Month: April 2020

Sebastian Cabrol — Argentinian illustrator

I discovered this artist a while back on Facebook. However, like most things my reminder of him sat hidden in my saved posts — hence my page here.

These are the initial images that I was shown in that first post. I will title them as I learn them and find some favourites when I become more versed in Sebastian’s work.

Quick Facts

  • Sebastian has worked on Marvel comic ‘Falcon’ – His issues.

External Links

https://cabrol.artstation.com/projects

https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/13510/sebastian_cabrol

On Keeping a Commonplace book/site

From Wikipedia:

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts. Each one is unique to its creator’s particular interests but they almost always include passages found in other texts, sometimes accompanied by the compiler’s responses. They became significant in Early Modern Europe.
Wikipedia extract on Commonplace books.

As soon as I heard about the idea of a commonplace I was immediately interested and wanted to start keeping one myself. But then I soon realised — my website is kind of on the way to becoming what I would call my own commonplace. I tend to write about a bunch of things that interest me, and had even begun saving quotes from the few books I read.

Not only will this give me a new angle at which to come at mt personal site from, I think it will even aid in ridding me of the occasional writer’s block, whatever that is. If I start writing little and often — some personal notes and some posts — it can only do good things for my writing habits. 🙂

External Links

How and why to keep a commonplace book — Ryan Holiday.

Marginalia — Wikipedia.

Mark Twain’s Marginalia.

Everyone Should Keep A Commonplace Book: Great Tips From People Who Do.

All about commonplacing.

How to Keep a Digital Commonplace.

Docker braindump

A collection of my learnings, notes and musings on Docker.

These are currently random notes and are not much help to anybody yet. They will get tidied as I add to the page.

Docker Swarm

Docker swarm secrets

From inside a docker swarm manager node, there are two ways of creating a secret.

Using a string value:

printf <your_secret_value> | docker secret create your_secret_key -

Using a file path:

docker secret create your_secret_key ./your_secret_value.json

Docker swarm secrets are saved, encrypted, and are accessible to containers via a filepath:

/run/secrets/your_secret_key.

Posts to digest

https://www.bretfisher.com/docker-swarm-firewall-ports/

https://www.bretfisher.com/docker/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-laravel-nginx-and-mysql-with-docker-compose

Been learning to use Docker Swarm

Despite not yet managing to get what I have learnt implemented, I have nonetheless took on board some good concepts around docker and docker swarm

After getting half-way through a Docker Mastery series on Udemy, I decided I would like to move my WordPress website, this one, to using a 3-node swarm.

After a few days of editing and re-arranging my docker-compose.yml file (the local dev configuration file that can also be used for starting up a swarm since compose version 3.3) I have decided to just keep my website hosted on its single regular server. (Although I had already moved the database to its own dedicated server).

Despite the fact that I haven’t actually managed to move over to using a swarm (and to be honest it isn’t even needed for me) I have managed to dive into a bunch of concepts around Docker and its Swarm component and feel that I have added a few new things to me dev toolkit.

I think I will definitely be putting together a little demo in a swarm across three separate servers. But for now I will keep my website settled as it is. 😀

What I have learned – or rather reminded myself of, whilst sat in at home during this damn isolation, is that it is important to keep looking into complimentary technologies around my everyday development skill set.

The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions can now be pre-ordered

Junji Ito displaying his Art book

The upcoming book, The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions, is now available for pre-order at the following places:

Amazon

Book Depository

Waterstones

It will be officially released on the 14th May 2020.

From the picture above it looks like its a good size too — a little larger than A4 size I reckon. All the better to focus in on Junji Ito’s excellent craftsmanship and twisted imagery.

I’m looking forward to this one as it looks to contain many pieces of Junji Ito’s original artwork. Perhaps even some that were cut from some of his stories?

Snippet from Twisted Visions

How excited are you for this new book?

New horror manga – Genkai Chitai (Disturbing Zone) released in Japan

Junji Ito has launched a brand new horror manga called Genkai Chitai, which is Japanese for Disturbing Zone.

Junji Ito has launched a brand new horror manga called Genkai Chitai, which is Japanese for Disturbing Zone. It seems to be a part of a new horror omnibus series called “Phantom Zone”.

From what I can find out so far, it revolves around the more mundane aspects of every day life and how strange occurrences around those things happen. No doubt bringing weird and interesting horror themes into the lives of some very unsuspecting characters.

It has been released through a publication called “Line”. I have found a website called Line Manga, however, it is only available to be viewed from Japan. 🙁

I’m really looking forward to reading this one and can’t wait for an official U.K. release.

Excerpt from Junji Ito new manga, Disturbing Zone