Week in Review: Week 19, 2021

published 05/16/21

Mother's Day was last weekend and we were so busy I didn't have time to write anything up so playing a bit of catch up here - I shipped a bunch of podcast episodes but didn't make much progress on my DigitalOcean setup so that's still WIP.

I did find some time at work to improve the braze_ruby gem that I've been tinkering with. What I wanted to get going was automated publishing. There are lots of ways to do this, my current preferences is:

• run a script locally when you want to publish a new version
• that script bumps the version and tags the resulting SHA
• that work is then pushed to GitHub
• CircleCI sees the tag being pushed and that triggers a publish job
• the publish job uses a RubyGems API key to release the new version

So that's what I setup with these two PRs:

• Add release workflow to publish gem from CI
• Add script to help automate releases

And I used this config to publish version 0.5.0 just to be sure everything was setup correctly.

Highlights

• worked 39:30, no PTO
• published Kid Swap for Pudding Time
• published What a Crock for Pudding Time
• published Request for Comment #3 for Artsy Engineering Radio
• shipped minor fix for jay

Next Week

I'd love to return to my static site work and finish up that DigitalOcean server post. Let's see if I can make that happen.