Energy, Sustainability and Deployment Frequency
Deployment / Delivery Frequency
I often end up needing to advocate for more frequent delivery/deployments with clients.
There’s the usual benefits commonly discussed such as improved feedback, reduced risk, well understood processes, maintainable dependencies etc… however what’s often missed entirely is how it relates to the health and sustainability of the team.
Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part Two
Github Not-So-Reusable Actions
Github Actions is a “BYOBE” (Bring Your Own Bloody Everything) offering that provides basic CI with surprisingly convoluted configuration to Github.
The product as a whole is an exercise in frustration, one of the worst parts is the lack of reusability and the complexity required to achieve it. Github’s concept of reusable workflows on Github Actions is clearly a cobbled together afterthought.
YAML Anchors and Aliases
The YAML Spec defined a simple way to reuse values in YAML documents by means of Anchors and Aliases .
Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part One
As of 2022, I’ve been using zsh as my primary shell for 14 years.
Over that time I’ve experimented with and accumulated a lot of configuration, scripts, hacks, plugins and themes. I’ve settled on a configuration that I’m mostly happy with, over this series I’m going to share my current setup.
Encourage Your Peers To Contribute To Open Source
Contributing to Open Source is important to the quality and maintainability of the software and engineering communities we rely on every day - so why is it that so many developers/engineers never participate?
Making Work Visible - Avoid DMs
We create more value by having conversations in public instead of behind closed doors.
The Best Of - 2022 Edition
Near the end of each year I note down a summary of the best apps I’ve enjoyed using throughout the year, here’s 2022.