PinnedDarragh O RiordanShould 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 read·Sep 11, 2022--1--1
Darragh O RiordanA good starting config for using Renovate with Node/NPMRenovate 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 read·Aug 15, 2023----
Darragh O RiordanRunning NextJS in a Docker ContainerThis is a guide on how to run a NextJS application in a Docker container.5 min read·Apr 17, 2023--1--1
Darragh O RiordanBuilding an AI generated game with Stable Diffusion and data from WikipediaI wanted to learn about stable diffusion prompts so I built a game with generated images. Here’s how I built it!11 min read·Nov 28, 2022----
Darragh O RiordanDORA metric monitoring for your team in just 15 minutes with Apache Dev LakeDORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics are an excellent way for engineering organisations to measure and improve their performance.7 min read·Oct 16, 2022----
Darragh O Riordan4 Surprising uses for GitHub as a cloud datastoreGitHub 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 read·Oct 13, 2022----
Darragh O RiordanHow to use SSH with Git and ssh-agent on WindowsI 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 read·Sep 25, 2022----
Darragh O RiordanIntro to persistence — CachingWith most web applications you can drastically increase performance by using caching for data that’s frequently read across network…7 min read·Sep 7, 2022----
Darragh O RiordanHow to replace social media for birthdays and contacts with Monica on DokkuHow to replace social media’s birthday reminders with a much better tool and create a self owned personal Heroku replacement with Dokku.7 min read·Aug 28, 2022----