Docker on The Photonsphere

Hastl modern web-application starter template

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Looking into hastl, which is a modern Haskell web application template using (H)tmx, (A)lpine.js, (S)ervant, (T)ailwind-css and (L)ucid. It is licensed under MIT and is entirely free and open source.

NixOS Rust development environment (Docker based)

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A Rust programming language development environment can be somewhat cumbersome to set up under NixOS (e.g. to use CLevasseur/ta-lib-rust), so a solution using a Docker container is described in this article. – github.com/rust-lang (by rust-lang/people).

Haskell tooling in a Docker container

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Create a Docker image with Debian Linux in which you can install and use Haskell tooling via ghcup and that uses your computer's native GUI. This can be useful because using ghcup under NixOS is a bit of a nuisance.

Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation (TWS) container with GUI

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Create an Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation platform Docker image that uses your computer's native GUI. This can be useful when your operating system is not supported by Trader Workstation or no recent version is available.

The docker image is based on alekna/docker-ib-tws Docker image (by Laurynas Alekna), but this derived version displays the GUI directly on your host computer. Which is a lot snappier and more robust. It is also based on https://tpaschalis.github.io/sandboxed-browser-with-docker for the browser sandbox from a container and sound problems (?) fix.

Emacs editing in a Docker4Drupal container

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Create a Docker4Drupal image with support for Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). Drupal4Docker has Portainer support.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

Emacs editing in a Drupal Docker container

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Create a Drupal Docker image with support for Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). With phpMyAdmin support. Under Debian Linux of course.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

Emacs editing in a Wordpress Docker container

Fri, 23 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Create a Wordpress Docker image with Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). With phpMyAdmin support. Under Debian Linux of course.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

Emacs editing in an October CMS Docker container

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Create an October CMS Docker image with support for Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). With phpMyAdmin support. Under Debian Linux of course.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

UXBOX source code browsing with Emacs+Cider

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Clojure and ClojureScript application, which is impressive in its functionality and beautifully structured source code – UXBOX (by uxbox.io).

Using Emacs+Cider for UXBOX source code browsing under Linux. To set up Emacs for Clojure and ClojureScript with Cider, see e.g.: My Emacs configuration.

Suspend/Resume problems Docker containers

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Once upon a time, while using Debian I had a problem with Docker containers and suspend/resume.

Docker resume/thaw problems?

When you use Docker containers on your development system and experience problems after a resume from a suspend (or a thaw from a hibernate). On my Debian Stable KDE system –after a resume of my MongoDB and WildFly containers– the screensaver did not ask for a password and the computer did not respond to mouse and keyboard.