Blog¶

March 6, 2025
in Mermaid
1 min read

Legends in mermaid diagrams

It might be helpful to add a legend to graphs using Mermaid.

Support for Legends in a Graph

Here are some examples to test workarounds for legends in a graph from mermaid-js/mermaid#2110

February 18, 2025
in MkDocs
2 min read

Blog post template

This is a template file for blog posts in MkDocs.

February 13, 2025
in Knowledge Management
3 min read

Personal time tracking

Notes about self-tracking time spent on different projects each week using different tools.

Review Slack messages sent during the week

Within Slack, you can search for messages you have sent using the following:

from:@SlackUsername
before:2025-02-08
after:2025-02-02

The actual query would be:

from:@SlackUsername before:2025-02-08 after:2025-02-02

February 4, 2025
in Work Tracking
3 min read

Using Scrumban in a distributed team

Note

While this document is not in draft mode it is definitely not complete...

Being flexible and efficient can make working in a distributed team a great experience; sometimes though, you have to be the agent of change to help your team get there. While trying to understand what Scrumban actually is, it seemed best to type it up myself to reinforce what I have learned so far.

Scrumban combines two leading Agile methodologies—Scrum and Kanban—into a single process for getting work done. But what is scrumban? And why should you consider its unique approach?

September 5, 2024
in Browsers
1 min read

Dark mode in chromium browsers

If you use a chromium browser and love dark mode, then keep reading.

Setting dark mode for everything

September 5, 2024
in Hardware
1 min read

Reset a Cisco Catalyst Switch

Here is a summary of the commands needed to reset Cisco Catalyst Switches to factory defaults:

# enter configuration mode
enable
# remove the startup configuration file
write erase
# remove the VLAN configuration
delete flash:vlan.dat
# then reboot the switch
reload

June 25, 2024
in GitHub
2 min read

Enable debug for verbose GitHub Actions

!!!? info

This post is incomplete and will be updated in the future.

If you are using composite actions that support their own verbose mode, you may find you only want to enable verbose mode when the GitHub runner is in debug mode. The variable we need to know is runner.debug, which is also stored as RUNNER_DEBUG.

May 28, 2024
in MkDocs
1 min read

Setting up a blog

From https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/plugins/blog/

Material for MkDocs makes it very easy to build a blog, either as a sidecar to your documentation or standalone. Focus on your content while the engine does all the heavy lifting, automatically generating archive and category indexes, post slugs, configurable pagination and more.

Check out our blog, which is created with the new built-in blog plugin!

March 20, 2024
in coding, Git, GitHub
2 min read

Encouraging git hygine with commitlint

I added a GitHub Action that uses commitlint to my GitHub Actions Monorepo. The GitHub Action is based off of commitlint (commitlint GitHub) and has been added in an effort to encourage (enforce?) good git hygiene. Note: The original actions-ci workflow was added in the v0.1.12 release.

March 18, 2023
in Git
4 min read

Git describe with git tags

Getting tags on a git repository

Use git describe --tags to get the tags.