Acorn

Connecting people through story — This weeks mighty oaks are: Darryl & Delilah Flash Fiction: A Tale of two squirrelshinged.press Ginnie Won’t Give Up on You Even if you beg her tohinged.press Supra Terra — Sub Terra A kernel has an epiphanyhinged.press

Flash Fiction — If David Attenborough was around at the end of the nineteenth century, and had one of his cameras filming the life cycle of an oak, it would show me as an acorn being blown away by a gale force 8 from my mother tree on Arthur’s Seat, tossed pitilessly about…

Acorns and Stash are two of the most popular finance apps around, and they both offer a way for customers to save and invest their money quickly and easily. But which app is right for you? …

In this post, I’ll walk you through deploying a web application to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) without having to write any Docker or Kubernetes manifest files. Using open-source command-line tools Draft and Acorn, we’ll containerize and deploy to AKS in just a few steps! Let’s go 🚀 Pre-requisites Before you begin…

Facts, opinions, and personal memories of the British home computer you’d find in most UK schools during the 1980s — This is an updated version of an article I wrote a few years ago for some of my now-defunct blogs. The BBC Micro was designed and produced by Acorn for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Computer Literacy Project. It was released in December 1981. After starting out with the Apple II…

How Acorn simplifies the Kubernetes deployment process — Introduction Deploying applications to a Kubernetes cluster can be very tricky. You have to juggle writing your application code with being generally aware of how Kubernetes works (which isn’t too bad, since the Kubernetes documentation is excellent) and the manifests needed to deploy to it. The general complexity of maintaining and…

A Haiku Poem

When the webhooks app meets Acorn — TL;DR In a previous article we explained how the webhooks application can be deployed in a Kubernetes cluster using Helm / Helmfile. In this article we will explain how this application can be run, packaged and distributed with Acorn, an application deployment framework for Kubernetes. Articles in this series Presentation of the webhooks.app Running the…

Channel 5 picks up “The Madame Blanc Mysteries” for a second series — Channel 5 and AMC Networks’ Acorn TV today announce a second series order for crime drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries, which will include a Christmas special. Clapperboard (Cold Call, The Teacher, The Holiday) and Saffron Cherry Productions (The World According to Grandpa) will co-produce with Acorn Media Enterprises on board…