GitHub pages is a free static hosting provider that unsurprisingly works well with a git workflow. It enables git push to deploy type workflows. This site itself is a static site built with hugo and deployed to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions.
Dark Sky is discontinuing their API and Android app after joining Apple. It was my favorite weather app, both from a data and UX perspective. They apparently aggregate from many different sources to have the best predictions and world wide coverage. I’m not sure I actually need all of that and am curious to make my own solution.
I’ve made use of Google Saved Places for a while now. I have the standard ⭐ “Starred”, 🚩 “Want to go”, and ❤️ “Favorites” lists as well as some specific to cities. Saved places is really convenient when you’re deciding where to go. My want to go list helps me remember the places I want to try and the favorites list often helps me find a place if I can’t quite remember the name of it.
I use Feedly to manage my content subscriptions, which include a number of bigger sites and personal blogs. Feedly is nice, but I would like to be able to save and use the data from there in other ways. So, I’ve been looking for an open source setup that I can tweak.
Kubernetes is a great way to deploy your services in a scalable and reliable way. However, it’s a pretty complex system to manage yourself. Thankfully, cloud providers are offering managed versions where you only pay for the worker nodes.
Josh Kasuboski