jreleaser VS excalidraw

It uses JReleaser - I believe this is the simplest and the most straightforward way of signing and uploading artifacts.

https://github.com/jreleaser/helloworld-zig defines to a Helloworld app written in Zig, built for Linux and MacOS (x86_64) using GitHub Actions, releasing with JReleaser. With this setup, targeting package managers such as brew, scoop, winget, and thew like becomes much easier. Hope it can serve as a starting point for discussing how Zig built binaries may be released.

The day has come. JReleaser v1.0.0 is here! I'm beyond ecstatic to post this announcement as this release is the culmination of multiple efforts made by all contributors, taking into account feedback received by several early adopters, some of which can be seen here. Remember that all deprecated code has been removed, we recommend upgrading to v1.0.0-M3 first to find out if your build uses deprecated features before moving to v1.0.0.

This guide covers packaging and releasing CLI applications using the JReleaser tool. Built with Quarkus and packaged as native executable using GraalVM Native Image.

JReleaser may be what you are looking for...

There are a few nuances left here and there which is why I'm planning jpackage support for https://jreleaser.org

The configuration file defines the model https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser/blob/main/jreleaser.yml

ExcaliDraw - https://excalidraw.com/

ExcaliDraw

However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw.

Fun fact: I used GA in Excalidraw, and it's still powering some of the interactions! https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/package...

I was happy to find out recently that there is a way to make Mermaid diagrams WYSIWYG / drag and drop editable that the open source https://excalidraw.com has and did I mention it's open source!? With a LLM, you can go full loop back to Mermaid again after a few rounds of manual editing. "What a time to be alive!"

I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize i've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things.

Here are a few tools that i've been using lately that I really enjoy:

https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted firebase/supabase-like "backend in a box" using golang and sqlite. So far i've been really impressed. I've gone the route of extending the base offering with more go code and am really enjoying the experience.

https://excalidraw.com/ - An open source whiteboarding tool. Slick to use and after learning some keybinds I've gotten pretty fast at throwing together diagrams to explain things to people on my team. The killer piece though is that the filetype is just json, so I can source control my diagrams. Even better, their "export to png" function has a box to embed the json data _into_ the png, allowing me to slap the diagram in places that only accept images (think confluence) and still be able to change the diagram later if needed. 10/10.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ - Gitlab's CI/CD toolset is really impressive, and I've gotten really intimate with it's deeper features over the past year. I'd be curious though to hear from someone who's familiar with it vs it's competitors.