David Mytton

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Status update - 2021-11

Console status update - November 2021: in-depth reviews, podcast season 2 and subscriber growth.

Status update - 2021-10

Console status update - October 2021: Advertising page, badges, podcast season 2.

Replacing a serverless function with Google Cloud Run

A better tested, more secure, better instrumented and sustainably deployed containerized chatbot written in Go and deployed to Google Cloud Run.

First run experiences for developer tools

A bad first run experience is likely to be indicative of the overall quality of the application. What first run experience do developers expect?

Status update - 2021-09

Console status update - September 2021: advertise page, website improvements and subscriber growth.

App packaging - another thing developers must care about

Developers must own their packages - Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Alpine, Arch AUR, Homebrew, Nix, Flatpak, Snap - otherwise someone else will, and that is not a good situation.

On removing APIs - Linux status bar, GNOME system tray and ElementaryOS AppIndicators

Removed GNOME status icons? Where are the ElementaryOS status app indicators? Removing APIs without common alternatives may be a bad idea.

Status update - 2021-08

Console status update - August 2021: some time off.

Automated website performance testing with GitHub Actions, k6 and Cloudflare Workers

Speed is a key feature of all the best developer tools so the Console website needs to be fast. How we use k6 inside GitHub Actions to run performance tests on every commit.