{"id":901,"date":"2022-03-21T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mklasen.com\/?p=901"},"modified":"2022-03-22T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:14:12","slug":"halcyon-part-1-idea-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mklasen.com\/halcyon-part-1-idea-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Halcyon Part 1: Idea & execution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You know which birds I really <\/strong>like? Kingfishers. They’re small, very colorful and fast. You’ll see them in smaller creeks, hiding in the vegetation, but you have to pay attention and probably keep staring at a place for about 10 minutes. And if you’re lucky.. you’ll see one! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was my number 1 reason to go for walks when I was a kid; “We might see a kingfisher!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And once, more recently, when I was swimming in the local river with a friend, at 8AM in the morning, with temperatures under 10 degrees, it flew past us, within a meter of distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s in the name?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Halcyon is the latin name of the Kingfisher. And the inspiration for this development server project: A small, fast and flexible environment for development!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The origins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About 2 years ago, I landed a new client with a very heavy website environment. When running this locally, in MAMP Pro or in docker containers, the website was loading very very slowly. It was as good as impossible to work on this website without getting extremely annoyed. So I decided to look into alternatives. I’ve spent hours and hours on research, and finally bought some components for a mini PC \/ barebone, resulting in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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