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IT Featured Articles on cool technologies, focused on System Administration and Programming Languages

Docker History

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Bullet points: 1979: Unix V7 Introduced the chroot command to isolate the filesystem a process “access” to. Various technology was introduced up to 2006, like Virtuozzo (which patched Linux in a proprietary ways) 2006: Process Containers Launched by Google in … Continue reading →
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Open watcher: Nilfs file system and concourse CI

Posted on November 21, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
NILFS is a log-structured file system supporting versioning of the entire file system and continuous snapshotting, which allows users to even restore files mistakenly overwritten or destroyed just a few seconds ago. NILFS was developed by NTT Laboratories and published … Continue reading →
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Feather: Simple Icons with MIT License

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Simply beautiful open source icons https://github.com/feathericons/feather 1,172 forks. 23,085 stars. 485 open issues. Recent commits: feat: Add `table` icon (#1138), GitHub Update GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, GitHub Remove GITHUB_TOKEN env variable, GitHub Add env variables, GitHub chore: Add ci.yml workflow, GitHub  
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Git Hooks: pre-commit.com

Posted on October 15, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Nice tool to test: Git hook scripts are useful for identifying simple issues before submission to code review. We run our hooks on every commit to automatically point out issues in code such as missing semicolons, trailing whitespace, and debug … Continue reading →
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Hacker News Undocumented “features”

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented 101 forks. 2,959 stars. 28 open issues. Recent commits: Merge pull request #61 from asgh/patch-1note karma effect even after -4, GitHub note … Continue reading →
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Random thoughts on DevOps 2022

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
My true personal opinion based on what customers asks and what co-worker uses: docker , docker-compose is still the dev winner Podman is rising but it has no extra feature, because docker support the rootless mode too. Ignite – Use … Continue reading →
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Next.js: Give it a Try!

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
I was trying to explore a way to build a client/server application in Typescript; after some failed experiments, I found something better: Next.js offer the ability to build a React application and to render server-side its dynamic components. So you can … Continue reading →
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