GitLab is a popular git repo platform with integrated CI and whatnot. It can be self-hosted.

Annoying limitations:

• Limited to 50 tags per runner (issue)
• Constant breakage, no stable interfaces, e.g. CI_BUILD_TOKEN removal, see docs
• Random deprecation of stuff, e.g. CMD shell to be replaced by PowerShell
• Requires constant patching, I'd NOT recommended to host a publically available GitLab instance.
• Support, is there support? So far all customer issues that would be relevant to me are simply not addressed

How do people cope with these things?

posted at: 14:15 | path: /rant | permanent link

Configuring editors to not append a newline at the end (before the end-of-file, EOF):

• nano: start with nano -L or put set nonewlines in ~/.nanorc
• gedit: run gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor ensure-trailing-newline false

(see here also)

posted at: 23:13 | path: /programming | permanent link

This will probably the only post I do for Windows ever, happened to do support for a PC over Christman holiday season.

Thing is, security update KB5034441 fails to install with code 0x80070643. Of course, there can be multiple reason, but this Golen article (German) was spot on: the Windows recovery partition needs to be increased.

It refers to a Microsoft support page which has instructions for the command-line how to shrink the system partition and grow the recovery partition. Very nice incarnations :-)

A appreciate the user friendlyness of tools I've never heard of: reagentc, diskpart. After that (no reboot necessary), the update completes installation within seconds, very nice!

posted at: 13:07 | path: /configuration | permanent link

Making good use of a 3D printer.

posted at: 19:45 | path: /fun | permanent link