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Tools we use daily: setups, tricks and battle-tested automations.
n8n is the low-code automation project that has best adapted to self-hosting. A walk through the real install with Docker Compose, the database and queue decisions to make, and the points where most people trip up the first time.
Dependabot and Renovate chase the same goal with different philosophies. I compare both after years running them on my own and client projects, covering when one fits better and when the other suits a team's workflow more.
Generics arrived in Go in March 2022 with high expectations and some skepticism. Three years on, idiomatic code barely uses them on the surface, but they have transformed deep libraries: type-safe collections, database clients, concurrency primitives. This analysis examines what has taken hold and why.
