Ken Muse
Improving Dev Container Feature Performance
The support for custom features in Dev Containers is a huge improvement to the process of customizing images quickly and easily. The convenience and simplicity can have a cost – performance. Trying to customize a container using a feature recently, I struggled with an incredibly long build time. This is how I improved the process.

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Dynamic Build Matrices in GitHub Actions

Dynamic Build Matrices in GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions allows you to create matrix builds to execute steps multiple times with different parameters. Fun tip – those parameters can be dynamic. You can define them programmatically!

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GitHub, Maven, and Packages
Java makes it surprisingly easy to manage and package complex projects using Apache Maven. One question I’m frequently asked – how does this integrate with GitHub Actions? Turns out that the answer is “surprisingly well!”

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Mythical Heroes

Mythical Heroes

Last week, we examined common myths about time. Software also has hero myths, which harm developers and limit productivity in astounding ways.

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Mythical Time

Mythical Time

Time is a precious resource. Did you know it’s also the source of common myths among managers? And those myths can drain productivity (and happiness) from teams…

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