Its That Time Again

personal

• healthier me
  • have lost 11.7 lbs so far
  • tracking my food via MyFitnessPal
  • walking extra when I can (I like gamification, so this is “earning taste points”)
  • just reduced my caloric intake by another 200 to go even faster
• yard work: part C
  • done: mow (grows so fast in Spring)
  • pending: mulch, flowers, cutting down extra trees and shrubs
  • success: spray for bugs is working on bag worms (didn’t see that coming)
  • grrr: dandelions are everywhere, birds trying to build nest in my grill

projects

• mongodb-workbench (aka mw (formerly mongosaurus))
  • trying out electron from the Atom project rather than nw.js (actually started working on this while it was still atom-shell)
  • refactored “server” and “database” to use plugins for sub-sections
  • pending: refactoring “collection” tab to use plugins for sub-sections
  • toying around with using gulp, babel, less, uglify, etc. for building an actual release files
• docker
  • a nice way of quickly spinning up Linux-based VMs
  • great for simplifing complex local development environments
  • amazing for deployments to test and production environments – with this why would I ever want something like chef? :-)
  • kitematic is a nice introductory UI that helps simplify some of the extra complications involved with docker container mangement on Mac OS X (due to having to use boot2docker between the VirtualBox VM and your actual docker containers)
  • curious if it could use VMs via the built-in Mac OS X Yosemite hypervisor (lighter weight? would just be a new docker-machine target probably)
  • suspiciously like SmartOS images but with tools that are a bit more developer oriented
  • excited to try the new docker stuff from Joyent, aka Triton, but still waiting on my early access to the beta program to kick in :-/