Ian Lewis is a software engineer based in Tokyo who writes about containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, and programming practices. His blog covers real-world engineering topics, career reflections, and practical tooling insights from working with cloud-native systems.
148 articles from this blog
A guide on configuring Mercurial's hg email command to send patches via a Gmail account using exim4 on Debian.
A guide to creating incremental backups using rsync with --link-dest, discussing challenges with cross-platform file systems like VFAT.
A developer explores MochiKit, a JavaScript library that simplifies common tasks like deferred server calls and DOM updates.
Discusses a change in Linux cp command behavior where the -f flag no longer overrides an interactive alias, and offers a workaround.
A guide on capturing command output into a variable in Windows Batch scripts using FOR /F, with a practical example for path conversion.
A developer shares their experience learning and migrating a project to the GTK 2.0 GUI toolkit, including version history and tooling.
A web developer vents about two specific, frustrating bugs in Internet Explorer related to form buttons and Japanese character encoding in mailto links.
A technical guide on how to properly define and return arrays of objects in a WSDL file for SOAP-based web services.
