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I made my daughter a book for her first birthday. — Juan Uys
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I made my daughter a book for her first birthday. Apr 17, 2014. Yes, made – not wrote. See below. My day is a grab-bag of abstract concepts, data as shapes moving from system to system on pathways built with tools I love dearly. However, every now and then I want to inject some characters and narrative into my life. I started in earnest. But truth be told that a Picture Book is not an overnight endeavour. Meanwhile, Little One was born. Slow and considered sketches were soon replaced by frantic night...
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Posts Tagged “tech” — Juan Uys
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Dec 30, 2015 — Twenty Fifteen. Dec 31, 2014 — 2014 the year in review. Jan 29, 2014 — More jq fun. Dec 31, 2013 — 2103 the year's code and tooling in review. Dec 13, 2013 — Heuristics. Nov 10, 2013 — A webwords Chef cookbook. Nov 05, 2013 — Pretty-print JSON in vim. Nov 02, 2013 — Dell XPS 13 LE. Nov 01, 2013 — AngularJS and Internet Explorer woes. Nov 20, 2012 — Pollarize architecture at a glance. Oct 15, 2012 — Adding SMS functionality with Twilio. Jul 31, 2012 — Semantic Web Deep Dive.
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2014 — the year in review — Juan Uys
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2014 the year in review. Dec 31, 2014. Hellip;let’s get the big news out of the way. This year I got married. We have a lovely daughter, made a beautiful home together, and a few years of togetherness, and really just wanted to celebrate these blessings with friends and family. Besides, my partner is gorgeous, and I just had to go ball and chain on her :-P. This year saw me Dockerize all the things. Linux containers is the best thing since diced bacon, and really unleashes servers. It’s like trying...
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Posts Tagged “postgresql” — Juan Uys
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Jun 17, 2015 — Add logging to PostgresQL on Docker. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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A webwords Chef cookbook — Juan Uys
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A webwords Chef cookbook. Nov 10, 2013. There are a lot of new examples. Up on the Typesafe website, a few with the word “Reactive” in them to drive home the credo. Behind the framework. One of my favourite examples, however, seem to have been demoted but still remains one of my favourites: webwords. The old Heroku link. To the live running instance of webwords does not seem to be up anymore, so I whipped up a quick Chef cookbook with which to spin up your own local instance. Spin it up and have fun.
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Posts Tagged “fatherhood” — Juan Uys
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Apr 17, 2014 — I made my daughter a book for her first birthday. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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Résumé — Juan Uys
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I’m a London-based. South African who has been doing tech work since 2002. I’ve designed, architected and implemented entire social networks and ecommerce systems, while also assuming the role of developer, ops, analyst and tester throughout (a given for single technical co-founders). Most information about said activity can be found on my personal. Websites, or my StackOverflow careers profile. Conde Nast Commerce (as Unleash Your Server. Build their new ecommerce website. I’ve always wanted to fo...
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2103 — the year's code and tooling in review — Juan Uys
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2103 the year's code and tooling in review. Dec 31, 2013. I saw the #code2013 hashtag on Twitter last night and joined in. It got me thinking about the stuff around the programming languages I use, and my professional skillset in general. I’ll briefly touch on how a few major events in my life forced me to cut the fat and become more focused. A few notes, then. And XYZ”. Oh, and then the reactive course. Was fun too, and highlighted a few holes in my Akka education. I’m a big fan of Pylons. With the fame...
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A tale of two money transfers — Juan Uys
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A tale of two money transfers. Jun 14, 2015. I use GBP, and my contractor in Italy uses EUR, but we “talk” USD. The first payment came up, and I was recommended TransferWise. By my friends in the trenches. I go online to TransferWise and select USD from the dropdown, and go through all the steps. Finally, TransferWise tells me to send them money in Estonia from my Internet banking account, which I do. But — weird — I thought. Weren’t they supposed to make all this easier for me? Ldquo;I don’t see a...
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Posts Tagged “docker” — Juan Uys
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Jun 17, 2015 — Add logging to PostgresQL on Docker. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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