I wrote a very simple right-to-the-point Docker introduction post if you’re new to Docker.

If you want to see your code changes applied right away to a running Docker container, you need to make sure to run the container using the share volumes tag: -v (or --volume).

From Python’s official documentation: “A profile is a set of statistics that describes how often and for how long various parts of the program executed.”

Problem: create a map of the letters and indices in a string.

My first approach was to loop over the string using range(len(s)), and checking if the letter exists in the map before adding it:

This past week marked my first anniversary as a full-time software developer. I thought it would be important to stop and reflect on these last 12 months so this is my “Year 1 retro”. You can read more about my background in the ‘About’ page but here’s the TL;DR: I am a self-taught software developer.

Docker has been around for a few years but it sounded too complicated and I never knew exactly what problem it was solving. Only recently I learned about it and started using Docker both at work and on my personal projects.