Introductions and tips for various useful development tools & utilities.
Category: Tools
Episode #676
Distributed Tracing with Honeycomb
Service-oriented architecture may enable separate teams to work fast independently, but they also push problems into the interstices between systems. Distributed bugs need distributed tracing - learn how, with Jessica …
Episode #675
Binstubs and Direnv
Need to customize your shell environment for one project, but not for your whole computer? Let's look at a few different ways to do that, including the excellent direnv tool!
Episode #674
Binstubs and Rails
Binstubs can be a great convenience for project automation, but there are some complications with Rails. Let's clear things up and get your project commands on a solid footing.
Episode #673
Binstubs
Lose the bundle exec muscle memory and get back to the good old days... with the help of binstubs!
Episode #671
Share Credentials with a Devcontainer
Pushing to a remote Git host like Github from inside a devcontainer poses some challenges. In this video you'll learn a valuable technique for sharing credentials into a container without …
Episode #670
Ship first, then code
Part of README-driven-development is prioritizing delivery over getting something working on our own machine. In today's video, Jessica Kerr demonstrates this concept using an NPM example.
Episode #668
Devcontainer Unprivileged User
We've seen that Docker file mounting can be a bit of a leaky abstraction with regards to file ownership. In this video, we'll apply a pragmatic solution to this problem.
Episode #667
Leaky Devcontainer Filesystem Abstractions
Mapping host files into a container is a source of a lot of "WTF" moments. Let's take a closer look at where some of these surprises come from.
Episode #666
Devcontainer Path
bundle exec, npx, virtualenv... part of modern development is taking extra steps to run just the RIGHT version of a tool for the current project. But with containerized development, we …