Finnian Anderson

Some readers will know, but most will not, that I am a bit of a self-confessed foodie.

I spent today getting Facebook’s new WYSIWYG editor “Lexical” working with Rails & ActionText.

I was until recently working on a Ruby on Rails project as part of my day job, which used Paperclip for attaching files within the application.

I’ve recently been working on a new project at work which utilises Rails and Hotwire.

In this post, I’m going to cover the use of some popular open-source technologies, that when combined together provide an extremely powerful developer experience.

Yesterday (March 10th), the server which my old blog was hosted on got melted.

I've recently been working on a top secret React Native project, powered by a Rails backend deployed to Heroku.

Introduction This is the first post in a series that I plan on writing, which will cover the build and (hopefully!)

It’s been a while since I blogged last, 238 days to be precise 😳 This post is going to be a bit different to my usual ones.

With the advent of iOS 12, the Workflow app has been replaced with Shortcuts which is the new app for creating custom shortcuts.

There are lots of strange things in that title.

For DockerCon EU in Copenhagen back in October, Oli Callaghan and I developed a Twitter bot backed by OpenFaaS with help from Alex Ellis.

Introduction In a previous post I talked about how to deploy serverless functions to an OpenFaaS cluster with ease.

A couple of weeks ago, Let’s Encrypt announced that support for wildcard certificates was coming in Jan 2018 which got me and my devops friends very excited.

I have quite a few Nodejs repos on GitHub and until now I’ve not migrated any of them to Docker because I didn’t really know how.

Open Functions as a Service or OpenFaaS (lead by Alex Ellis) is a really neat way of implementing serverless functions with Docker.

So, DockerCon!

A couple of weeks before DockerCon 2017, Victor Coisne asked me whether I would like to create a demo for the DockerCon museum.

To be honest, it wasn’t Wordpress that was the issue.

Early days When I was 12, I was given a Raspberry Pi.

I have a bit of a complex set up with all my sites and services, mainly due to using a multitude of different tools and languages to deploy different things.

Although the PiGlow visualisation of CPU usage was pretty, we reckoned we could go a couple of steps further and integrate a much more complete tangible solution - a hardware-driven load monitor dashboard.

In my last post I described how I set up a 5-strong Raspberry Pi Docker swarm.

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine reminded me about Docker.

Do you use git to manage your site and or server files?

I recently undertook the expedition phase of my Gold Duke of Edinburgh in a Canadian open canoe.

We all love drones.

My father, Ben Anderson plays with numbers.

Today, the guys at SubjectRefresh and I competed in the Cyber Centurion Security Challenge at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.

Note: Healthy was launched about 5 months ago but I’ve only just got around to writing this post.

Friday night, or more specifically, Friday February 26th 2016 at 19:45:57, I was having a group Skype call with Alexander Craggs, Miles Budden and Tom Emmerson when Alexander started complaining that all the URL shorteners out there were becoming too long.

During the YRS Festival of Code 2015, “SubjectRefresh” and I created a revision app called Refresh.

I admit it, I’ve started writing all of my new projects in Node.js.

I recently had to create an installer for an AppleScript app (I know but I couldn’t be bothered to learn Swift and the craziness of Xcode) and it drove me round the twist looking for a decent tutorial that I could understand so that I could create my inst…

Mobile means a small device which therefore has a small screen.

For my birthday, Ben James gave me some geeky goodies including a uBlox NEO-6M GPS module.

Reflections At the end of our project our initial objectives had now been added to and matured through the development process.

Assembling the components !

Technical development Hardware Core controller This was to be the brains of the ReCoRVVA.

Last year, I and two of my friends, Ben James and Angus Ledesma, decided to create a Raspberry Pi powered robot for a Silver CREST project.

My ageing hand-me-down MacBook (late 2007 - 1GB RAM) has been serving me well - it ended it’s OS X life in the Autumn of last year and has been running Linux Mint 17 ever since - we call it the MintBook.

Whilst coding in Cambridge with the Raspberry Pi Foundation for the YRS Festival of Code, I was lucky enough to be able to glean some knowledge from Paul Hallet, who introduced me to Flask & Twilio: We take care of the messy telecom hardware and expose a…

I have a GoPro Hero 4 and love it.

Quite a while ago I saw a 0.96" OLED display for sale on Ebay for £4.45 and thought it sounded a good price.

Today I had some free time… so I decided to use my favorite gadget for something.

For my ongoing heating project I needed to be able to communicate with different nodes around the house.

I know I haven’t written anything for a while, but I have been doing stuff!

I think it is extremely useful to let your little tub of yumminess into your email (Gmail) account.