arts, join the goblins and leave my white architect hat under the Christmas tree where it belongs. I'm helping a friend (a technically minded, non-programmer) write his first mobile app . We wanted to keep everything simple: use technologies which can … Continue reading Book of dark arts: storing data in the view →