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Deputies is a background agent platform like Ramp's Inspect or Stripe's minions, but open source and deployable anywhere. I launched it a few weeks ago, and have since added a publ…

Inspired by Ramp's inspect, Stripe's Minions, and open source versions like open-inspect & open-swe, I decided to build my version of a background agent! It is built on https://flu…

More opportunistic. The companies had similar full time roles posted they were trying to hire for and but were willing to adapt hire me part time after discussing what I felt I cou…

I left my full time role right at the beginning of the pandemic due to burnout. I was planning to take time off before applying to full time roles, but then ended up doing part tim…

Hi! Author here! My (somewhat silly) use case for the tiny container was trying to cram 10,000 pods onto a k8s cluster without breaking the bank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y…

Hi, author here! Thanks for the kind words. I didn't know about UPX. I should add an update to the end with this trick!

Hi, author of the article here! I figured there were a bunch of ways to shrink that one, and I had a C based image that was in between my GO and ASM images, but decided to cut them…

Yeah -- Using the second session for grabbing inputs is clever!

K1GSFJF0 is a random password generated here: https://github.com/Firemoon777/sql-battleships/blob/87770216... It then queries every second looking for a session in the postgres_log…

Ha! I attempted this a while back but never came up with a good solution for handling user inputs so it was just the computer playing itself... https://github.com/sidpalas/battlesh…

Thanks for the response -- that is what I assumed by wanted to see if I was missing something.

When looking at my site's analytics, the nubmer of unique visitors tracked in Cloudflare is approximately 3.5 times the number tracked in Google Analytics. Is this mostly due to: -…

Haha - We have it too easy these days and can just spin up a VM with Virtual Box (or similar) to test stuff like this.

I think you could build on this action https://github.com/actions/github-script/ which provides a JS client for the GitHub API. It looks like it supports all of the API routes you …

Mostly because I knew I wanted to play around with trying out different configurations, testing performance, etc... If I didn't have those secondary goals, I would have either: 1) …

Haha, good point... I have another 5 months to fully forget that I ever set this up. The name of the action does get included in the email notification so hopefully I'll be able to…

Oh nice, I saw that one on the front page the other day. Didn't realize it was you -- great post!

...and its hosted on an f1-micro instance! ( https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/03/load-testing-f1-mi... ) Almost all of the load is handled by CloudFlare though.

Love it! I have seen people doing fun things with GitHub Actions for the new GitHub profile readme feature as well. This community chess game is one of my favorites https://github.…