Finnian Anderson
Home Assistant waters my plants!
My first foray into home automations, Zigbee and irrigation systems.
Blog
Integrating Facebook's new WYSIWYG editor 'Lexical' with ActionText
Lexical works out of the box with ActionText, but it requires a little setup.
From Paperclip to Active Storage at scale
My experience of migrating from Paperclip to Active Storage on a production site.
Hotwire in the real world.
Building & scaling a Rails app built using Turbo/Hotwire, what did we learn?
View Components, Storybook and Tailwind: The Holy Trinity?
Learn how to setup View Components and Storybook for Ruby on Rails.
What Happened to My Blog?
My hosting provider had a fire which melted my server :(
Uploading files to S3 with React Native and Ruby on Rails
Uploading files to AWS S3 using presigned urls can be tricky, here's how I got it working.
Building FleetReach - Introduction
New Zealand update
I moved to New Zealand 18 months ago, but don't worry, I've been keeping myself busy with lots of projects. Plus, discover my new goals for 2019.
Invoking OpenFaaS serverless functions from Siri
We figured out how to trigger OpenFaaS functions from Siri and interact with Docker/Kubernetes via the new Shortcuts app in iOS 12. Serverless Siri!
Deploying a Vue PWA to Now
Developing a Progressive Web App to integrate with the Star Wars API. Find out how to configure Vue for instant, global deployments with Zeit's cloud.
ColoriseBot: three months on
ColoriseBot was a great success at DockerCon EU but also gained a lot of traction afterwards, including being featured in various media outlets.
Colourising Video with OpenFaaS Serverless Functions
How do you deploy a serverless function to colourise videos using machine learning? Take OpenFaaS & combine it with Caffe to deploy an autoscaling service.
SSL with Docker Swarm, Let's Encrypt and Nginx
Deploying to Docker swarm with Nginx and SSL, courtesy of Let's Encrypt. Learn how to setup certificates, Nginx, a compose file, automatic renewal and more!
Rapid development with Node.js and Docker
Bullet proof guide on how to create tiny Docker images for Node.js in production, configure your dev environment, automate your release cycle and more!
Ship Serverless Functions to your Docker Swarm with OpenFaaS
Functions as a Service is a really neat way of implementing serverless functions with Docker. See how to deploy a FaaS function to a remote Docker Swarm!
DockerCon 2017 - highlights & experiences
Check out what I got up to at DockerCon17, including my Docker load monitor which I did a demo of in my presentation as well as my top moments of the week.
TweetDock at DockerCon
For the DockerCon17 museum, I created TweetDock - a visualiser monitoring #DockerCon, made with Docker and Raspberry Pi. Find out how I made it and more!
How and why I migrated from Wordpress to Ghost
Learn how I immigrated from WP to Ghost, how I dealt with SEO, old links and other problems and which tools I used.
My programming story... so far
Find out how I went from learning to program with a Raspberry Pi to deploying distributed apps & services on servers in different locations!
How does my stuff work?
See how I deploy my code to squeeze as much performance out of them as possible using technologies like Nginx, Docker and Node.js.
Dockering with cardboard
How should we show the load across a Raspberry Pi Docker swarm? A cardboard monitor of course!
Visualising Docker on Pi with PiGlow
Docker, flashing lights, real time Python code, what more could you want?
Raspberry Pi Swarm
My first project utilising the Docker containerisation platform - building a Raspberry Pi swarm and trying to work out what to do with it.