Notes on Successfully Running Ubuntu in VirtualBox
January 26, 2024
As a Software Developer who likes to use Ubuntu for Development but can sometimes only run it as just another window in Windows, I would like to share some nuanced VirtualBox configurations I built up over the years.
Setting Default Values in GitHub Actions Workflows
October 20, 2023
GitHub Actions is a powerful platform for automating workflows and tasks in your software development process. When creating workflows, you often need to set default values for variables or parameters, especially when certain values are not always going to be provided. In this blog post, let’s explore two techniques to set default values in GitHub Actions workflows, including a handy ! contains() approach and the double pipe || hack. We’ll also discuss the potential limitations of the double pipe hack.
Triggering a GitHub Actions Workflow with a Slack Slash Command
May 10, 2021
In this post I am going to show how you can trigger a GitHub Actions workflow with a Slack Slash command.