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A simple COVID-19 dashboard I made on the weekend

Pascal Meunier — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:55:18 +0000

I made a simple dashboard over the weekend to monitor the Coronavirus situation.

It all started last friday and I learned a lot on this journey. First I started to mess with jq to convert the CSV files in a more friendly format (JSON). Then I figured that D3.js and Lodash can parse CSV files and transform the data on the fly. 🤯

Soon I had a beautiful and less stressful chart. 🥳

https://covid.ninja/

Let me know what you think. I will try to add a few features on the next hours/days.

Thank you!

Linkdump for 2020-W01: WebAuthn, Drone, Lando, Laradock, Hammerspoon ...

Pascal Meunier — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:24:53 +0000

This is the first post of the my weekly linkdump series. I want to start this mainly because I come across so many stuff every week and I wanted to share what cought my attention.

If you are an avid HackerNews follower, some of these are probably not "news" to you ;)

WebAuthn

This is the new standard from W3C to address this never ending mess of passwords. I hope to have time to play around with it the next weeks.

Link: https://webauthn.guide/
Demo: https://webauthn.io/
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21962424

Drone

That's my absolute favorite CI/CD tool so far. The main advantages I see are: minimalist, written in Go, built on Docker, solid documentation and ease of use. I have been able to setup the server and the runner in a few minutes.

Link: https://drone.io/
Documentation: https://docs.drone.io/
Git: https://github.com/drone/drone

Lando

When it comes to use the right too for your local developement environement, there are a lot of choices. This one is based on Docker and seems to support a lot of services and stacks.

Link: https://lando.dev/
Documentation: https://docs.lando.dev/basics/
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21301665

Laradock

Yet another pile of Docker setup files to build your local PHP environement. I tested it and the performance seems to be great so far. I will probably fork it later this year to see if we can migrate our internal Vagrant LEMP stack.

Link: https://laradock.io/
Git: https://github.com/laradock/laradock

Hammerspoon

This is a nice and very powerful tool for MacOS automation. This is written in Lua and the documentation is very simple to follow. I will have to dedicate a whole article on this one.

Link: https://www.hammerspoon.org/
Documentation: https://www.hammerspoon.org/go/
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21801178

Svelte and Sapper

An alternative to React and Vue without Virtual DOM. This looks promising and the comments on HN are great so far.

Link: https://svelte.dev/
Link: https://sapper.svelte.dev/
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21376557
HackerNews (2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950253

sscaffold

We use Bootstrap a lot at work, but sometimes it's nice get back to the basic with a minimialist approach. This one is based on normalize.css, skeleton.css and miligram.

Link: https://sscaffold-css.com/
Git: https://github.com/robsheldon/sscaffold-css/
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21948472

That's it for today!

My (dev) Year in Review (2019)

Pascal Meunier — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 08:00:16 +0000

Well, it's this time of the year. 🎄

This year was actually very productive for me on the technical side. I managed to complete a lot of projects and start new ones.

A few milestones:

Migrated all our clients and internal services from Apache to Nginx 🚀
Migrated our frontend builds from Gulp to Webpack 📦
Upgraded our internal LEMP stack on Vagrant 😎
Published my first PHP package for Laravel 🤓
Played with KVM and libvirt a lot 🧰
Learned Docker and published my first container for Ubuntu 🐳
Learned Lua and messed with Hammerspoon and LÖVE 😍

For the next year, my goal would be to publish more.

Looking forward for 2020, bring it on! ⛄️