Import 2022-11-26 04:40 Brutalist Builds - Bash & GNU Make Pearls For brutalist builds it's best to keep complex imperative logic out of shell scripts and makefiles. In builds, the most important and common things I do in shell scripts and make files repeatedly are: 1. Get the directory of the currently executing makefile or script. Given that we
Import 2022-11-26 04:40 Brutalist Builds - Anti-patterns Uber Builds and In-House Toolkits Here is my irreverent take on about 2 of the biggest barriers to well designed, performant, maintainable builds. 1. Uber Builds 2. In-House Build Utilities Uber Builds are bloated hard to understand monolithic builds that try to build and do way too much in one
Brutalist Builds - Keeping Builds Rugged and Simple Overview Here are some basic guidelines I use for myself for keeping builds simple, rugged, chainable, and maintainable. 1. All the CI server should do is pass build metadata like git branch and revision as environment variables. Secrets are passed as command line parameters to an entry shell script or
Brutalist Builds A Preview This trailer kicks off a set of posts about my approach to implementing software builds; my design approach, how I choose tools, and what tricks I learned along the way to pass on to others. Included with all of this will be some examples of what I believe
Podman Podman on WSL2 I've tried and failed may times getting Podman to run on WSL2. OK, may work if run as root but with Podman, things are not cushy if it's not rootless. Slamming things through running as root does not count as complete success. Here is the path
Windows Docker On Windows 10 - when you don't want to pay for it So, it's just Docker Desktop, not the engine itself, you have to pay for. Grace period ends at the end of January 2022, but without the desktop application, it's not worth figuring out how to use with on plain old Windows-- enter WSL2 and Distrod. WSL2
Node Node on Windows - it doesn't have to suck https://github.com/greenaj/NodeNomad This article is to help Node front-end developers with development on Windows workstations. For those dealing with hosting Node services on Windows, you've learned that with enough force, you can make a pig fly; work on convincing your IT and management to let
