Luxembourg is a city-state just north of Nancy, and we chose it as the cheapest place from which to fly to Portugal. It is a marvellous little city, with wonderful parks surrounding the city centre. The views from the Pétrusse Casemates were especially lovely. During one of our walks, we happened upon a giant wooden playground unlike anything I had seen before. Eva loved it, even though she had only just learned to walk.

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.