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Serve a static website using Cloud Run

Cloud Run is a service provided by Google that allows us to run containers in the cloud in an easy and cost effective way. I decided to give a try and host the website https://www.cursodegit.com as a container there. In this post I'll show you how I did it.

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Push docker images to Google Container Registry... running gcloud inside a docker container

In this post, we use the Access Token method to log in into Google Container Registry in order to push docker images to it. Also, instead of installing the Google Cloud SDK in our computer, we will run the gcloud commands from inside a docker container.

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Git worktrees: vida más allá de nuestro área de trabajo

On June the 1st 2021 I gave a talk for the Madrid Git Users about the git-worktree command. In this post you will find the link to the recorded session, the slides and the git repository used in the demo.

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Run Ubuntu 20.04 in an external SSD drive in a MacBook Pro

I'm committed to working efficiently in the three most common operating systems: macOS, Windows 10, and Linux. I can already work with windows and macOS. In this post, I share with you the procedure that I followed to install and run Ubuntu 20.04 from an external SSD USB Drive connected to a MacBook Pro... and why I decided to step back after I had everything ready to start working.

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Run Windows 10 in an external SSD drive in a MacBook Pro

As I wrote in a previous post, one of the things that I want to able to do is working efficiently in the three most common operating systems: macOS, Windows 10, and Linux. In this post, I share with you the procedure that I followed to install and run Windows 10 from an external SSD USB Drive

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My goals for 2021

My personal and professional goals for 2021. Even though I set goals every Christmas, I usually forget about them around February. I'm sure that writing them down and sharing them here will help me to revisit them often and keep my focus on what I want to achieve.

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screen vs. nohup - Which one is better?

A follow-up of the previous article about the screen command. Given the ton of features that screen has, when is it better to use nohup?

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The screen command

The screen command has many use cases. In this post I show you how I use it to run long-running scripts in the background so I can disconnect from the server while the script runs. A very useful command to have in your toolset!

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Running exercism inside a docker container

exercism.io is a nice project to learn programming languages. It has a command-line utility called exercism and in this post I will configure a docker container to run it.

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About this blog: Working with multiple operating systems

In March this year, we had the first big lockdown due to COVID-19. I used that extra time at home to rethink the way I use my computer to work. I decided to change it.

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Running the script youtube-dl inside a docker container

youtube-dl is a python script that lets you download YouTube videos. In this post I'll tell what I did to run the script from inside a docker container.

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About this blog: Docker

What will you find in the blog related to docker? I've made a decision about how I'm going to use docker and I share with you in this post.

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The Raspberry Pi project: Hardware

After a few years I finally decided to buy a Raspberry Pi and do something with it. In this post I talk about the hardware that I bought and what I'm building with it as the first step of my project.

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Hack a startup

A post about my experience after attending to my first suppoused Hackathon. Long story short: I went to a hackathon that was not a hackathon and I won!

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Upload big files to OVH Cloud Storage

Ever needed to upload a big file (~250Gigabytes) to OVH Cloud Storage? I found myself having to do it to store some Plesk backup files. In this article I document how I did it.

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Javascript for hobbyist

A friend of mine asked me about javascript, a sort of simple explanation of the "whole picture" of the javascript ecosystem for nonprofessional developers. Instead of sending him an audio file through Whatsapp, I wrote a post about what is javascript, the DOM, AJAX, libraries and frameworks.

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