Using img2lambda to publish your Serverless PHP layer
AKRABAT This interesting tweet by Clare Liguori came to my attention last week: This new img2lambda tool will take the layers of a Docker container and convert them to AWS…
rst2pdf: back from the dead!
AKRABAT Today marks a momentous day! I've released of rst2pdf to PyPI! If you have a need to convert plain text files to PDF, check it out. As the last…
Keyboard control of macOS notification alerts
AKRABAT I use Apple's Reminders app to remind me about things that I need to do. It has the useful feature of syncing across my Mac, iPad and iPhone and…
Setting up IBM Cloud Object Storage
AKRABAT For a little website that I'm writing, I thought that I'd use IBM Cloud Object Storage (equivalent to AWS S3) as I'm generating the pages using OpenWhisk on IBM…
Serverless PHP on AWS Lamda
AKRABAT Like, Simon Wardley, I think that serverless computing is an interesting space because the billing is granular (pay only when your code executes) and you don't need to worry…
2018 in pictures
AKRABAT As 2018 draws to a close, I take the time to look at the past year as I have done in years past, I look at the photos that…
Autojump is magic
AKRABAT One of my favourite command line utilities is autojump. It's a small command line utility that allows you to change directory without having to remember exactly where that directory…
Upgrading to Bash 4 on macOS
AKRABAT Incredibly, macOS Mojave comes with Bash by default still. Apparently this is due to licensing reasons, however Bash 4 has lots of lovely features including associative arrays that I'd…
Route specific configuration in Slim
AKRABAT A friend emailed me recently asking about route specific configuration in Slim. He wants to be able to set properties when creating the route that he can pick up…
Migrating to password_verify
AKRABAT I've recently been updating a website that was written a long time ago that has not been touched in a meaningful way in many years. In addition to the…