At the time of writing, there is an ongoing discussion in ECMAScript Technical Committee 39 (TC39) regarding the implementation of a pipeline operator. At the same time, there has been an open RFC in the PHP community regarding a pipe operator since 2016. It seems that multiple communities would like a pipeline operator. But why?
In this post, we will explore which problems a pipeline operator would solve and how other languages deal with these problems.
I have been using Docker for a lot of things. For example, docker-compose is extremely useful for quickly setting up a service-based development environment.
Recently, I had the need to run a command once in a Docker image and do something with the file output. For instance, this is quite useful when encapsulating a compilation step or when processing data from one file to another using a docker image, so a user only needs docker as a dependency and the image does the rest.
In this short post, we will explore using files in one-off docker commands with and without defining a custom Dockerfile.
Nowadays, it is important to offer a secure connection through your website via HTTPS and TLS/SSL. Getting a certificate used to be costly and difficult. Luckily, Let’s Encrypt offers a free and relatively simple way of setting up HTTPS for a certain domain.
Certificates from Let’s Encrypt are valid for 90 days. This means that we have to manually renew our certificate and update our site. At the time of writing, GitLab.com does not have a way of automatically renewing certificates for GitLab pages that use their own domain name.
In this post, we will configure Let’s Encrypt for our GitLab pages site, under a custom domain, but hosted on GitLab.com. We will automate the process using GitLab CI, Personal Access Tokens and gitlab-le.
As a lecturer at the Hogeschool Utrecht, I teach Python to students who are mostly new to programming. Having recently restarted my attempts to learn Haskell, I can relate to students' feelings of being lost or overwhelmed. It takes me back to when I first started writing code. Not only does it give me the joy of learning something new, the process gives me insight in the things we take for granted when talking about code and learning a language: syntax, problem decomposition, patterns and approaches.
In this post, we explore the similarities and differences in imperative and functional approaches to accumulating values over a sequence using Python and Haskell.