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itsjoshbruce

@itsjoshbruce@phpc.social

Time Lord. Agile Coach, User Experience designer, and software developer. Designing the human experience all around. :)

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itsjoshbruce, to random
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I have an affinity for: Wait until the last responsible moment.

I've been contemplating Continuous Deployment on my personal site for years: https://joshbruce.com

But, before I did, I embraced the @jezhumble line: If it hurts, do it more often, and bring the pain forward.

I could deploy my sites in less than a minute using my phone by the time I hit the ceiling of the manual process I used.

Becca and I are ramping up on TIA: https://the-irreverent-agilists.com



itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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Becca needs to be able to add content to the TIA site without waiting for me to finish her flow.

So, being a pull-based human (preferring to wait until pulled enough to action) and perfectly willing to take on responsibility (friction) for my own stuff, I set to work.

The optimized (happy path) process looked like this:

  1. Clone repo
  2. Edit content
  3. Submit PR (don't @ me)
  4. Let Continuous Integration pass
  5. Merge
  6. Launch a command line app
  7. cd into the remote repo
  8. git pull

Done

itsjoshbruce,
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Becca is content with doing steps 1 through 5. So, no pull to start creating an admin panel - because that's usually where the bulk of the code lives (and most bugs).

So, we're talking about automating steps 6 through 8.

I used the base found here: https://eric.blog/2022/09/04/simple-github-webhook-handler-in-php/

It's conceptual, and a lightweight explanation and just what I needed to start and then run with it.

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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I started with a public repo: https://github.com/8fold/site-joshbruce.com

For this site: https://joshbruce.com

Because I figured it would be the easiest. It was.

Then I decided to see if I could do two different repos and sites hosted on the same server and user directory.

That led me to the calling card site: https://itsjoshbruce.com

And, another public repo: https://github.com/8fold/site-itsjoshbruce.com

itsjoshbruce,
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Last but not least, the TIA site.

It's a private repo, so no link.

It's on the same server but a different user directory.

So, I cloned the php-deployer script and set up an environment file (using JSON, not .ENV).

Then I did what feels like the clunky part; setting up GitHub webhooks, mainly because I'm using tokens specific to the repo doing the push.

And voila: https://the-irreverent-agilists.com

If you'd be interested in a longer (and more in-depth) write-up on how I did this, let me know.

itsjoshbruce,
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It's worth noting I could have done it through GitHub Actions, but I decided against that.

In part because I don't want to be even more tightly coupled to GitHub and its infrastructure.

If I switch to some other remote Git solution, if it has webhooks, I should be able to update the script in short order (there are zero dependencies for the script I wrote, and CI through GitHub Actions says it would work in PHP 7.3, I haven't tried going farther back).

That was my Saturday. How was yours?

itsjoshbruce,
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ps. The time from merge to visible so far has been less than 1 second. (Locally, the script runs in about 300ms and uses one exec call.)

jitterted, to random
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Using in my apps has let me turn the "no logic in HTML templates" all the way up to 11.

I am now very aware (and suspicious) of any logic being evaluated, or even things like string concatenation, being done in HTML templates.

I may have to write a tool to warn me (or fail a test!) if I start using th:if, th:unless, or anything that looks like a method call in my Thymeleaf templates.

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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@jitterted: One of the things I love about the HTML builder I wrote is you literally can’t. It’s so lovely.

itsjoshbruce,
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@jitterted: Sure! Thanks for asking: https://github.com/8fold/php-html-builder

Part of the inspiration was also removing tokenized parsing of HTML. So, instead of “get PHP out HTML” it was “get HTML out of PHP” - it’s basically just string concatenation. lol

Very little code (a few hundred lines), and should be easy to port without becoming a full-blown project. A stable and complete build. I haven’t needed to tinker with it for years.

qcoding, to random
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I'm working on my talk for @swiftcraft and am thinking of this for my closing slide:
Principles ⇒ Practices ⇒ Tools

itsjoshbruce,
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@qcoding @swiftcraft: I tend to agree.

Would add Values before Principles. But that’s me, literally: https://joshbruce.com/essays-and-editorials/the-self/

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Your dude was on another podcast: https://www.earnandinvest.com/episodes-8/where-to-invest-when-markets-are-shaky

Specifically, The Earn and Invest podcast community episode. It was great fun.

The idea of including cash in your "portfolio" was an interesting topic, and it made me think of The Universal Portfolio essay: https://joshbruce.com/essays-and-editorials/finances/the-universal-portfolio/

Winding down on Time: Mastering the Mundane, and Money: Mastering the Mundane is ramping up. I should revisit that essay to cover the logic and rationale leading to it.

#MasteringTheMundane

itsjoshbruce, to webdev
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One of the nice things about being able to write software is when a software company (or series of them) frustrate me enough, I can just write my own.

The drawback is actually doing it.

I’m glad I’m not a data hoarder. Trapped into using software because, “They have all my data!”

I guess we’re back in software mode…unless…

You know of a completely standalone bookkeeping application that doesn’t suck (no account connection needed).

#WebDev
#SoftwareDev

itsjoshbruce,
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@jbrains: Sorry it’s taken a minute…that was a great rabbit hole I just fell down!

I appreciate the ethos behind the solution. Very inspiring.

soundwarrior20, to accessibility

Hi everyone, have a question :-) does anybody have any recommendation for accessible platform style games on macOS or iOS? Thanks everyone :-) #A11Y

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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@soundwarrior20 @joelanman: I’m big on consent and opting in, so I won’t add the tags here. It might be helpful to get more reach to add the: “accessibility” and “gaming” tags to your original post.

polotek, to random
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Oh no. 😂

itsjoshbruce,
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@polotek: In DC’s defense, outside of the movies, the only time I paid attention to Superman the comic was when they did that.

It was the newspaper article on what happened and why. lol

I still didn’t buy (and haven’t bought) a book.

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In my free and open-source software, on the main dashboard a small message occasionally appears noting that we're FOSS software and we depend on donations. We made this because our donations have been steadily decreasing despite our audience and costs increasing.

Since then, we get lots of requests for how to turn the "annoying" message off.

Our response is always the same: we don't provide support in helping you hide the fact that our software is open-source and donation-based, but if you're resourceful enough, you can remove that message via custom CSS, which we do support.

Today I got an unusual reply: "Thank you for not providing assistance"

lmao so not only do you want to rob me of credit and support for the immensely complex software I just give away for free but now you want to be an asshole to me directly about it?

Another one for the pile of (at least for now, banned) users who need to learn how to talk to open-source maintainers.

itsjoshbruce,
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@SilverEagle: Part of me is thankful other people don’t use the things I create.

itsjoshbruce, to webdev
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I guess I’ll finally get around to implementing continuous deployment for my website projects. Mainly because Becca and I plan to start building out and writing content for The Irreverent Agilists: https://the-irreverent-agilists.com

Still avoiding building an admin panel for the win. It still surprises me how little code even a dynamically generated website needs when you remove the admin panel. Web 1.0 is fascinating in the 21st century.

#TheIrreverentAgilists
#Agile
#WebDev

sarah, to random
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I understand accidents happen in war zones.

But when your troops consistently kill people who are hungry or trying to feed those who are hungry, your “it was an accident” pleas start feeling a bit hollow.

itsjoshbruce,
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@afilina @sarah: Etymology nerd has entered the chat…technically Goldfinger, but there are variations: https://journal.monissa.com/once-is-an-accident-origins-of-or-not/

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Latest in the building wealth series: https://joshbruce.com/experiences/finances/paycheck-to-paycheck/20240401/

#MasteringTheMundane

collinsworth, to random
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Missouri is the Florida of the Midwest.

itsjoshbruce,
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@collinsworth: Very proud of that arch. I avoid I-70 if I can and need to drive through St. Louis.

Not sure about the Florida reference, but the first tell is when the pronunciation is that close to “misery” there’s bound to be issues.

itsjoshbruce, (edited ) to random
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Note to future me: You are glad you stopped using Homebrew, and never left it installed when you did.

#Memento

ramsey, to random
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“First of all, the world owes Andres unlimited free beer. He just saved everybody’s arse in his spare time. I am not joking.”

https://doublepulsar.com/inside-the-failed-attempt-to-backdoor-ssh-globally-that-got-caught-by-chance-bbfe628fafdd

itsjoshbruce,
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@afilina @ramsey: Agreed! https://github.com/8fold/agreement-oss-funding

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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@ramsey @afilina: Sorry, that was my bad. Yes just not in that repo when I posted apparently (was in the 8fold OC) - it’s there now.

I’m planning on listing services that can help make it easier as well (PRs welcome and all that)…things like OC and Thanks.Dev: https://thanks.dev/home

[Update] Also planning to make it more generic re organization name. (That’s why it wasn’t there yet.)

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Part 9 of Time: Mastering the Mundane has been made available for purchase on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/master-the-mundane

Part 9 is about Collaboration, which often gets conflated with Delegation (Part 7).

Contribute to this project on the Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastering-the-mundane/projects/book-mastering-the-mundane

#TimeManagement
#SelfManagement
#MasteringTheMundane

itsjoshbruce,
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Part 15 of Time: Mastering the Mundane has been made available for purchase on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/master-the-mundane

Part 15 is covers the last “Wait, but why?” topics and is the final Part released. The first pass of the print manuscript is complete and audiobook recording starts tomorrow.

Then mass-distribution begins!

Contribute to this project on the Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastering-the-mundane/projects/book-mastering-the-mundane

#TimeManagement
#SelfManagement
#MasteringTheMundane

itsjoshbruce,
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All of Time: Mastering the Mundane has been made available for purchase on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/master-the-mundane

Book page has been put up on the Mastering the Mundane website: https://mastering-the-mundane.com/books/time-mastering-the-mundane/

Typesetting for print round one is complete.

Then mass-distribution begins!

Contribute to this project on the Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastering-the-mundane/projects/book-mastering-the-mundane

#TimeManagement
#SelfManagement
#MasteringTheMundane

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