Mike Street's Blog

I've recently been utilising and customising Claude Code more - rather than just sticking with what comes out of the box.

No, I don't want AI added to every product, service and website.

We've been reviewing our secret management process and have been evaluating tools to help with streamlining it.

With several developers and a great deal of production servers we need access to, managing SSH keys and access across them all was getting complex with potential for mistakes and missed authentication.

Keeping track of which developer is connecting to which server can be a job in itself.

Publishing private composer packages is a fiddly business - especially if you want a usable UI along with it.

You've been staring at the same project for weeks.

I recently ran into an issue with DDEV 1.25 and was upgrading and downgrading between the two versions to test, check and verify.

Like 2024, 2025 passed without major incident or upheaval.

We use Makefiles in our repositories to wrangle commands for setting up, pulling and linting our code.

This years quiz of the year [category/quiz/] needs the following: * The slides (linked below) * The info and notes below * Pens and paper for your teams The quiz can be played in teams or individually - I'll leave it to you to work it out.

After having RustFS [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/setting-up-rustfs-as-an-amazon-s3-replacement/] running as our Gitlab CI cache [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/use-minio-to-cache-gitlab-containers-and-runners/] for a few weeks the server (as ex…

Sending emails in this mad world of spam is a tricky business.

I was at TYPO3 Camp London [https://t3cl25.typo3.com/] recently when Martin Helmich casually dropped that RustFS [https://rustfs.com/en/] was a solid MinIO replacement.

The idea of shower thoughts are things for you to ponder or wonder, these are ones that I have read on the internet (I take no credit) and often think about for no reason at all. > Sleep is one of the few things we pretend to do to actually do it Close yo…