mrdonbrown

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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
Video creation and editing [1]. I used to speak at tech conferences but after taking a long break, I wanted to get back into some form of instructional content. My kids are obsessed with YouTube, and I started a new startup, so I figured I&
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
I'm surprised tawk.to [1] hasn't got a mention yet. It was easy to set up and while quite limited, is free so perfect for our small startup. [1] https://www.tawk.to/
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Generate high-quality code walkthrough music videos with Python(github.com)
3 points by mrdonbrown 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
I think it can: https://docs.manim.community/en/latest/examples/3d.html
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
Sadly, it took me a few hours, but only because I went down a rabbit hole of trying to render a colorized code snippet without knowing the Code class existed. I got to the point of a custom Tex template that used listings, only to find out
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
Great timing! I've been looking for something like this to generate code walkthroughs (among other things). After a bit of playing around, here is a simple video (with linked source) of using Manim (the community edition) to generate a
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
> Sad that it doesn't seem to offer any deployment visibility options. I would love to connect it to our CI/CD system to see what changes are currently being rolled out. Deployment visibility is what my startup - https:/&
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
It depends on the workload and app for sure, but in my experience, most of my services make a bunch of outgoing calls, usually HTTP, to different services, often in a single operation. Being able to do these in parallel, on the side, or via
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
This bugged me about Atlassian when I worked there as well. On one hand, one of the key marketing messages was about working from home, and additionally, they had an evangelist talking about the "future of work" being remote. On t
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Three Mistakes of Continuous Deployment(youtube.com)
6 points by mrdonbrown 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
Well, for example, say you were adding a new preference page. First, I'd do a deploy of the new database table(s), even though they aren't used. Then, I'd add a link to the page in the UI and put that behind a flag, maybe w
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
Assuming your project supported continuous development, I'd probably say you should break that project up into multiple deployments, ideally hidden behind a flag and each easily revertable. This would reduce the risk of each step and
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by mrdonbrown 6y ago
Exactly. Agreed to all the comments that trying to find a simple metric for developer productivity is futile, but there is value in encouraging people to ship more often, and in doing so, ship smaller things that generally have less risk.
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I deploy, therefore I am(sleuth.io)
75 points by mrdonbrown 6y ago|54 comments
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by mrdonbrown 7y ago
Sleuth is a SaaS deployment tracker that pulls deployments from source repositories, feature flags, and other sources, in addition to pushes via curl. You can see Sleuth used to, well, track Sleuth at https://app.sleuth.io/
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Lonely working from home? Try Twitch(blog.sleuth.io)
2 points by mrdonbrown 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrdonbrown 7y ago
Actually, I just started doing this yesterday. I had streamed a handful of times on Twitch (channel the same name as my username here) for side projects before, but I just joined a startup as a co-founder and decided to try streaming durin
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The Dharma of Vi(blog.samwhited.com)
8 points by mrdonbrown 11y ago|0 comments