open source - Elliot Blackburn

devops

How I use git

I use git every day, it's one of my most used tools. Lets explore how I use it to achieve a flexible and fast workflow.

software engineering

Moving a git commit from one repository to another

Ever needed to move a commit from one repository to another? A remote branch and a cherry pick is all you need.

software engineering

Understanding middleware in Express.js

In this article I'm going to take a deep dive into Express' middleware concept, how it works, and how you can leverage it to build modular applications.

learns

An introduction to the container ecosystem

It seems people are really great at making new technologies, but no one has quite figured out how to explain them to those who are new.

learns

Importing pgp keys from keybase into gpg

This can be useful for a number of things including singing git commits which uses gpg. If you don't have gpg already installed, you can install it with most package managers on unix systems, on macos you can brew install gpg. Assuming you have

learns

Installing and configuring PostgreSQL on macOS (OSX)

A simple installation of postgres for macOS/OSX using homebrew and the postgres docs.

open source

mdpdf 1.3 release - headers footers and more

This week version 1.3 of mdpdf has been released, I thought I'd take a moment to run through a few of the updates and improvements that have been made since 1.0. You can download the latest version from npm or GitHub. New

open source

Introducing mdpdf

I've been using the atom package markdown-pdf and it's been okay but it hasn't got a few features I want. For starters it uses html-pdf which has header and footer capabilities but setting the size of these isn't possible with markdown-pdf which means it

education

Officer

Some of my latest articles prelude quite obviously to what I'm about to say. I built a chatbot. Yeah... Sorry about that. But this one is slightly different, I promise! The project Announcing Officer, the Natural Language Processing (NLP) automation bot. At first it

open source

BotBuilder on demand entity recognition

So the "global recogniser" from 3.5 isn't really all that "global" it seems. When in the middle of a dialog exchange, it won't actually recognise entities and pass them through to the next function in the waterfall. This is

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