Steve Elliott - tegud.net

Triggering Github Actions manually with the API

You can now trigger Github Workflows manually, hooray! Rather bafflingly the announcement doesn't mention the API, but there is one! Hunting through the also recently announced OpenAPI Github.com API Specifications yields the POST - /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/workflows/{workflow_id}/dispatches endpoint.

security

Using Github Actions Securely

Github have recently released Actions, much like CircleCI and Travis, it makes it really easy to get up and running to Build, Test and Deploy your application. Unlike CircleCI and

Elasticsearch Manchester Meetup talk - 30 Jan 2020 - Entity Centric Indexing with Elasticsearch Transforms

Thanks to everyone who listened to my talk. I'll be turning the content in to a blog post (or two), but in the meantime the content is linked below. If

checkless

Checkless & Logz.io - Free & Easy uptime history

Since the very first version of Checkless, I wanted to keep it simple and cheap (preferably free). So to begin with, the only two notifiers were Slack and Email, this

ghost

Static Ghost - (with Gatsby & Netlify)

I've used ghost as my blogging platform for years now. It's simple, requires minimal setup, and it's dead easy to theme. It's never been the easiest to integrate with anything

checkless

Create Free Site Checks with Checkless

Checkless is a tool for monitoring your websites via simple HTTP checks, but unlike paid for SaaS offerings, you can do it for free (probably). Checkless is built on top

checkless

Checkless: Updating the Free Serverless Site Uptime Monitor

Two years ago I created a personal project called lambda-overwatch, I wanted to check my sites were up, and I didn't want to pay anyone any money to do it.

logs

Dynamic Logging - Log Level Per Request

Whilst checking out the latest Thoughtworks Tech radar I noticed a technique that had been on my mind recently as well: Log Level per request. Logging is a vital tool

operability

Operability Kata - UK General Election 2017 Tweet Analysis with Elastic Stack

Operability Kata? You may already be familiar with Katas, you take an arbitrary problem and practice your skills around it. You often repeat the same one to focus on how

nodejs

Building a (nearly) free site ping on AWS Lambda

Knowing if your website is up or down is important, having recently expanded to running a few websites, instead of just this blog, I wanted a way of having confidence

grunt

Introducing grunt-juve

Recently I've been in need of a method to easily performance test pages and pass/fail CI builds based on the results. A lot of our previous attempts have utilised selenium based tests, but these were heavy weight and unwieldy. At Velocity 2014 phantomas

nodejs

Looking at Gulp, an alternative to Grunt

I’ve been using Grunt for a while now, it’s a great way of managing your JavaScript workflow, for both client side and server side applications. We introduced it into our workflow for managing the minifying of JavaScript and running of tests/linting

nodejs

NodeJS Http Requests stuck at five

Whilst working on our monitoring system we encountered some rather odd behaviour sending data into Elasticsearch over HTTP. We would get 5 responses, and then it would abruptly stop. We were calling request.end(), so as far as we knew we were ending the

javascript

Finite State Machines in JavaScript

Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to go to this years jQuery UK conference, but a friend was tweeting as it happened and mentioned Doug Neiner’s talk on Machina.js (http://events.jquery.org/2013/uk/schedule.html#doug). This got me

xml

XSD Element content and attributes

This is a problem I encountered whilst working on a configuration XSD at work, I wanted to have a node that had content, with an enforced type along with attributes. An example of the XML I wanted to allow is below. <Quotes>