I’ve been working through updating a fair number of Perl Modules on an older RedHat based distribution. As I’m trying to do various things, I’ve run into a number of weird issues. Enough so, I though, I should write down the things I’ve found in a blog so I can easily find it later. Then, I looked around, and found hundreds of blogs by folks who wrote down the bare basics of what it takes to write an RPM spec file, or only the things that THAT PERSON needed for THAT PROJECT....
Long story. History Since 2009, I have been using a Google product called G Suite, which has since been renamed to Google Apps for Domains, and most recently renamed to Google Workspace. This service was always free, for me, as I signed up before the free-tier was cancelled in December of 2012. I even bought my wife, Jen, a domain and set is up on G Suite before then (neiher of us could remember which year), as we were just dating at the time....
This is another post where I’m working on Hugo capabilities. This time, though, I’m mostly dealing with expanding highlight.js, which is the highlighting tool used by the PaperMod theme. Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see. [92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36m🏠/src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....
I use Docker to run several microservices across my websites. Generally, they are standalone tools and demonstrations, mostly made to teach myself how to get these things done in microservices. I recently came across the concept of utility containers. Up to now, all the containers I run are meant to run all the time, and be easily replaced by spinning up a replacement container. Utility containers, on the other hand, are literally containers that hold the bits needed to process input data into output data, do that process, then exit....