tooling

At KubeCon 2023 Amsterdam I attended a talk about Buildpacks. This is not the first time I heard about Buildpacks, but the talk in the maintainer track was very entertaining and the features like advanced caching and reproducibility sounded very convincing. So in this post I’ll try to replace an existing build pipeline based on pure docker with Buildpacks. I’ll also go a bit in detail on how to use buildpacks and show differences in the resulting images....

This post is about the awesome git worktree, that simplified my personal workflow with git very much. In the past I had at least 2 versions of repository checked out locally or fiddled around with git stash to find a thing I did weeks ago. But let’s talk about how I use git and how git worktree helped me. Use Cases When I’m reviewing a Pull or Merge Request, sometimes I would like to see the code in my own IDE instead of the GitLab or GitHub UI....

LaTeX is a software for document preparation. You write your content in plain text .tex files, much like a very basic programming language, and compile it afterwards in the designated format, e.g. pdf. LaTeX is heavily used in academia as it provides an easy way to express mathematical formulae. Besides that most universities provide a template, so you don’t have to think about margins, citation style (and more) and can simply focus on your content....

I was (and still am for some parts) a happy vscode user. On the other hand I was always looking up to all these crazy fast vim/neovim users and their keyboard only drive workflows. After hopping on and off the vim train a few times a year something new came around sometime in 2021 - LSP support on neovim core. LSP stands for Language Server Protocol and definies how your IDE communicates with a specific language server to get features like ‘go to definition’, ‘show references’ or ‘rename this variable’....

I never expected to use any other OS than my beloved Linux (and especially Arch Linux) for developing and day-to-day computing. Well, I actually use Windows to play some games with friends occasionally, but the time has come to use a Mac at work. It was simply the easiest way to get a much more powerful machine than my ThinkPad X390. So here I’m trying to write up what I like about macOS and what I miss from my highly customized Linux machine....