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Should you work for a consultancy or a product company?

I’ve recently crossed over 2 years in a software consultancy. Previously I spent around 10 years working in product companies.

9 min readSep 11, 2022

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A good starting config for using Renovate with Node/NPM

Renovate is a great tool for keeping your dependencies up to date. The configuration can be a bit daunting at first, so I wanted to share…

6 min readAug 15, 2023

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A good starting config for using Renovate with Node/NPM

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Darragh O Riordan

Npm package provenance with Github Actions

Introduction

3 min readApr 25, 2023

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Running NextJS in a Docker Container

This is a guide on how to run a NextJS application in a Docker container.

5 min readApr 17, 2023

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Building an AI generated game with Stable Diffusion and data from Wikipedia

I wanted to learn about stable diffusion prompts so I built a game with generated images. Here’s how I built it!

11 min readNov 28, 2022

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Building an AI generated game with Stable Diffusion and data from Wikipedia

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DORA metric monitoring for your team in just 15 minutes with Apache Dev Lake

DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics are an excellent way for engineering organisations to measure and improve their performance.

7 min readOct 16, 2022

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4 Surprising uses for GitHub as a cloud datastore

GitHub is a great place to store code. But it’s also a great place to store any data that you need backed up, versioned, accessible from…

6 min readOct 13, 2022

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4 Surprising uses for GitHub as a cloud datastore

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How to use SSH with Git and ssh-agent on Windows

I needed to run git natively in windows (no wsl) for a recent project. I use ssh certificates to authenticate with my git provider and it…

2 min readSep 25, 2022

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How to use SSH with Git and ssh-agent on Windows

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Intro to persistence — Caching

With most web applications you can drastically increase performance by using caching for data that’s frequently read across network…

7 min readSep 7, 2022

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Intro to persistence — Caching

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How to replace social media for birthdays and contacts with Monica on Dokku

How to replace social media’s birthday reminders with a much better tool and create a self owned personal Heroku replacement with Dokku.

7 min readAug 28, 2022

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How to replace social media for birthdays and contacts with Monica on Dokku

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Darragh O Riordan

Darragh O Riordan

I live and work in Sydney, Australia enjoying the mountains and the ocean. I build and support happy teams that create high quality software for the web!

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