Blog Archive

On using ai to mockup components or pages

AI is a wonderful tool to augment the human creative aspects. And the fun part is, it operates a lot like humans do. Just like humans, a narrow context and clear boundary sparks creativity.

Lessons learned from running my own home lab

I started out as a PHP developer and eventually learned Java. Then I was introduced to docker and I really didn't like it. I found it had just too many concepts. Luckily, my coworkers were happy to show me what they know. It allowed me to learn it very well, and I even went on to run my own proxmox cluster with VMS for k8s, docker swarm and some other stuff.

On leaving everything better than you found it

Leave everything better than the condition you find it in! Have you ever checked out a git repository and couldn't get started developing right way. Or worse yet, it didn't have a getting started section?

About reviewing merge requests

If you catch yourself saying "Looks good to me!" And then just merge it, you are doing yourself, the author and the organization a disservice. A merge request should not be considered a triviality, it is actually one of the best places to communicate about various aspects of the code or the project.

Hello world: how every project starts

Every great project start with a single step. The blog post is the first iteration. In addition it wil help me to get a working production image in an Astrojs project.