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Merging development and operations for smoother software delivery (mostly).

How I Saved Scraped Data in an SQLite Database on GitHub

Some time back, I stumbled upon this amazing idea of Git scraping made popular by Simon Willison. It involves using GitHub Actions to scrape data and save it directly into a Git repository. Essentially, for each new set of data scraped, a new commit is created in your repository. The

Terminal Emulator

4 Levels of How To Use Makefile

I love Makefile. Today, I use Makefile for most of the projects that I am working on. You may have seen Makefile in many open-source projects on GitHub (e.g. this). Like me, you have probably wondered what Makefiles are and what they do. There is a bazillion of incredible

MacBook with an external hard disk as backup

Backing Up Ghost Blog in 5 Steps

I’ve been writing on my self-hosted Ghost blog for some time now. In case you’re wondering, this site is hosted on a Digital Ocean Droplet. For the most part, I felt like I was doing something inconsequential that only meant much to me. Today, the site has grown

Semantic git commits

How I Set Up CI/CD Pipeline for Cloudflare Worker

Today, most of my projects on GitHub are kept up to date with Renovate. With auto-merging enabled, I want to have enough confidence that the automated dependencies update would not cause any regressions. Testing Cloudflare Worker is a bit out of whack. Don’t get me wrong, I love Cloudflare

Wall-E holding a potted plant

12 Tips to Self-host Renovate Bot

Updating dependencies is boring. Despite its importance, we always find excuses to avoid updating them in the phrase of “if it ain't broke, don't fix it” or “there are more important features to work on”. Over time, the maintainability of the projects deteriorates. The team ends

Hosted on Digital Ocean.