Since 2020, I’ve been deploying my personal website and coding projects by continuously deploying a git repository using Docker containers and docker-compose. Today I’d like to share how this works by writing a blog post that will go through the same continuous deployment, from markdown file all the way to your browser.

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I’ve been working as part of a product team for a while now and I’ve started to pick up on a pattern. It comes back to whether development is focused on building what I’m calling features or functions. These terms are quite similar and are quite frequently used interchangeably in software engineering - they’re very similar in definition.

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When our teams turned vertical a few months ago, we held a meeting to discuss how to keep the front-end part of the system progressing effectively. There were three front-end developers (including myself) who were moving to three separate, vertical product teams.

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I used to complain a lot whilst doing my job. Not because things were actually bad or worth complaining over, but because my ruthless perfectionism caused me to notice things that I knew could be improved, and, to their dismay, the whole team had to hear about it.

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When developing at home, I’ve “settled” for my MacBook Pro (circa 2012) and for the most part it’s been OK. Having multiple “spaces”/desktops and the adjustable split-screen has sufficed; with one space split between a terminal/editor and a web browser and maybe another web browser on another space, with Spotify etc.

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