From a trip to the Hakatere Conservation Area during the start of winter. Snow the night before made the area even more magical.

New Zealand went into lock down on March 26th. Restrictions started to ease on April 28th, and general domestic travel resumed mid way through May.

I live in an apartment in central Wellington and worked from home throughout. Town was quiet. Street intersections which would normally be clogged with traffic …

A quick guide on running Elastic Search with plugins in Docker. This is ideal for running Elastic Search locally during development. All of the docs I’ve found on how to do this are out of date and no longer work.

The premise is simple. Create a local Docker image based on the official Elastic Search image, installing the Elastic Search plugins you require. Your Dockerfile will look something like the following, where ingest-attachment is whatever plugin you want to install.

FROM …

Here we look at two closely related concepts - the behaviour of Typescript’s type system, and how we can get the type of an object at runtime. We dive into structural typing, nominal typing, Typescript’s value and type spaces, classes, and enums.

Typescript is a structurally typed language. This means that types are identified by their shape rather than name or alias. We can see this …