Shell Scripting Developer in Marseillan, France

Firebase is a suite of over 20 components that greatly simplify the creation of mobile and web applications. It is fully integrated with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I developed a workshop highlighting the use of Firebase for front end developers. As part of the process, I was in direct contact with the Firebase team at Google. The focus is to allow developers to develop end to end applications without the need for a backend server. All backend components are deployed directly into the Google Cloud using Cloud Functions and Cloud Run.

Moving into a new computer is a time consuming and often frustrating process. The software needs to be installed, and data needs to be moved. Having purchased a new Mac Mini, I didn't want to go through this process, so I made some decisions.
First of all, data files. I had purchased a NAS, which has RAID backup, and most of the files are also in the cloud in Github. Simply NFS mounting the NBAS drives means that multiple machines can access them, and there is no need to copy files other than to the NAS.

Installing and updating software is always tricky. This is particularly true if there are dependencies. A solution to this is to run the software in Docker images. I decided to use this approach. The complex Docker run command can be wrapped in an alias, a function, or a script.

Another issue is documentation. Documents are often required in multiple formats, including HTML, PDF, and proprietary formats. The other issue is that documents are ideally in a text format for versioning. There is an ideal solution. Markdown is a commonly used document format. The Pandoc software can easily convert markdown to other formats, eliminating the need to have multiple copies of the same document.

I wanted to be able to predict the times of astronomical events so I have an ongoing Java project to build a suite of programs to predict events and model the solar system. There is an almanac section on my website which shows some of the calculations and results.

Most of the current literature is based on unexplained approximations, but I found the NASA data which allow the accurate calculation of the positions of the sun, moon, and planets between the years 1550 and 2550.