As my blog is mostly a static website running via Hugo, I always thought that bothering with setting some automated workflow to deploy it is a rather pointless task.
As I wanted to have an automated deployment via external Github agent, I had to provide it access to my server. For this purpose I created a separate account, which only has access to add/edit content within my nginx blog directory.
First of all — you can play the game this post is about here. It works from browser, so you don’t have to download anything! And it takes around 5 minutes to finish it, so time investment shouldn’t be an issue as well.
Right now there is a game jam — Ludum Dare 46 — going on the internet. In time when everyone should sit at home because of quarantine (at least that’s how it is like right now in Poland), it sounds like a good idea to find a way to distract yourself from… sitting idle at home. For me one of the ways to do that was to participate in that game jam!
My main way to spend time during travelling to work in January was reading Medium networks The Writing Cooperative and The Startup — first to find some ideas about what kind of content do I want to post on this blog to keep it interesting, and second as a way to find some new ideas for creative use of my programming skills that would bring me joy.
I learned the term ‘struggle porn’ somewhere along the way — if you are spending all the time reading about how to be successful, instead of doing anything by yourself then congratulations, you are just on some struggle porn binge on your own. Of course, by going through those articles you will probably assume that the only thing you lack is just do it approach — all of the rest is already there, right? For sure you have a great vision, huge amount of ideas about ‘what you would like to do when you finally have time for anything’, dozen of ways to perhaps make some extra cash on the side from it… But if only you had that time, right?
Here we go again!
I am starting this year from migrating my server from old OVH VPN to the new one, and in the meantime I have decided to do some clean-up on all the data that I stored on the old one (I probably don’t have to migrate all three years of data, so why not?)
And as a first victim fell my WordPress instance — during the last year I decided to migrate some of my server services to external vendors (like FastMail instead of self‑hosted Postfix using iRedMail), and I decided that the time had come to also say goodbye to WordPress. A bigger platform makes it easier to reach other people and have my posts displayed, etc. So — new year, new service responsible for my blog!
On Friday I had a chance to attend .NET Developers Conference — Wroc#. I was really curious, as this was probably first conference that I participated in that had paid entrance. And first one that I attended as just an visitor, rather than someone organising it — which made me curious. After all, seeing as someone else is doing the similar event (with a rather bigger budget, but that’s just a detail in this case).
As mentioned in previous post, the time has come to install proper development tools on every environment that I used. And so I had my first chance to use OpenSSH Beta on Windows.
While installation is rather simple (and does not require to reboot computer — looks like Microsoft is finally learning something from *nix Systems), for configuration there were some surprises for me. See the post details to read more about it!
After finishing last project the time has come to prepare myself for next projects. And for that, I had to setup development tools and environments. Shouldn’t take too long right? Unless… There are more than two of them.
In this post there are mostly my reflections on working on .NET/JS projects using Windows and Linux operating systems simultaneously and how to select a good IDE and VCS for that kind of set-up. The more the merrier?
Finally some time passed since I had finished my 2nd degree college, and now it’s time to go back to writing some private projects.
As first one I decided to review once again ASP.NET Core, with SignalR Core and Azure hosting platform, to be more ‘up to date’ with latest Microsoft solutions.
Code is available on GitHub, and currently (this commit) is based on the version that I used during deployment of this project — as it was used in a real-world use case during last weekend’s Kawaii Time event in Wrocław. Hopefully I will find some more time to refactor it, as it definitely is not the nicest code that I could write (well, the clock was ticking so I had to skip a few steps).
In October one of my lecturers from college warned us that the current semester will be the worst of all that we have faced during our education. Sylabus for it had three projects related to Artificial Intelligence, and one course with only implementation tasks for some machine learning algorithms. Well, as long as you plan your time, nothing should go wrong… You just have to make sure that all deadlines has been meet… Right? Expectations vs Reality
Before I start writing about Project Rider, I would like to invite everyone to my lecture during 13th Linux Session.
A week passed and I had some time to work on the new JetBrains tool — Project Rider. I would like to share my thoughts about it with you.
Of course, I wasn’t expecting a revolution — I already had experience with previous JetBrains products, mostly with PyCharm and RubyMine (thanks to my student license it is much easier to use those tools for my college assignments). I had received another excellent IDE based on the same engine, and it works really well on my Fedora. It also works fast — which will always be an advantage over Visual Studio.