Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part Two
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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. ...
It's 2022 and we're (still) not deploying enough
We’re (still) not deploying enough It’s 2022 and not deploying frequently enough is still one of the most common causes of software failure. ...
DALL·E 2 - Selected works
Over the past month I’ve been playing with OpenAI’s DALL·E 2, below are some of the interesting images I’ve generated. “DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.” “A renaissance oil painting of two developers arguing over which javascript framework is the worst” “A Ralph Steadman painting of 7 cats sitting on a fence, and one raven” ...
Beginner Harmonica Practice Exercises
Beginner Harmonica Practice Exercises Way back in around 2008 I wrote up a doc with a list of beginner harp exercises and practice riffs, at the time it was uploaded to a few forums and a shared Google doc - both have since disappeared. To this day I still get regular emails asking for a copy of it so I thought I’d copy it to a post here. Note: I haven’t updated these since around 2011. ...