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A collection of 10 Posts

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.

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

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.