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After a night out at the pub with friends, we ended up playing a game of darts called Killer. It's a great game, chaotic, social, and surprisingly strategic. But keeping score on a piece of paper or on someone's phone notes app is a mess. Someone always loses track, someone else disputes a point, and half the group…

I’ve been looking for a simple yet complete way to create and share Kanban boards. I’m used to tools like Jira, GitLab, and OpenProject. These are all great, but they tend to be either too expensive, incomplete, or too resource hungry. After some research, I came across Kanboard. At first, it looked a bit "plain," but…

For a long time, I ran everything on a single bare metal server at OVH. It hosted my self hosted GitLab, GitLab runners, Docker images, and all my production workloads. It was powerful, reliable, and predictable, but, over time, it became expensive and rigid. I wanted something more flexible, easier to scale, and…

In this post I go through a small GitHub Action I wrote, Is First Commit. It checks whether the current commit is the very first one of a repository. The project An action starts with a package.json, the same as any Node project. It holds the metadata, the dependencies and the scripts. For Is First Commit it looks…

When creating a Docker Image you might want to make it easily accessible to you and the world. Most of us have been used to GitHub to share code and, nowadays, DockerHub to make our Docker images publicly available. We used to be able to connect our GitHub and DockerHub accounts and have DockerHub listen to changed in…