GitHub Action to create new posts 20 December 2022
Now that I have this site building on Netlify I wanted to start writing more far away from my computer. Of course I immediatly found a bit more friction that I had to solve.
Now that I have this site building on Netlify I wanted to start writing more far away from my computer. Of course I immediatly found a bit more friction that I had to solve.
With the whole move to Mastodon, I’ve been thinking a lot about owning my content again and what will happen with all the interesting things I’ve written on Twitter. That’s a topic that is worth its own post, but it got me thinking about focusing more on this blog again.
Server side development and the managing of the infrastructure has gone a long way in the recent years. From scalable virtual machines easy to manage to containerisation with Docker and even serverless functions with Amazon Lambda. But all of this advancements still require you to change your mindset, from programming your application to configuring the infrastructure.
The other day I had to work with some date formatting on iOS and Android and I end up using the great https://nsdateformatter.com website. I immediately missed the option to change the locale and seeing that it was open source I took my chance to contribute.