Hi! I'm Michael
I'm the Director of Developer Relations at Kong where I'm learning interesting things about Kubernetes and service meshes. Outside of work, I enjoy contributing to Open Source as a GitHub Star.
I also like hiking with the dog, and own too many board games.
Latest posts
Test OpenGraph image generation on Netlify locally
Netlify on-demand builders are great, but how do you test Puppeteer + functions locally?
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Dump Context Action
See all the information available to your workflows in the logs by including a single composite action
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Auto-approve Workflow Action
Automatically approve workflow execution from new contributors if they're safe to approve
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Today I Learned
Understanding .gitignore with git check-ignore
Understand why a path is (or isn't!) being ignored in your repository
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Show untracked files with git status
Customise how git shows untracked folders and files in your repository using the -u flag, or the showUntrackedFiles config option
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Books I wrote
Building GitHub Actions (Gumroad, 2020)
Learn how to write your own GitHub Actions in Bash and Javascript, plus how to run them locally and write unit tests.
Ansible: From beginner to pro (Apress, 2016)
A (slightly outdated, but still useful!) introduction to building Ansible playbooks, roles and modules, plus testing with Test Kitchen. There's even bonus content on orchestrating AWS with Ansible
Mastering Express Web Application Development (Packt, 2015)
This one's technically a video series on how to build Express applications. It's very outdated now, but I enjoyed learning about video production at the time.