I mentioned offhandedly at the end of my post on how Docker and Flask are helping me sleep at night a potential use case for an iOS share extension. I finally started working on that idea.
The Background
Right out of the gate I'll admit that my implementation is a bit naive, but it is if nothing else an example of what can be accomplished with a little bit of work. In general my microcontroller development workflow has been tied to a particular system largely using the vendor supplied tools like MPLAB X or Atmel Studio. This is usually OK as I need to have physical access to either the prototype or production hardware for testing and verification. From a high level it generally looks like this:
I don't want to start out by bitching about yet another crappy Internet thing, but I think I have to. YouTube Red is this play from YouTube to try to get into the paid streaming business and one of the 'features' they tout is the ability to play videos in the background on mobile devices... something that totally worked before JUST FINE before.
I don't remember where I ran across oldweb.today but I thought it was a pretty rad idea. I was able to find an old version of my website there and enjoy it in a browser similar to what I would have been running back then...
Edited: October 18, 2017 @14:03
I have been meaning to play around with containers for a while but for the life of me have not found a real reason to. I feel like without a real use case, any attempt I'd make to learn anything useful would be a huge waste of time. There are a bunch of neat toys out there, from running random ASCII art commands to a crazy script that 'emulates' some of the insane Hollywood style computer screens, as well as base images for all manner of application stacks and frameworks, but all of those are easily installable using your favorite package manager.