Almost three and a half years ago, I moved this blog from GitHub pages to my own little machine in the ether. The deployment process was based on Docker and a single Git hook, as I discussed in an earlier post. To simplify my setup as much as possible, I revamp the process to use GitHub Actions with a private repository.

Besides lambdas expressions, Java 8 introduced another language syntax change in the form of a new operator, :: (double colon), to create so-called method references. Even though I talked about and used method references in earlier articles, it’s time to take a closer look.

The first version of my Calibre export tool got released today!

Swift is quite a flexible language, providing you with many tools to modify and augment it as you seem fit. One of these augmentations is the support for custom or overloaded operators.

Setting variables at build-time can provide valuable metadata to our application that wasn’t available when writing the code or even at runtime. We can control feature-flags, or build information, like a version number, without updating the Go-code constantly.