Recently, my main workstation died, so I’ve been using an old laptop for my dev work. Even after opening up the case and boosting the RAM from a paltry 16GB to barely-sufficient 24GB, I noticed I was consistently over 90% utilization with Docker and basically anything else (Chrome, Visual Studio, Postman) running. This was immediately visible in the Windows Task Manager. WSL runs under “vmmem.exe” or “VmmemWSL”. If you run a “stock” WSL install and have Docker running, you can probably just sort by “Memory” descending and see it pegged to the top :)

I started learning about Github Pages and Jekyll a couple weeks ago (tl;dr, my wife’s old blogs that she never writes in anymore kept getting hacked, and I needed to port them from Wordpress to ANYTHING ELSE). Once I settled on Github Pages + Jekyll as a solution, I had to struggle a bit through the following:

Dave here! Tech guy, coffee drinker, guitar player, family man, follower of the Way. I’ll be writing some tidbits here about life, technology, fatherhood and whatever else strikes my fancy.