Type II Fun - The wafflings of Simon Mayes

Feb 13, 2021

Rootless DIND for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners

TL;DR checkout github-actions-runner running with rootless DIND on ubunu This post follows my earlier post: Self-hosted GitHub Actions on ECS. On reflection, my earlier implementation of “docker i̶n̶ outside docker” had many flaws. It shared state between runners and would have resulted in container name, network and other collisions. …

Github Actions

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Github Actions

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Jan 7, 2021

Self-hosted GitHub Actions on ECS

GitHub Actions are awesome, right? They’re not perfect — but what tool is? Some 3rd party CICD tools are probably better but they would have to be significantly better to get over the native/3rd party barrier. After thoroughly reviewing features and competitors I don’t think any 3rd party is significantly…

Github Actions

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Github Actions

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Jul 6, 2019

Migrating to Sauce Labs

Sauce Labs is an automated web and mobile testing cloud. They take on the difficulty of managing browsers, VMs, devices and emulators and allow you to concentrate on code. The principle reason we moved to Sauce Labs was that we could not easily run Internet Explorer in our test environment…

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Jun 5, 2019

Running mocha tests in parallel

Mocha by design runs tests in series. Often this is not efficient and you might want to run some or all of the tests in parallel. Mocha uses a wrapper executable under the hood, which runs the “real” _mocha executable. The _mocha executable is run via require('child_process').spawn. See bin/mocha. This…

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Jun 23, 2018

Recommending VBA in 2018

It may not be VBA anyone but I still stand by my original advice: Excel formulas, the world’s most popular programming language, is now Turing-complete. Go check it out! — Satya Nadella — Microsoft CEO I just got asked a classic question from a friend: “I’m thinking of learning a…

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Jul 7, 2017

Running a Windows app headless in a debian/node container

I had a problem. I have been building a data analysis/visualisation app in Node/React for a client and have been sourcing my data from the undocumented/deprecated Yahoo Finance API. It turns out that (surprisingly) the undocumented/deprecated Yahoo Finance API doesn’t provide complete or consistent data for UK stocks (we’re interested…

Nodejs

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Nodejs

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Jul 6, 2017

Portable Tough Computing

tl;dr I spent a long time establishing that OS and hardware doesn’t matter. It’s all about whether I can run my code and being productive. Luckily for me, my preferred tech stack runs pretty much consistently across most devices. I believe that Samsung Dex is the best option in the…

Nodejs

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Nodejs

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Apr 28, 2016

Quick Rave About CircleCI

technology Quick Rave About CircleCI I’ve just deployed CircleCI for a VetCraft , a client of mine. Continuous Integration and Delivery is always impresses me. It follows our GitHub repository and when we commit to the development branch, it checks out the code, downloads our dependencies ( Composer , NPM…

Circleci

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Circleci

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