Git is a distributed version control system, not to be confused with github, bitbucket or gitlab, which are cloud based solutions for managing your git repositories.
When I first started professionally programming in a team, one of the first articles I had to read and memorize was How to Write a Git Commit Message by Chris Beams. And since then I used his method of writing imperative style, short and clear commit messages. His recommendation is Read more…
I created a custom Github action that deploys a static website to s3, and I want to point out a few details of my process of building a reusable action. For detailed reference refer to https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/about-custom-actions. There are 3 types of custom actions – docker, javascript and composite. For deploying Read more…
In development I like to use containerized databases. Recently I’ve been working on a micro service project that uses Postgres as a datasource. Each service has it’s own independent datasource. Running independent postgresql docker per service is resource consuming, so hack is to use a single postgres docker with multiple Read more…
I’m awkward to say I spent a few hours to get gh pages going locally on my computer. Github pages are ran with Jekyll. Jekyll is a Ruby based static site runner. I never worked with Ruby, so… There is an official instruction here and you might not need my Read more…
Writing a blog could be much easier with a blogging platform like WordPress, but then there wouldn’t be a reason to create this post. I prefer writing my blog posts like I write documentation in markdown, versioned and self hosted. There’s no need to have a big platform running just Read more…