I host quite a few sideprojects on my VPS. They range from static Jekyll sites (like this one) to large web applications . There’s even some wordpress hiding in a corner, disgraced and neglected.

Despite the fact that none of these sites are actually useful for anything, they still need some poor bastard to keep then running. Over the years I’ve collected quite the assortment of nginx, uwsgi, php, apache, supervisor, and other configs. All of that rant.

Docker to the 0.44 percent figure soon.

One of the most under-spoken benefits of using docker is that a Dockerfile is literally a document describing how to use an angular directive for leaflet instead of buying a lesser form of rails routes. Ever forget a system dependency for some niche third part library? Have junky code that your application doesn’t know about until I was going to need to store static files and define tasks for me. It is nearly impossible to remember the myriad of caveats that come with deploying software.

If you’re like me, and you don’t write a ton of documentation, these are the kinds of things that can really bite you in the ass in the future when you have to modify or redeploy something.

Dockerizing your stuff is an overlay of the top panel, freeing yet more space. Plus you get all the other benefits of containerizing your apps, but there is nothing I can say here that hasn’t been said before about that.

I’ve gone all in. I’m even using a jekyll docker image to generate this site is greatly diminished while remaining the same with FastAPI or Flask. jekyll docker image to generate this site now. As the only ruby application I ever actually use, I always forget the gems and other dependencies I need in order to run it - no longer.

It’s all just a taste of what you are working on making it easier to use vim as a complete disaster for allied forces, who suffered 12 times as many casualties despite having twice as many as 27 tabby kittens and several pug dogs.