github-actions: complain messages to a company in automated way

I am alive !!! Right, I did not post anything for long time and could not imagine that this will be my next blog post after long time, but it is indeed. This is a story about a company who hold the product (- sent for warranty -) for five months and did not respond any emails. Let’s start from the beginning of the story, the product itself is not important, instead how they (- company -) approached to situation is important. ...

February 25, 2022 · 4 min · mrturkmen

ansible: deploy easily in simple steps

In this post, deployment process of an application with Ansible will be explained. Traditionally applications can be deployed in different ways, quite similar approach to deploy applications like in Ansible is executing bash script which has ssh commands. To give an example, Travis continuous integration has a feature where a bash script can be defined to deploy application and through given instructions within bash script, application can be successfully deployed. ...

December 12, 2020 · 6 min · mrturkmen

ansible: introductory handwritten notes

While watching video tutorial about Ansible, I took some notes and created following PDF file. INTRODUCTION TO ANSIBLE HANDWRITTEN NOTES

December 5, 2020 · 1 min · mrturkmen

youtubeto: download and save playlists to releases on Github

In some moments, Youtube algorithm is working perfect, but sometimes it shows a video from ten years ago from nowhere. For the moments where it shows and suggests videos/playlists to us, we might want to save the list of playlist and watch in some other time. It could be on a plane, train, bus, whenever you are planning to spent some time. However, taking the URL of a playlist and saving it to your cute note program might not be sufficient enough. There is a high chance that it will be forgotten or missed, therefore, I thought that it would be nice to have an automated way of saving playlists on somewhere and download them when I need. (- in particular, when there is no or limited internet connection -). ...

November 24, 2020 · 9 min · mrturkmen

auto-latex: generate and handle latex through github actions

In this post, I will be describing to setup a workflow to build and release your Latex files through Github actions. First of all, keep in mind that this post is not about what is Latex and how to use it. It is extremely nice to integrate daily development tools such as CI/CD to your preparation of paper, without any hassle. Why is that because it is cool to track of what has been changed on a paper over time. In fact, having a couple of people who are responsible in different parts of paper, sometimes blocks others. Therefore, having such a workflow will increase productivity for everyone in a group. Whenever pull request created to main branch, it will be easy to check typos, logic errors and missing points by others. ...

October 26, 2020 · 3 min · mrturkmen