Michael F. Collins, III
@mfcollins3.bsky.social
I am a professional software developer and I love to cook. I work for Neudesic and am a Senior Director for Application Innovation in the Desert market (Phoenix and Las Vegas). I am currently based in the Phoenix metro area and live in Surprise, Arizona.
New blog post. It took me a little while to get this one figured out, but I documented how I was able to publish an Elixir/Phoenix web application to Azure using Azure Container Apps. michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/05...
Deploying a Phoenix/Elixir Application to Azure
This article summarizes my experiences and learning how to deploy a web application created using Elixir and Phoenix Framework to Azure Container Apps.
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May 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
New blog post. It took me a little while to get this one figured out, but I documented how I was able to publish an Elixir/Phoenix web application to Azure using Azure Container Apps. michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/05...
I did it! I made a Phoenix/Elixir app run in Azure Container Apps and connecting to an Azure PostgreSQL database. Blog post coming soon before I forget all of the details. Not perfect yet, but it works!
April 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I did it! I made a Phoenix/Elixir app run in Azure Container Apps and connecting to an Azure PostgreSQL database. Blog post coming soon before I forget all of the details. Not perfect yet, but it works!
Looking for someone who has successfully deployed an Elixir/Phoenix application to Azure Container Apps. I keep running into a wall and I'm not sure why.
April 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Looking for someone who has successfully deployed an Elixir/Phoenix application to Azure Container Apps. I keep running into a wall and I'm not sure why.
Just published: learn how to build multi-platform Docker containers and publish them to GitHub Package Registry (or other registries). I was working on another post/project when I ran into this problem, so I stopped to blog about itt. michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/03...
Building Multi-Platform Container Images with GitHub Actions
With Apple Silicon and the emergence of ARM support for Windows, runtime architecture is becoming more important as software that we produce must be able on running on different machine architectures....
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March 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Just published: learn how to build multi-platform Docker containers and publish them to GitHub Package Registry (or other registries). I was working on another post/project when I ran into this problem, so I stopped to blog about itt. michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/03...
After over 30 years working as a professional software developer, nothing brings me to the brink of tears like setting up a new DevOps pipeline.
March 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
After over 30 years working as a professional software developer, nothing brings me to the brink of tears like setting up a new DevOps pipeline.
Just published: my first experience with writing a custom GitHub Action. I ran into an issue with importing my Blue Sky posts into my website. I created a custom action to help me fix this issue so that Blue Sky and Hugo could work together: michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/03...
A GitHub Action for Importing Blue Sky RSS Feeds
I look at creating a custom GitHub Action in this article. The action that I wrote imported a Blue Sky RSS feed and fixed timestamp formatting issues so that my static website generator could read the...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just published: my first experience with writing a custom GitHub Action. I ran into an issue with importing my Blue Sky posts into my website. I created a custom action to help me fix this issue so that Blue Sky and Hugo could work together: michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/03...
I've been listening to the audiobook of The City of Mirrors again on Audible. I desperately need movies done of this book trilogy. It's so unfortunate that Fox messed up The Passage and the series was cancelled after the first season. I just want to see "the seige" happen on the big screen.
March 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I've been listening to the audiobook of The City of Mirrors again on Audible. I desperately need movies done of this book trilogy. It's so unfortunate that Fox messed up The Passage and the series was cancelled after the first season. I just want to see "the seige" happen on the big screen.
Just published: a new article about fair-code and software licensing. This is a look at how I might be able to start building products openly, sharing the source code for others to see, while protecting rights to earn income from my software products: michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/03...
Fair Use Licensing and Open Development
I look at different models for developing and licensing software that I develop. I compare and contrast open-source development to closed-source, commercial development. I then introduce and explore t...
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March 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Just published: a new article about fair-code and software licensing. This is a look at how I might be able to start building products openly, sharing the source code for others to see, while protecting rights to earn income from my software products: michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/03...
2025 has been a year of setting and achieving goals, no matter how difficult they are. So far I've attacked my caffeine addition and have been "sober" for over 60 days now. I'm back in the gym and working to rebuild me. I'm also setting aside an hour each day for "me" time to read and learn.
March 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
2025 has been a year of setting and achieving goals, no matter how difficult they are. So far I've attacked my caffeine addition and have been "sober" for over 60 days now. I'm back in the gym and working to rebuild me. I'm also setting aside an hour each day for "me" time to read and learn.
After a long hiatus, I'm back with a new website and blog trying to share my thoughts and ideas around software development. Here's my first post reintroducing development containers and what you can do with them: michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/03...
Introduction to Development Containers
This post is an introduction to using development containers for microservice and full-stack development. I explain what a development container is, how to build and run development containers using ...
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March 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
After a long hiatus, I'm back with a new website and blog trying to share my thoughts and ideas around software development. Here's my first post reintroducing development containers and what you can do with them: michaelfcollins3.dev/blog/2025/03...
You know when you spend all day building something great and everything is clicking, but your program isn’t working right and you’re getting frustrated and then you take a break to go to dinner and come home and read the documentation and then you change your code to do it the right way?
December 8, 2024 at 6:01 AM
You know when you spend all day building something great and everything is clicking, but your program isn’t working right and you’re getting frustrated and then you take a break to go to dinner and come home and read the documentation and then you change your code to do it the right way?
I built my biggest dev container to date: Prometheus, Grafana, Dapr services, Redis, RabbitMQ, Azurite, SQL Server, Cosmos DB emulator, OpenZipkin, APISIX, Traefik, and ngrok. It’s almost the ultimate dev container for local Azure development!
November 24, 2024 at 5:48 AM
I built my biggest dev container to date: Prometheus, Grafana, Dapr services, Redis, RabbitMQ, Azurite, SQL Server, Cosmos DB emulator, OpenZipkin, APISIX, Traefik, and ngrok. It’s almost the ultimate dev container for local Azure development!