A Beginner’s Guide to Editing Text Like a Pro — Vim is a powerful and ubiquitous text editor that comes pre-installed on many Unix-based systems. It is also the default editor for git, which means that you may encounter it when you’re committing changes or doing an interactive rebase. However, Vim’s user interface and user experience can be somewhat counter-intuitive…

Celebrating Docker’s 10th Birthday — Docker was introduced at PyCon 2013 and was released in March, making history and revolutionizing software engineering forever. To celebrate its 10th birthday, I’m going to list 10 Docker commands you probably didn’t know about. 🐳 1. Docker Init 🎂 You probably didn’t know about this command, because it was introduced in Docker Desktop 4.18…

On What Docker Scout Has to Offer — Upon the recent release of Docker Scout, a subcommand in the Docker toolchain, I published an article titled “Docker Scout vs Scan”, examining the two subcommands in terms of their interfaces, licensing, and features. Following conversations with Amy Bass, Docker product manager, and Christian Dupuis, the lead engineer working on…

On Squash Merge and When to Use It — Git Weekly #34 Level: Intermediate 🥈 When it comes to version control systems, merging is an essential process. It allows developers to combine code changes made in different branches, ensuring that everyone is working with the latest and most up-to-date version of the codebase. There are various methods of merging…

on GitHub and GitLab — Git Weekly #33 Level: Beginner 🎄 It’s generally a good practice to mention the issue you’re fixing in the commit that fixes it. …

Brief Comparison of Integrated Docker Supply Chain Security Solutions — Updated on 06.03.2023 Vulnerability scanning for local Docker images was introduced in late 2020 with the command docker scan. The Docker Scan command would use Snyk’s engine to scan Docker images for security vulnerabilities and create a list of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Around a week ago, Docker introduced…

And How to Set It Up — Git Weekly #32 Level: Beginner 🎄 Nowadays, the final product of most of the git repositories is a Docker image, that is then used in a Kubernetes deployment. …

How to Not Mess Up Git Blame — Git Weekly #31 Level: Beginner 🎄 Git blame is a powerful tool in git that allows you to track the changes made to a file and attribute them to a specific contributor. This tool is particularly useful when you need to understand the history of a particular line of code…

Introducing Git Switch and Restore — Git Weekly #30 Level: Beginner 🎄 A year ago, I would switch between branches with the following command: git checkout master And by doing a git status, the output would look like this: On branch master Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. Changes not staged for commit: (use "git…