GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner on Linux: Setup Guide
When my GitHub Actions minutes ran out, I made a Linux server a self-hosted runner: dedicated user, SHA256 check, systemd, labels and security trade-offs.
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awesome-trending-repos: Tracking GitHub Trending Daily
How my open source tracker scrapes GitHub Trending every day, compares it with past snapshots and publishes a React dashboard to GitHub Pages with Actions.
DevTo-MCP: Building an MCP Server for the DEV Community API
DevTo-MCP connects the DEV Community (Forem) API to assistants like Claude: Zod input checks, a retrying API client, a draft fallback and an npm naming lesson.
OmniWire-MCP: A Fault-Tolerant News Server for AI Agents
OmniWire-MCP serves RSS, Atom, JSON and HTML sources to AI assistants, with a circuit breaker per source, content sniffing, Zod schemas and a bumpy npm release.
GitLab and Back to GitHub: Migrating My Jekyll Blog
When my GitHub account was suspended I moved my repos and Jekyll blog to GitLab, then came back. How GitLab CI and GitHub Actions differed, and what I kept.
Git Branching Strategies: GitFlow vs Trunk-Based
Git branching strategies compared: GitFlow, trunk-based development, merge queues, squash merges, Conventional Commits, pre-commit hooks and git bisect.
Advanced pytest: Fixtures, Mocking and Hypothesis
Advanced testing with pytest 8: fixture scopes, parametrize, mocking with mocker and respx, async tests, Hypothesis property tests, snapshots and CI settings.
GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipeline for a Python Project
A GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline for Python: tests with uv, Docker images on GHCR, approval-gated deploys, reusable workflows, OIDC and security hardening.
Poetry vs uv: Comparing Python Project Management Tools
Poetry and uv for Python project management: lock files, dependency groups, Docker and CI setups, publishing. An honest comparison of when to use which.
Dockerizing a Python App with uv and Multi-Stage Builds
How I dockerize Python apps: a multi-stage Dockerfile with uv, a non-root user, a healthcheck without curl, Docker Compose for local dev and SHA image tags.
Smart Contract Testing with Hardhat 3 and Ethers v6
Testing Solidity contracts with Hardhat 3, ethers v6 and Mocha: fixtures, time travel, custom errors, fuzzing, coverage, gas stats, mainnet forking and CI.
