The base Dockerfile I use for ASP.NET Core web applications. This is suitable for both F# and C# apps. Below I detail some design decisions and Docker best practices.

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:5.0-alpine AS build

WORKDIR /app

# Copy source code and compile
COPY ./ ./
RUN dotnet restore

RUN dotnet publish --configuration Release -o bin

# Build runtime image
FROM …

For people who fell in love with the Alexandria Quartet or the Avignon Quintet and would like to explore more of that Hellenic world.

I found Diego Delgado Duatis’s doctoral thesis The Hellenic World of Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell a superb read. It paints a picture as to what as going on in Durrell’s life during his time in Greece and discusses the poets, authors, and people who influence Durrell and Henry Miller. The thesis is an easy read and includes quotes a lot of …

George Seferis. Athens, 1938

“My old friend, what are you looking for?
After years abroad you’ve come back
with images nourished
under foreign skies
far from your own country.”

“I’m looking for my old garden;
the trees comes to my waist
and the hills resemble terraces
yet as a child
I used to played on the grass
under great shadows
and I would run for hours
breathless over the slopes.”

“My old friend, rest,
you’ll get used to it little by little; …

The Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 lens was manufactured by Asahi (now Pentax) in the 1960s for SLRs cameras. Fast forward sixty years and this lens is now regarded for its character. Shot wide open at f/1.4 it provides a smooth background blur and subtle vignette swirl. Combined with the golden tint these lenses have developed from a thorium coating produces photographs like no other.