Category: Software
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Badges… We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!
Well… Maybe we do. This is a quick plug (no reimbursement of any kind) for the folks over at Shields.io, who make creating custom badges for readme files and websites an easy and fun task. A Quick Demo The badges above are generated from Shields.io. The first link looks like this: My Github username (spyder007)…
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Building Software Longevity
The “Ship of Theseus” thought experiment is an interesting way to start fights with historians, but in software, replacing old parts with new parts is required for building software longevity. Designing software in ways that every piece can be replaced is vital to building software for the future. The Question The Wikipedia article presents the…
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D-N-S Ja!
Yes, I still write software, even if it is just to support my home lab habit.
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Installing Minio on a Synology Diskstation with Nginx SSL
In an effort to get rid of a virtual machine on my hypervisor, I wanted to move my Minio instance to my Synology. Keeping the storage interface close to the storage container helps with latency and is, well, one less thing I have to worry about in my home lab. There are a few guides…
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Using SonarCloud for Open Source
My last few posts have centered around adding some code linting and analysis to C# projects. Most of this has been to identify some standards and best practices for my current position. During this research, I came across SonarCloud, which is Sonarqube’s hosted instance. SonarCloud is free for open source projects, and given the breadth…
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Publishing Code Coverage in both Azure DevOps and SonarQube
I spent more time than I care to admit trying to get the proper configuration for reporting code coverage to both the Azure DevOps pipeline and SonarQube. The solution was, well, fairly simple, but it is worth me writing down. Testing, Testing… After fumbling around with some of the linting and publishing to SonarQube’s Community…
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Tech Tips – Adding Linting to C# Projects
Among the Javascript/Typescript community, ESlint and Prettier are very popular ways to enforce some standards and formatting within your code. In trying to find similar functionality for C#, I did not find anything as ubiquitous as ESLint/Prettier, but there are some front runners. Roslyn Analyzers and Dotnet Format John Reilly has a great post on…
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Deprecating Microsoft Teams Notifications
My first “owned” open source project was a TeamCity plugin to send notifications to Microsoft Teams based on build notifications in Teamcity. It was based on a similar TeamCity plugin for Slack. Why? Well, out of necessity. Professionally, we were migrating to using MS Teams, and we wanted functionality to post messages when builds failed/succeeded.…
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Pulling metrics from Home Assistant into Prometheus
I have setup an instance of Home Assistant as the easiest front end for interacting with my home automation setup. While I am using the Universal Devices ISY994 as the primary communication hub for my Insteon devices, Home Assistant provides a much nicer interface for my family, including a great mobile app for them to…
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Bruce Lee to the Rescue! Health Checks for .NET Worker Services
As we start to develop more containers that are being run in Kubernetes, we encounter non-http workloads. I came across a workload that represents a non-http processor for queued events. In .NET, I used the IHostedService offerings to run a simple service in a container to do this work. However, when it came time to…