TL;DR checkout github-actions-runner running with rootless DIND on ubunu

GitHub Actions are awesome right? They’re not perfect - but what tool is? Some 3rd party CICD tools are probably better but they would have to be significantly better to get over the native/3rd party barrier. After thoroughly reviewing features and competitors I don’t think any 3rd party is signifantly better and the native integration is first class. For better functionality you would have to migrate completely (inc. VCS) to a different platform (eg. GitLab).

Sauce Labs is an automated web and mobile testing cloud. They take on the difficulty of managing browsers, VMs, devices and emulators and allow you to concentrate on code.

Mocha by design runs tests in series. Often this is not efficient and you might want to run some or all of the tests in parallel.

Update in 2021

It may not be VBA anyone but I still stand by my original advice:

Excel formulas, the world’s most popular programming language, is now Turing-complete. Go check it out! - Satya Nadella - Microsoft CEO

I'm proud to introduce my new side-project: Edilora, the C2 and Planning app for organisations deploying teams in an outdoor environment.

Skip to “Now the meat of the post” if financial data doesn’t interest you.

tl;dr I spent a long time establishing that OS and hardware doesn’t matter. It’s all about whether I can run my code and being productive. Luckily for me, my preferred tech stack runs pretty much consistently across most devices. I believe that Samsung Dex is the best option in the phone/desktop like environment category. Dex works pretty well but it’s hobbled by poor third-party software support and the fact you have to carry a giant puck-dock with you when a simple cable converter will do.

I came across this article on The Register this morning whilst perusing the tech press over a coffee.

I’ve just deployed CircleCI for a VetCraft , a client of mine. Continuous Integration and Delivery is always impresses me. It follows our GitHub repository and when we commit to the development branch, it checks out the code, downloads our dependencies (Composer , NPM and Bower ), runs our build script (Gulp for Laravel ) and runs our tests (PHPUnit ). If all is successful it gzips the results and scps it to our development server, brings the server down, runs database migrations, a few more tests and then brings the server back up.