Cleanup (#2)

* new dockerfile to build locally

* clean up docs for build

* new article

* readme

Author: JohnCSimon

Dockerfile

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+FROM ruby:3.4
+
+# Set the working directory
+WORKDIR /site
+
+# Copy the site files
+COPY blog /site
+
+# Install site dependencies
+RUN bundle install
+
+# Build the site
+RUN bundle exec jekyll build
+
+# Copy the built site to a separate directory
+RUN mkdir /output && cp -r _site/* /output/
+
+# Expose Jekyll default port
+EXPOSE 4000
+
+# Serve the site
+CMD ["bundle", "exec", "jekyll", "serve", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--watch", "--drafts"]

Gemfile.lock

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+I"	{"title" => "🌲 johncsimon.github.io 🐦", "author" => "Abhinav Saxena", "url" => "http://0.0.0.0:4000", "description" => "got some downtime so how's about we starts ourselves a blog ...", "favicon" => "./logo.png", "remote_theme" => "abhinavs/moonwalk", "theme_config" => {"appearance" => "dark", "back_home_text" => "home..", "date_format" => "%Y-%m-%d", "show_description" => true, "show_navbar" => true, "show_footer" => true, "show_projects" => true, "show_old_projects" => true, "show_misc_list" => false}, "sass" => {"style" => :compressed}, "source" => "/site", "destination" => "/site/_site", "collections_dir" => "", "cache_dir" => ".jekyll-cache", "plugins_dir" => "_plugins", "layouts_dir" => "_layouts", "data_dir" => "_data", "includes_dir" => "_includes", "collections" => {"posts" => {"output" => true, "permalink" => "/:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title:output_ext"}}, "safe" => false, "include" => [".htaccess"], "exclude" => [".sass-cache", ".jekyll-cache", "gemfiles", "Gemfile", "Gemfile.lock", "node_modules", "vendor/bundle/", "vendor/cache/", "vendor/gems/", "vendor/ruby/"], "keep_files" => [".git", ".svn"], "encoding" => "utf-8", "markdown_ext" => "markdown,mkdown,mkdn,mkd,md", "strict_front_matter" => false, "show_drafts" => true, "limit_posts" => 0, "future" => false, "unpublished" => false, "whitelist" => [], "plugins" => ["jekyll-feed"], "markdown" => "kramdown", "highlighter" => "rouge", "lsi" => false, "excerpt_separator" => "\n\n", "incremental" => false, "detach" => false, "port" => "4000", "host" => "0.0.0.0", "baseurl" => nil, "show_dir_listing" => false, "permalink" => "date", "paginate_path" => "/page:num", "timezone" => nil, "quiet" => false, "verbose" => false, "defaults" => [], "liquid" => {"error_mode" => "warn", "strict_filters" => false, "strict_variables" => false}, "kramdown" => {"auto_ids" => true, "toc_levels" => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], "entity_output" => "as_char", "smart_quotes" => "lsquo,rsquo,ldquo,rdquo", "input" => "GFM", "hard_wrap" => false, "guess_lang" => true, "footnote_nr" => 1, "show_warnings" => false, "syntax_highlighter" => "rouge", "syntax_highlighter_opts" => {default_lang: "plaintext", guess_lang: true}, "coderay" => {}}, "github_username" => "johncsimon", "theme" => "moonwalk", "watch" => true, "livereload_port" => 35729, "serving" => true}:ET

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<p>I’m currently reading a contemporary history of Steve Jobs’s time with the creation and unraveling of NeXT Computer - <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226316.Steve_Jobs_the_NeXT_Big_Thing">Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing</a>.
+<img src="jobscover.png" alt="Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing" width="250" /></p>
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+I"N<p>got some downtime so how’s about we starts ourselves a blog …</p>
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�<p>I’m a software dev with Go, Javascript and C#. I’m writing this blog to better at writing and to document my explorations.</p>
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+I"b.<p>I like to play around with lots of different programming languages, but install too many and they pollute your working environment, so it’s better to have them installed as a user instead of root. 
+Here’s a way to get several of them installed into your unix user directory. 
+If things go wrong, or you get bored you can easily <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">rm -rf</code> the installation.</p>
+
+<h1 id="initial-install">Initial Install</h1>
+<p>Let’s get ourselves a minimal debian environment. I’m using docker here, but you can use a native install, or a VM, or Windows Services for Linux with the ubuntu install.</p>
+<div class="language-shell highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>john@BigBox:~/git/JohnCSimon.github.io<span class="nv">$ </span> <span class="nb">sudo </span>docker run <span class="nt">-ti</span> debian /bin/bash
+Unable to find image <span class="s1">'debian:latest'</span> locally
+latest: Pulling from library/debian
+cd8eada9c7bb: Pull <span class="nb">complete
+</span>Digest: sha256:58a80e0b6aa4d960ee2a5452b0230c406c47ed30a66555ba753c8e1710a434f5
+Status: Downloaded newer image <span class="k">for </span>debian:latest
+root@6d933dddbbcd:/#
+</code></pre></div></div>
+<p>Just to satisfy my OCD let’s get the latest updates.</p>
+
+<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">apt update &amp;&amp; apt upgrade -y</code></p>
+
+<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">apt install gnupg2 curl procps -y</code>
+ Installs gpg2, curl and ps</p>
+
+<h1 id="ruby">ruby</h1>
+<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">gpg2 --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB</code></p>
+
+<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable</code></p>
+
+<p>To start using RVM you need to run <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh</code> or re-login to re-load <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">~/.profile</code></p>
+
+<p>From here you can run - <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">rvm list known</code> and you’ll see a list of ruby flavors and individual versions.</p>
+
+<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="c"># MRI Rubies</span>
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]1.8.6[-p420]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]1.8.7[-head] <span class="c"># security released on head</span>
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]1.9.1[-p431]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]1.9.2[-p330]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]1.9.3[-p551]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]2.0.0[-p648]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]2.1[.10]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]2.2[.10]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]2.3[.8]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]2.4[.5]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]2.5[.3]
+<span class="o">[</span>ruby-]2.6[.0]
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>MRI Ruby is the reference version of Ruby so let’s install the latest version.</p>
+
+<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">rvm install ruby-2.6.0</code></p>
+
+<p>I’m running debian and rvm might ask for your root password to install some prerequsites from apt before compiling a new version.</p>
+
+<p>Congrats, you now have a ruby install</p>
+
+<div class="language-shell highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>ruby <span class="nt">-v</span>
+ruby 2.6.0p0 <span class="o">(</span>2018-12-25 revision 66547<span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">[</span>x86_64-linux]
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>from here you can now do whatever since I’m blogging this using jekyll</p>
+
+<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">gem install bundler jekyll</code></p>
+
+<h1 id="go">go</h1>
+<p>Go is a language that releases new versions on a regular basis. 
+There’s a similar tool to rvm called gvm. It’s a “go version manager” available from here <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">https://github.com/moovweb/gvm</code> that’ll let you install multiple versions and set $GOPATH and $GOROOT.</p>
+
+<p>as a regular user:</p>
+<div class="language-shell highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>bash &lt; &lt;<span class="o">(</span>curl <span class="nt">-s</span> <span class="nt">-S</span> <span class="nt">-L</span> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moovweb/gvm/master/binscripts/gvm-installer<span class="o">)</span>
+Cloning from https://github.com/moovweb/gvm.git to /root/.gvm
+No existing Go versions detected
+Installed GVM v1.0.22
+
+Please restart your terminal session or to get started right away run
+ <span class="sb">`</span><span class="nb">source</span> /root/.gvm/scripts/gvm<span class="sb">`</span>
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>you should be able to run and see</p>
+<div class="language-shell highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>gvm version
+Go Version Manager v1.0.22 installed at /home/john/.gvm
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Run <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">gvm listall</code>
+which will give you a list of all the available versions of go.</p>
+
+<div class="language-shell highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$gvm</span> listall
+
+gvm gos <span class="o">(</span>available<span class="o">)</span>
+
+   go1
+   go1.0.1
+   ...
+   go1.11rc1
+   go1.11rc2
+   go1.11.1
+   go1.11.2
+   go1.11.3
+   go1.11.4
+   go1.12beta1
+   go1.12beta2
+</code></pre></div></div>
+<p>of which there are entirely too many.</p>
+
+<p>From here, we can install go as our user via binary here:</p>
+
+<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">gvm install go1.4 -B</code></p>
+
+<p>try it out</p>
+<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>go version
+go version go1.4 linux/amd64
+</code></pre></div></div>
+<p>We can see it gets installed here:</p>
+<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="nv">$GOROOT</span>
+/home/john/.gvm/gos/go1.4
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>From the gvm link earlier, in order to compile a go build environment for versions 1.5 on we require another go build environment. 
+Go compiles itself! Neat huh?</p>
+
+<p>As of now the latest version is go1.11.4</p>
+<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">export </span><span class="nv">GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$GOROOT</span>
+<span class="nv">$ </span>gvm <span class="nb">install </span>go1.11.4
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>go version
+go version go1.4 linux/amd64
+</code></pre></div></div>
+<p>you can run
+<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">gvm use        - select a go version to use (--default to set permanently)</code></p>
+
+<div class="language-shell highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>gvm use go1.11.4 <span class="nt">--default</span>
+Now using version go1.11.4
+<span class="nv">$ </span>go version
+go version go1.11.4 linux/amd64
+<span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="nv">$GOROOT</span>
+/home/john/.gvm/gos/go1.11.4
+<span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="nv">$GOPATH</span>
+/home/john/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.11.4/global
+<span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">ls</span> /home/john/.gvm/gos/go1.11.4
+AUTHORS  CONTRIBUTING.md  CONTRIBUTORS  LICENSE  PATENTS  README.md  VERSION  api  bin  doc  favicon.ico  lib  manifest  misc  pkg  robots.txt  src  <span class="nb">test
+ls</span> <span class="nv">$GOPATH</span>
+overlay  pkg  src
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>Be sure to set –default so you keep the same version when you relaunch the shell, so that whatever you install stays where you expect it.</p>
+
+<h1 id="node-js">node js</h1>
+<p>node.js, the server side javascript framework</p>
+
+<p>nvm is Node Version Manager. Install it like this:
+<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash</code></p>
+
+<p>Since there are major revisions to the javascript language between node 4, 6, 8 I’ve found I’ve had to switch more often between these versions according to project than I did with other languages.</p>
+
+<p>You can run <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">nvm ls-remote</code> and get a list of all the node versions available</p>
+
+<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>$ nvm
+Example:
+  nvm install 8.0.0                     Install a specific version number
+  nvm use 8.0                           Use the latest available 8.0.x release
+  nvm run 6.10.3 app.js                 Run app.js using node 6.10.3
+  nvm exec 4.8.3 node app.js            Run `node app.js` with the PATH pointing to node 4.8.3
+  nvm alias default 8.1.0               Set default node version on a shell
+  nvm alias default node                Always default to the latest available node version on a shell
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>so if you run</p>
+
+<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>nvm <span class="nb">install </span>10
+Downloading and installing node v10.15.0...
+Downloading https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.0/node-v10.15.0-linux-x64.tar.gz...
+<span class="c">######################################################################## 100.0%</span>
+Computing checksum with <span class="nb">sha256sum
+</span>Checksums matched!
+Now using node v10.15.0 <span class="o">(</span>npm v6.4.1<span class="o">)</span>
+Creating default <span class="nb">alias</span>: default -&gt; 10 <span class="o">(</span>-&gt; v10.15.0<span class="o">)</span>
+
+<span class="nv">$ </span>whereis node
+node: /home/john/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.0/bin/node
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>and you can set it to be the default so the setting persists between sessions</p>
+<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>nvm alias default 10
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>So now you can run:</p>
+<div class="language-shell highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>node <span class="nt">-v</span>
+v10.15.0
+<span class="nv">$ </span>npm <span class="nt">-v</span>
+6.4.1
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<h1 id="rust">rust</h1>
+<p>Rust is another language that sees regular updates. You’ll just have to check which is the version for the 2015 and 2018 edition.</p>
+
+<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
+
+
+
+Current installation options:
+
+   default host triple: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+     default toolchain: stable
+  modify PATH variable: yes
+
+1) Proceed with installation (default)
+2) Customize installation
+3) Cancel installation
+&gt;
+
+select 1 
+
+To configure your current shell run source $HOME/.cargo/env
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
+<p>add <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">$HOME/.cargo/env</code> to your path in .bashrc</p>
+
+<div class="language-shell highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>whereis cargo
+cargo: /home/john/.cargo/bin/cargo
+<span class="nv">$ </span>whereis rustc
+cargo: /home/john/.cargo/bin/rustc
+</code></pre></div></div>
+
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<p>I like to play around with lots of different programming languages, but install too many and they pollute your working environment, so it’s better to have them installed as a user instead of root. 
+Here’s a way to get several of them installed into your unix user directory. 
+If things go wrong, or you get bored you can easily <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">rm -rf</code> the installation.</p>
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