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New comment by WillAbides in "Show HN: Release Train – Continuous Releases Made Easy"

WillAbides — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:22:38 +0000

I also blogged about my motivations for writing Release Train here: https://willabides.com/posts/release-train-continuous-releas...

New comment by WillAbides in "Show HN: Release Train – Continuous Releases Made Easy"

WillAbides — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:13:00 +0000

Release Train will automatically create a new GitHub release every time you merge a pull request into main or whatever release branches you set up. It's inspired by semantic-release[1] but takes a different approach. Instead of using commit messages it uses PR labels to determine the type of release. This makes it easier to use. It's also a single binary so it doesn't require npm or any other package manager.

It comes in the forms of both cli and GitHub Action.

The downside of this approach is that it ties you to GitHub. It could be extended or forked to support any platform that has something like a pull request with labels. I'm comfortable adding that to the technical debt I will incur migrating away from GitHub.

I would love to get notes from the hn community on this.

[1] https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release

Show HN: Release Train – Continuous Releases Made Easy

WillAbides — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:13:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/WillAbides/release-train

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36959006

Points: 3

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New comment by WillAbides in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

WillAbides — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:18:38 +0000

You’ve got me beat. https://willabides.com. I haven’t posted anything yet.

New comment by WillAbides in "New GitHub Issues Beta"

WillAbides — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:18:51 +0000

New comment by WillAbides in "Branchless Coding in Go"

WillAbides — Tue, 11 May 2021 18:03:29 +0000

For anybody who stumbles across this and is interested, this conversation is continued on reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/mlhvx0/i_wrote_yet_...

New comment by WillAbides in "Branchless Coding in Go"

WillAbides — Wed, 05 May 2021 13:37:39 +0000

I apparently had a fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of branchless. That's embarrassing.

As for simdjson-go, I did benchmark it. rjson outperformed simdjson-go in most benchmarks, but simdjson-go was about 3% faster reading citm_catalog.json.

https://github.com/WillAbides/rjson#simdjson

Edit:

I see on your bio that you are one of the simdjson authors. I hope you will indulge a question about it. I am generally more interested parsing a large volume of json documents efficiently than I am in doing it quickly. Since simdjson uses parallel instructions, would that mean that the speedup comes at the expense of being able to process more documents in parallel on the same hardware?

New comment by WillAbides in "Branchless Coding in Go"

WillAbides — Tue, 04 May 2021 23:07:51 +0000

I wrote a mostly branchless json parser in go using ragel to generate most of the code.

https://github.com/WillAbides/rjson

The generated code isn't much to look at, but it is certainly fast.

https://github.com/WillAbides/rjson/blob/main/object_handler...

New comment by WillAbides in "Show HN: I'm Creating a GitHub Repo Quality Bot"

WillAbides — Sat, 12 May 2018 14:58:37 +0000

I’m not involved in this project, but I would guess that it’s because it validates both issues and PRs, but only PRs have statuses on GitHub, More precisely, only commits have statuses, and issues aren’t associated with commits.

New comment by WillAbides in "Show HN: I'm Creating a GitHub Repo Quality Bot"

WillAbides — Sat, 12 May 2018 14:53:39 +0000

“avatar_url” is the only part of that endpoint in preview, so that warning only applies to that field. I can see how the notification isn’t clear on that point, and I will bring that up.

New comment by WillAbides in "Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers"

WillAbides — Mon, 07 May 2018 17:24:35 +0000

I don't think they store all their data on twitter. If they did, they probably wouldn't have this file in their repo: https://github.com/edent/openbenches/blob/master/database/da...

New comment by WillAbides in "What of the lowly page number"

WillAbides — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 01:58:49 +0000

I didn’t spend hundreds of dollars on a mechanical keyboard with custom caps and switches to “click”.

New comment by WillAbides in "Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” and “Up”"

WillAbides — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 20:19:17 +0000

This brings back a memory of a conversation with my grandfather. We were in Midland, and I said something about heading over to Odessa. He made a disparaging remark about my intelligence and said we would have to head out to Odessa from there.

That never made any sense to me until now.

New comment by WillAbides in "GitHub Enterprise 2.9 is here"

WillAbides — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:39:11 +0000

Git Flow and GitHub Flow are actually distinct from each other. Here's a blog post about it from Scott Chacon.

http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html

New comment by WillAbides in "Search commit messages"

WillAbides — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:10:38 +0000

"really really fixed this time for real"

New comment by WillAbides in "Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years"

WillAbides — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:52:08 +0000

I didn't notice that was Mitchell. Makes sense. The one time I met him in person we talked about Tesla.

Now I need to track down Elon Musk to discuss Consul.

New comment by WillAbides in "Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement"

WillAbides — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:51:31 +0000

Taste is dependent on the audience. An audience of kernel maintainers would probably share Linus' taste here, while an audience of enterprise developers would find the original code more palatable.

New comment by WillAbides in "Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec"

WillAbides — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 23:34:35 +0000

ipnon was probably talking about the cal command in the body of the message.

New comment by WillAbides in "A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors"

WillAbides — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:19:35 +0000

> What do feelings have to do with science?

When the science in question is psychology, feelings have everything to do with it.

New comment by WillAbides in "Git Undo"

WillAbides — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:52:21 +0000

What do you think `git branch` should do?