pdx

The first question after cloning a new repository often is: “How do I build this thing?”, immediately followed by “…and how do I run this thing?”. There may be a README.MD somewhere with some information about some commands that you can run, but this information tends to get outdated very fast. A simple shell script can serve as an entrypoint for all tasks needed to work with the content of a repository. [Read More]

A personal pet peeve of mine when joining a new project or environment is the developer experience (DX). Under this rather wide umbrella term I summarize everything that is needed to get a project running, tested and deployed apart from the actual business code itself. Starting on the local development environment setup, over being able to build and test locally to finally being able to deploy. In the following series of posts I will try to visit some recurring problems and obstacles and give and some heavily opinionated and patterns on how to solve them. [Read More]