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This year, like last year, I want to read some good software engineering books. These are the ones I currently have on my reading list:

At work, we’re using Docker multi-stage builds to get smaller image sizes. I thought I’d try it out with a small learning project.

At work we have to add the Jira issue number to each pull request, branch and commit. This is to help Management with planning.

We use Docker at work and so I find myself running the same commands over and over. To save time I saved frequent docker and docker-compose commands as aliases and functions.

Hugo version 0.43 introduced Hugo Pipes which processes assets e.g. save preprocessed Sass files to CSS files. I finally got round to adding this as part of adapting the Ghostwriter theme I use on my site (a forked Ghostwriter theme by Juraj Bubniak).

Some build pipelines have steps which are only triggered if a certain phrase is contained in the commit message. The problem is sometimes e.

In June I attended a DevOps conference in Barcelona. Whilst I work in web development, I have a growing interest in DevOps which is mainly due to my previous career in supply chain and lean.

Time really does fly. As I write this, I have unlocked the two year milestone of working as a professional software engineer.

Python is a wonderful language for beginners but I remember when starting out how Pip, the defacto package manager for Python (at least at the time) didn’t seem as fully featured as others such as npm.

Adding code snippets in your IDE are a great way of saving key strokes on code that you often use.