a short history of (self-hosted) CI/CD

the early years of CI

Grady Booch (1994) and Kent Beck (1997 at Chrysler) developed the theory of CI (continuous integration), years before there was any CI standard-software.

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a quick vi survival guide

This is for when you get stuck with an abomination of an editor called vi. No sophisticated vi-foo here, this is just the basics that get you covered for simple editing of files.

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CI/CD server landscape in 2026

It’s been a while since I have checked what is going on in the development of CI/CD servers. I’ve worked extensively with Bamboo and TeamCity, and have a fair amount of exposure to GitLab and GitHub. Time for a quick survey.

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some notes on installing Gitea

I’ve been running a heavily outdated version of Gitea. Rather than doing an update on it, I just reinstalled it.

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why I'd never work with Jenkins

Another day, another project turned down, because they use Jenkins for CI/CD (the requirements were that I actually would have had to work with that piece of crap).

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