Brett Weir • 11 min read
Jul 24, 2023 — I am healthier now than I have ever been, even while running a business, but it wasn't always that way. This week, we'll take a trip down memory lane and talk about the product that wasn't: LameStation.
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Jul 17, 2023 — Join me as I talk about infrastructure, work-life balance, and entrepreneurship in this interview.
Read more»cici-tools, a multi-tool for building GitLab CI/CD pipelinesBrett Weir • 9 min read
Jul 3, 2023 — Writing the same GitLab CI/CD pipeline over and over isn't much fun, but making reusable pipelines at scale is hard. Here's a set of tools I've been developing to make things easier.
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Jun 26, 2023 — Preparing SD card images is toilsome and fraught with difficulty, but there's a better way! In this article, I'll show you a method for configuring a Raspberry Pi that doesn't require hardware at all. What!
Read more»Brett Weir • 11 min read • Part of the Doing stuff with Cloudflare series
Jun 19, 2023 — Static site hosting services are a dime a dozen, but situations sometimes come up where you need something more flexible. In this article, we'll learn how to host a static site using only Cloudflare R2 and MinIO Client.
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Jun 12, 2023 — In this article, we'll deploy matching staging and production Kubernetes environments in DigitalOcean using a single GitLab-managed Terraform project, so that cluster administration is safe, reliable and not really something to worry about.
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Jun 5, 2023 — There is a chicken-and-egg dilemma endemic to infrastructure development, where infrastructure that exists today could not be created from scratch if needed. I discuss this Bootstrapping Problem, and how to avoid it.
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May 29, 2023 — Application configuration isn't the most exciting part of your stack, but it's surprisingly hard to get right. I present a recipe for loading config files that is clean, easy to implement, and grows with your application.
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May 22, 2023 — If you've ever wondered if starting a business was right for you, here are some reasons, taken from my own experiences, that you may not have thought of.
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May 15, 2023 — Terraform is all the rage nowadays, but what is it exactly? And what problems does it solve? Let's dive in to the exciting world of infrastructure automation.
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