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Kreotiko | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo

You are probably right to be honest. I think Duolingo is hyperhyped because of the main market it operates, americans tring to learn a second language, which has a very low bar.

I speak already most of the main languages Duolingo teaches and the other courses are pretty weak

Kreotiko | 4 years ago | on: GitHub Actions by Example

Sure, the main things for me are:

It doesn’t matter how smart you are with reusable workflows you will never get to a truly DRY setup that scales for dozens of repositories.

Another major pain is that we still haven’t private actions. It was due end of 2021 (maybe it is out now but I checked a couple of days ago).

Setting up runners to look after a pool of repositories needs elevated permissions.

GH offers a way to enforce a list of enabled actions but this does not work with private binary registries hosting pre built Docker actions. The only thing that could prevent you to pull software at runtime from the internet, which means, if you want to have a decent security posture all you are left with is referencing actions using the full git sha version.

Many common use case require hacks, which is fun for a weekend project but isn’t great for a large scale operation. An example is simply running a workflow dynamically targeting the folders containing changes. At the moment you have to create a job, generate a build matrix on the fly and pass it in input as the matrix to the actual job.

Kreotiko | 4 years ago | on: GitHub Actions by Example

Word of advice, if you are thinking of running self hosted runners and use Actions for your organisation, do yourself a favour and check them out in a year or two and use something like Argo Workflows or Tekton instead.

GHA isn’t a product thought for GH private organisations, you will find that every much needed feature for this use is very low in GH roadmap.

Kreotiko | 4 years ago | on: Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published

If information security people would spend the same amount of time they are spending complaining about this vulnerability trying to educate their organisations on the importance of supporting open source solutions they depend on we wouldn’t be in this situation. I am sick of reading of very senior people complaining about the impact this vulnerability has had on their week when their companies don’t even contribute a penny to open source projects.

Kreotiko | 4 years ago | on: Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation

I don’t see how you couldn’t learn both. Terraform is dead simple to learn and cloud formation is the best way to define your infrastructure in code in AWS. Even more wrapped by CDK. I don’t think you would go that far career wise knowing only with Terraform for IaC.

I also don’t understand those organisations that use every single AWS managed solution (RDS, Redis, Elasticsearch, EKS) but then they feel the need to manage their infrastructure state themselves with Terraform instead of choosing the managed solution for this.

Kreotiko | 4 years ago | on: Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation

That’s the problem. People think they can get away without knowing languages just because most resources have been translated. They don’t know that they are missing out on a huge portion of information they will never fully understand. The education system is lacking on promoting culture rather than eligibility to work in U.K. and this makes things much worse

Kreotiko | 4 years ago | on: Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation

I believe it to be a cultural thing. Sure, you don’t necessarily have the incentive to learn a language for work but the education system does not promote it either. I know a lot mainland European who speak languages other than English just out of interest for other cultures with no real use in their daily job.

Kreotiko | 4 years ago | on: Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation

In other languages it wouldn’t happen at the same scale due to people also speaking a second language and realise these dynamics. Do you know many native English speakers speaking a second language fluently? I have been living in the U.K. for over 10 years and can count them on a hand.
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