Week commencing 09/12/2024

Week of

Sites & Articles that interested me

  • Conventional Commits interested me this week. I've been following a feat/fix/chore prefix for a little while now, its interesting to see a specification that may lead to some standardisation.
  • Commitizen Is a CLI based tool that assists you with versioning and commit writing.
  • Kirby CMS Looks extremely interesting. The entire CMS is file based so you're not locked into a Vendors modelling of your data but the price is just too high for something I'm doing as a hobby.
  • I read Murat Buffalos post titled Advice to the young again.
  • Microsoft released a Local Emulator for Azure Service Bus which is awesome.
  • Explored Microplane which seems like a cool project to automate mass updating Git repos. I started building something similar in .NET a while back so I'm interested to see how this works out.
  • Finally tried out Cursor after a few recommendations. So far it is better/more convenient than standard co-pilot but I'm unsure if it warrants $20/mo better. I plan on trying it out some more however.

What I did this week

  • Actually blogged for the first time 🎉
  • I bought a server from RackNerd they had a good black Friday deal where I managed to snap up a 2.5GB, 2 Core KVM VPS for year for the price of £15 🫨. I've not decided what I'm going to host there at the moment...
  • Read into what options Azure has in terms of hosting SQL databases
  • Created a Christmas trivia page for a bit of fun at the end of standups.
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