Why Does The Business Care? with Michael Heap

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YAML

Michael: So I write a lot of GitHub Actions. I tried it out back in 2018 when it was… before they moved to YAML, and it kind of spiraled from there. I write a lot of actually GitHub tooling. So when the default branch changed from master to main, I wrote a CLI that would do it for the whole organization. It would retarget your pull requests, draft releases. It would update the badges in your README to show your build status, all of that kind of thing.

#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 36 social mentions

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Trello

Michael: I always start with I've got a problem. So a couple of the other CLIs that I've built include a Trello command-line tool for listing go boards, lists, moving things between different states. Actually, one that I use all the time is called Markdown to JIRA. So when I'm thinking about work that we need to do, JIRA is just way too slow for me to go and create a new ticket, add a description. I tend to think very quickly then iterate. So I like to automatically just add in a text file. And I found that I was copying and pasting from this text file to JIRA, this text file to JIRA.

#Project Management #Task Management #Productivity 231 social mentions

3

Todoist

Michael: So planning, time is key. For the longest time, I thought I don't have time for planning; let's just dive in on the next thing but actually sitting back and timeboxing. So I use a tool called Sunsama. It pulls in all my different data sources so Jira, GitHub, I used Todoist as my personal to-do list, stored Gmail emails, and then it lets you drag them on to whatever day you want to so that you can kind of plan out a week at a time if you want and put time estimates against them.

#Todos #Task Management #Project Management 131 social mentions

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Sunsama

Michael: So planning, time is key. For the longest time, I thought I don't have time for planning; let's just dive in on the next thing but actually sitting back and timeboxing. So I use a tool called Sunsama. It pulls in all my different data sources so Jira, GitHub, I used Todoist as my personal to-do list, stored Gmail emails, and then it lets you drag them on to whatever day you want to so that you can kind of plan out a week at a time if you want and put time estimates against them.

#Project Management #Group Chat & Notifications #Task Management 17 social mentions

5

Kubernetes

The best plugin that I've seen recently is alias-tips, which if you run the command and you've got an alias configured for that, it pops up and says, "Hey, don't forget you can type this." So if I'm using Kubernetes and I write Kubectl, apply -f and then the manifest path, it'll say, "Hey, don't forget you can just run K-A-F, and then the path." So that's probably the best plugin that I've seen recently.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 283 social mentions

6

Mashape API Platform

A lot of our work is opportunistic. So it's very urgent and sometimes important. To give you an example, the Log4j vulnerability in December was all over the place. That's not something that we'd scheduled. And we had a lot of conference talks that we also had to focus on. That became a priority. How can Kong help you mitigate that? And just communicating to customers that we weren't vulnerable. That was super high priority, so we just dropped everything.

#Cloud Computing #Backend As A Service #Captcha 28 social mentions

7

iTerm

Michael: Terminal-wise, it's iTerm2. There are lots of new ones that I like the idea of things like Fig. But I've just used iTerm for so long that that's my go-to. Use Zsh as your shell. Don't go for something like Oh My Zsh as a framework. I like to build the config file myself, so I know exactly what each piece is doing. I think my config file is less than 100 lines, and it does 90% of what the frameworks do.

#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 1 social mentions

8

GitHub Codespaces

Michael: I spent a long time getting my vimrc configured properly and all the right plugins and the language server protocols. And I just tried VS Code, and it just worked. I thought, how many hours could I have saved here? And then things like running projects in Remote Containers that's been a game-changer with a dev container that you can also use with Codespaces. Once I switched over, there was no going back.

#Text Editors #Programming #IDE 141 social mentions

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GitHub Actions

I've got a CLI that shows me all of the GitHub Actions being used in an organization because I had to audit an org, and they didn't want to click through every single repo, a CLI that updates a secret value across all your repos. So instead of going through each repo one by one, again, just point to your user. And if that repo has a secret, whenever you specify, it will update the value. It's generally things that I'm too lazy to do over and over again by hand. That's the common theme.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 275 social mentions

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GitHub

Michael: So planning, time is key. For the longest time, I thought I don't have time for planning; let's just dive in on the next thing but actually sitting back and timeboxing. So I use a tool called Sunsama. It pulls in all my different data sources so Jira, GitHub, I used Todoist as my personal to-do list, stored Gmail emails, and then it lets you drag them on to whatever day you want to so that you can kind of plan out a week at a time if you want and put time estimates against them.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2041 social mentions

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Visual Studio Code

Michael: I spent a long time getting my vimrc configured properly and all the right plugins and the language server protocols. And I just tried VS Code, and it just worked. I thought, how many hours could I have saved here? And then things like running projects in Remote Containers that's been a game-changer with a dev container that you can also use with Codespaces. Once I switched over, there was no going back.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1012 social mentions