nicholas.cloud

Hi there, I'm Nicholas!

I’m a developer with a passion for cloud platforms, web development and automation!

I use this blog to write about my interests. They’re usually tech-related, but there’s also the odd music and gaming piece too.

Managing secrets in a Rush monorepo with Pass

2021-06-14 // 3 min read

For a while now, I’ve used Rush to manage and deploy a number of Cloudflare Workers from a monorepo. It’s been great for me so far, offering incremental builds and support for alternative package managers like PNPM.

One thing Rush leaves to the discretion of maintainers is secrets management. Given tooling and infrastructure can vary drastically between organisations and even individual projects, there’s nothing wrong with this decision. However, it has lead to me implementing my own less-than-desirable setup.

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I'm excited for The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and the Story Mode feature

2021-05-29 // 2 min read // #gaming

Late last year, I grabbed the original Ace Attorney trilogy on discount after stumbling across a trending fan video. I’ve now played through all six mainline games, and I’m optimistic for a seventh to coincide with the series’ 20th anniversary later this year.

While a new game isn’t confirmed, Capcom will be releasing a localised bundle of The Great Ace Attorney 1 & 2 in a few months. This duo was previously exclusive to Japan, and it’s exiting to see them getting an international release.

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Pretty commits

2021-05-25 // 2 min read

In a chance glance through the Git history of one of my projects last week, I found commit 53331294. A hash with eight leading numbers! A sequence like this isn’t particularly rare, but it’s also not an everyday occurence.

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