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A collection of 14 Posts

9 essential devtools for new projects

When starting a new coding project there are lots of devtools to consider using. These are the 9 most important devtools for new projects.

Is no/low-code for developers?

But if it's called no (or low) code, why is it a developer tool?

CLI-first devtools

Mobile-first. API-first. Native vs web. These are well understood. But what about CLI-first? Is this a new approach to building devtools? Can you build a good CLI-only product?

The Console tech stack 2022

The tools and products we're using to run Console in 2022.

Discover the best tools for developers

Console Newsletter - A free weekly email digest of the best tools and beta releases for developers. Every Thursday.
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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.

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.

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.

Google owns email, just like search

Running a fast growing newsletter for the last 6 months has revealed that Googlebot is not just about the web.

Automatically building the web version of our email newsletter

How we built the dynamically generated, but still static HTML, "latest email" page that is automatically built from our Google Sheets content management backend.