When a project's config inherits yours
Two configs for one tool, the user's and the project's, and no rule anywhere about which one wins. Twenty minutes to make one a layer of the other and keep a straight answer about where every value came from.
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Orienteering
Step-by-step how-tos. Pick up the map and follow along.
Layering config without losing where a value came from
Four places a config value can come from, and the only question that matters at the wrong end of an incident: which one won, and why. Twenty minutes, one module, no services.
Render your first reel
Fifteen minutes, no API keys, nothing to pay for, and a real mp4 at the end of it. The cheapest way to find out whether keryx does what you think.
Cull a shoot, end to end
Twenty minutes from a folder of frames to an album-ready export, with nothing written over an original. Also: the install method that will cost you an evening if you pick the obvious one.
Your first run with skillup
A change that ships without a version bump reaches nobody, and nothing tells you. Ten minutes in a throwaway directory to see it happen, and then catch it.
The backup you never restored is just hope
A backup is only real once you have tested the restore. A self-hosting backup guide that deliberately refuses to bless a single tool.
Wire up an AWS billing alarm before the surprise
Setting up an AWS billing alarm before you need one, with a KMS gotcha in the middle that stops the alert ever reaching you.
Which CLI library should you start with?
Choosing a CLI library in Go and Rust. Go is a ladder you climb from the standard library; Rust asks a different question much earlier.
Sign your own binaries with go-tool-base, part 7: rotation and break-glass
Rotate a release signing key and recover from a bad one without locking users out. Why asymmetric KMS keys have no auto-rotate button.
Sign your own binaries with go-tool-base, part 6: sign every release with GoReleaser
Make a tagged release sign itself: record the KMS key and regenerate GoReleaser config with a signs block that calls gtb sign directly.
