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Chris Blunt
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👨‍💻 Software developer #rubyonrails #docker #aws
🏢 Business owner at @plymouthsoftware.com
📝 Posts #rubyonrails #railsondocker #valuepricing #business
🫖 Tea drinker (☕️ too ...)
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THE PIG-at Combe was a stunning location for the @chamberdevon.bsky.social #DevonNetworking event yesterday. Great to meet new people and businesses from across the region! #devon #business #southwest
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Love that part of the journey! We were on the "other side" of the photo just the day before ... #ObligatoryDawlishShotFromTheBeach 🙂

Hope you had a good trip! 🚄
Photo of a green GWR train along the beach wall tracks at Dawlish. The photo is taken at sunset from the beach looking back towards the trainline.
October 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Morning #coffeeandcode at @elementscafe on Plymouth Science Park to fuel today's #rubyonrails upgrade work.

#plymouth #plymouthsciencepark #coffee #sunrise
Green coffee cup on a wooden cafe table. In the background, out of focus trees are visible with the sun rising behind them.
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Recently learned about the `!override` and `!reset` modifiers in Docker Compose files. Very helpful for cascading configurations where you need to remove previously-set values.

#docker #compose #devops #software #code
Screenshot of code showing two snippets from docker compose files. The second snippet shows how to completely override a ports mapping (rather than merging it) by adding an !override modifier.
June 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Morning coffee and coding session at Elements Café, Plymouth Science Park

#coffeeandcode #plymouthsciencepark #plymouth #coffee #devon #business
A yellow/green mug, filled with coffee, sits on a wooden table. A small amount of foam rises from the drink. Behind the mug, a window with partially drawn blinds suggests daylight. A plant is also present. Sitting to the left of the coffee, part of laptop can be seen.
June 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A morning coffee and code session at PSP Elements Cafe working on a project to help with multiple #Kamal deployments, and a new addition to the #RailsOnDocker portfolio.

👉 www.railsondocker.com

#rails #rubyonrails #docker #kamal #devops #coffeeandcode
A black coffee cup sits on a wooden table, with sunlight pouring in through a glass door behind it. The glass door is open and there is a window next to it. The window offers a view of trees and buildings outside. On the windowsill, a vase filled with flowers. The light from the window casts long shadows on the table.
May 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Wrote a quick overview / case study on the recent #rubyonrails upgrade we carried out for @exeter.ac.uk.

It was a pleasure working with the team and great to see their Rails app up and running on Rails 8 with Docker and Kamal.

www.plymouthsoftware.com/case-studies...
Screenshot of testimonial that reads "Plymouth Software updated a bespoke application belonging to the University of Exeter. They worked with us efficiently with regular communication, delivering an updated application to agreed timescales. Excellent!" by Paul O'Neill, University of Exeter.
May 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Great talks at @chamberdevon.bsky.social #cityconversations this morning.

Unfortunately had to head away a little earlier than planned, but managed to catch some of the exciting things happening in #Plymouth in the weeks and months ahead.

#business #devon
A busy harbor with many docked sailing boats, set against a backdrop of city buildings and trees under a blue sky with white clouds. The photo is taken from a high location providing an overview.
May 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Great to visit the newly-opened #ElementsCafe at #PlymouthSciencePark (and sample the coffee!)

A new remote office for #coffee and #code....? 🤔 ☕ 👨‍💻
May 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Breakfast and coffee at #plymouthsciencepark forum event. Great talks from businesses on the park, and very glad to hear that the cafe is reopening soon! ☕ 🎉

#plymouth #business #devon #networking
April 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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🚀 Two apps moved to #kamal for #RubyOnRails deployments, about to start a third. Stumbled over a few edge cases issues (especially with #Podman), but overall a really good experience.

PS. Get in touch if you need some help moving your #ruby / #rails apps to Kamal. www.plymouthsoftware.com/contact
April 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
cblunt.bsky.social
Working with #kamaldeploy for #rails app deployments this week.

I'm writing some tutorials to cover a few of the edge-cases I've found deploying to #podman instead of #docker.

#rubyonrails #software #devops
A screenshot of YAML code with a generic deployment configuration used by the kamal deployment tool.
February 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Happy Monday 🎉 Starting the week with a new #RubyonRails upgrade project, moving a legacy project from Rails 4 to Rails 8.0 ... and making lots of use of #devcontainers!
A screenshot showing code. The code is a Ruby Gemfile, with the Rails gem slightly highlighted. The Rails gem version is set to ~>4.0.
January 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM