After I migrated my WordPress blog to a Jekyll site, one very important step remained: publishing that site to https://arwedus.github.io/. Creating a Github Pages Site I followed the GitHub docum...

In the previous post I converted my WordPress blog into Markdown files. This post covers the second half: turning those files into a working Jekyll site that I can publish on GitHub Pages. Startin...

My workflows are increasingly based on docs-as-code and Markdown. Markdown files are easy to access locally, quick to edit and search, and work well with the tools I use to build a personal knowled...

If you have a complex set up, e.g. with VPN and proxy, and docker with an isolated (bridge) network is unable to connect to the internet or is even mis-configuring your DNS name resolution on the h...

This is just a quick repost of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18731603/how-to-tar-certain-file-types-in-all-subdirectories, because I find it so useful: Given a directory with deeply nested s...

In my quest to bazelize “side targets” like documentation, I’ve had to extract files which are the output of a bazel target to a folder outside of the “bazel world”. First, I tried to copy the fil...

Ruff issues the warning message “E402 Module level import not at top of file” for the following python code. First I thought that this is a bug, because the module imports are at the top of the fil...

After refactoring a formerly monolithic python script into several files, I started getting problems related to module imports. I shifted the source code into a package directory, and the test/ dir...

I have worked on some parts of the build dependency handling in a large software project in my company (monorepo project, > 1800 packages, > 10 million LOC, 100s of external dependencies). I ...

Set the date of the last commit to the current date git commit --amend --no-edit --date "$(date)" Set the date of the last commit to an arbitrary date git commit --amend --no-edit --date "Mon 21...