As each programmer by nature I’m lazy. I try to accomplish as much as possible in minimum effort.

So whenever I use PHP to fetch something I’m using file_get_contents to make queries, and pull data from other services. So basically my favourite snippet is this guy here:

Recently I moved my blog from Wordpress to Hugo , and that involved a lot of content fixing. One of the problems was that during the export not all HTML code was correctly transferred to markup. So I needed fix (replace) all pending <a href="https://spidersoft.com.au">spidersoft</a> to [spidersoft](https://spidersoft.com.au). What we need is just 2 simple regular expressions. One to find links <a.*?href="(.+?)".*?>(.+?)</a> Second one to replace them in reverse order [$2]($1)

I have really “old” AMI Linux instances, and I need to go with more recent MySQL versions.

As some of you noted I moved by blog into Hugo . During the build process you have to pull many git repositories to compile full project. Because begging are always hard. For me it’s always trial and error I ended up with having many sub-repositories missing. I’m not going to show whole journey how to solve “the issue”.

I’ve been avoid Docker for a very long time. I started my career as a sysadmin setting up servers running FreeBSD and early versions of Debian on bare-bone servers. As soon as “cloud” came into to the market I switch to AWS, and GCE and have been using them since then. EC2 was my always goto choice to quickly deploy something on the internet. But Docker — from some reason I was avoiding it until this 2 years ago, when I actually started using it. Without to much trust but…

But today history is not about my love & hate relationship with docker, but about trying to deploy Go application and VIPS library. Couple problems appeared during the process and it’s worth mentioning it for future generations because could find much help around my issues.