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Pterinochilus murinus close up

In the evening I managed to make a close up photo of the Pterinochilus murinus I keep. This spider is very skittish so I had to move its container with great care and remove the lid very slowly.

One common name for this tarantula is Orange baboon tarantula, abbreviated as “OBT”. Which is sometimes expanded to Orange Bitey Thingy because of it often ending up in a threat pose when disturbed.

So far I have only seen this behaviour when I rehoused this tarantula last year.

• spider

Working with JSON in Various Shells

I recently went through the exercise of testing jc on several traditional and next-gen shells to document the integrations. jc is a utility that converts the output of many commands and file-types to JSON for easier parsing in scripts. I have typically highlighted the use of JSON with Bash in concert with jq, but this is 2022 and there are so many more shells to choose from!

Source: Working with JSON in Various Shells, an article by Kelly Brazil.

• json
• shell

On using Nix and Docker as deployment automation solutions

In this blog post, I will provide my view on Nix and Docker -- I will elaborate about some of their key concepts, explain in what ways they are different and similar, and I will show some use-cases in which both solutions can be combined to achieve interesting results.

Source: Sander van der Burg's blog: On using Nix and Docker as deployment automation solutions: similarities and differences, an article by Sander van der Burg.

• nix
• docker