A few photos from Scotland in 2016.

Today marks one month since I stopped being the main breadwinner, giving me some time to reflect on life as a stay-at-home dad. The last few weeks have been absolutely packed: travelling and moving to Nancy, finding an apartment, arranging electricity and fast internet, and keeping our daughter healthy and happy. Here is a brief update on the journey so far, followed by a few goals for our time here.

A few photos from my holiday in Dubai.

I took a quick trip to Auckland and Napier to visit my dad and Cathy. We mainly caught up over conversation, beer, and a coffee or two. I also discovered that my dad is a bit of a hustler at pool. Dad resting outside Uncle Christopher’s place in Auckland

I’ve recently started using OSX (again), and am really enjoying it (again). One Windows-only tool that I found really useful is Geosetter, which allows you to add geo coordinates into photos. There don’t appear to be any free geocoding tools that work to my satisfaction to do this, so the next best thing was geocode like you would using Linux. Here’s how. We’re going to use the command line program ExifTool (by Phil Harvey) to extract coordinates from a gpx file and embed them in a directory of images.

There are some wonderful CI / CD tools out there right now, and some of them have very usable free tiers. A few good examples include Shippable, Wercker, CloudBees, and Snap-CI. There are others, of course, but these all allow at least one private project to get started. I have recently moved my projects to Snap, and my hack for the day needed to be deployed to OpenShift. Although Snap has built in integrations for some providers, no such integration currently exists for OpenShift (yet!). However, it takes less than 10 minutes to configure a Deploy step to OpenShift, and here’s how.

I have recently had the opportunity to begin exploring Docker, the currently hip way to build application containers, and I generally like it. It feels a bit like using Xen back in 2005, when you still had to download it from cl.cam.ac.uk, but there is huge momentum right now. I like the idea of breaking down each component of your application into unique services and bundling them up - it seems clean. The next year is going to be very interesting with Docker, as I am especially looking forward to seeing how Google’s App Engine allows Docker usage, or what’s in store for the likes of Flynn, Deis, CoreOS, or Stackdock.