A personal recap of things I explored, learned, or questioned in tech this month.
🔧 What I Worked On
- Improving full CI/CD template for my projects
- I keep improving
- Gitlab global planning system
- I created a main group where all the projects belong. It contains all the tags that is throughout the projects
- I’m really glad for the ability to organize better my projects inside the gitlab instead of using an external tool
- ChronosUp
- I resumed the development of the project
- I was able to change from webpack to turbopack
- Removed stripe integration and its dependencies
🌐 Homelab Updates
- Update Dokploy 0.28.0 → 0.28.4
- Update Docmost 0.25.3 → 0.70.1
- Update Linkwarden 2.11.3 → 2.13.5
- Update Immich 1.144.1 → 2.6.3
- Update Gitlab 18.9.1 → 18.10.2
📚 What I Learned
- Kubernetes
- Priority Class
- Scheduler Profiles
- Admission Controller
- Cursor
- You can reference files, part of the code and terminal output in the prompt.
- Kubernetes multi-cluster is a really challenging feature
- It looks like we are far away of a good solution from it
🧠 Things That Surprised Me
- Quarkus and Spring Boot have different cron format
- Linux: */2 * * * * = every 2 minutes
- Quarkus/Spring: */2 * * * * = every 2 SECONDS
- Cursor worked pretty well in some complex contexts
- Celery adds an extra layer in the communication of RabbitMQ
- celery-node is not compatible with RabbitMQ version 4
📎 Links or Resources I Found Useful
📹 Youtube Videos I watched
💬 Final Thoughts
- After a while not touching anything in the code, I recovered the desire to work back in ChronosUp
- I’m changing a little the project from a productivity tool for a mental health tool
- So, many changes will come next months that will improve it
- I didn’t have the time to run a local kubernetes yet
