Business and IT don't always understand each other. Cucumber's executable specifications encourage closer collaboration, helping teams keep the business goal in mind at all times.

#testing #devops

Kitchen provides a test harness to execute infrastructure code on one or more platforms in isolation.

#docker #testing #devops

Fast, free and open-source spam filtering system.

#spam #email

Powered by Docker, you can install Dokku on any hardware. Use it on inexpensive cloud providers. Once it's set up on a host, you can push Heroku-compatible applications to it via Git. They'll build using Heroku buildpacks and then run in isolated containers. The end result is your own, single-host version of Heroku.

Looks really nice. Don't have any use case now, though. #paas #docker #container

Pocket Casts, widely considered to be one of the best mobile apps for podcast listening, has been acquired by a collective group that includes NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago, and This American Life.

Interesting move. I don't hope this is all about putting advertising in the app. I'm not in the mood to switch my podcasting app.

#media #podcast

Tenon.io can identify 508 and WCAG 2.0 issues in any environment - even on your developer's laptop. Because production is a bad place to discover bugs.

Check your website for accessibility issues. #a11y #web #development

Ensure a proper contrast when choosing colors for your design.

#a11y #color #design #web

CompendiumNG, is a powerful application that lets you create extensive maps using nodes and link structure. Common usages of Compendium include: dialog mapping and mind mapping but its uses are almost limitless.

Looks promising for advanced mind-mapping, but the installation process and the docs are quite cumbersome. We'll see. #mindmapping #creativity #knowledge

SDKMAN! is a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems. It provides a convenient Command Line Interface (CLI) and API for installing, switching, removing and listing Candidates. Formerly known as GVM the Groovy enVironment Manager, it was inspired by the very useful RVM and rbenv tools, used at large by the Ruby community.

#development #sdk #ruby

exa is a modern replacement for ls. It uses colours for information by default, helping you distinguish between many types of files, such as whether you are the owner, or in the owning group. It also has extra features not present in the original ls, such as viewing the Git status for a directory, or recursing into directories with a tree view. exa is written in Rust, so it’s small, fast, and portable.

#linux #shell

dtrx stands for “Do The Right Extraction.” It's a tool for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives.

#linux #shell

The online IDE for web applications. Powered by VS Code.

#development #javascript #web2.0

NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool. Initially conceived by the network engineering team at DigitalOcean, NetBox was developed specifically to address the needs of network and infrastructure engineers.

#work #network #admin #ipam #dcim

The FUJITSU Tablet STYLISTIC Q738 is a highly durable and secure 2–in-1 detachable that meets the demands of today’s mobile professionals. Its 33.8 cm (13.3-inch) FHD anti-glare display with pen and touch support, and 8th generation Intel^® Core™ i7 processor technology ensure excellent performance, even when you’re on the go.

Quite a nice business tablet. #tablet #windows #hardware

The Librem 15 is the first ultra-portable workstation laptop that was designed chip-by-chip, line-by-line, to respect your rights to privacy, security, and freedom. Every hardware and software component—and everything we do—is in line with our belief in respecting your rights to privacy, security, and freedom.

#hardware #privacy

We automatically learn from millions of available software programs and use this knowledge to make key suggestions on how to improve your code.

#development #ai

I love this take on a PWA. #pwa #media #journal

Please Disconnect from the Internet. This is an offline-only magazine of commentary, fiction, and poetry. Just disable your WiFi to view this issue.

A developer evangelist is a spokesperson, mediator and translator between a company and both its technical staff and outside developers.

If you think this would be a good role for you, here's the developer evangelist handbook which gives you some great tips on how to do this job.

#development #work

Choria makes installing The Marionette Collective easy and secure for users of modern Puppet.

You could be up and running in under 30 minutes, Puppet compatible defaults means there is very little to configure.

Seems to take the pain out of setting up MCollective. #puppet #mcollective #work

This is a guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2018.

#development #frontend