Mitya's Self-Explanatory

Automating deployment to VPS from GitHub

In my previous post, I described a workflow that connects data with an app that visualizes the data.

There's one step left: automatically deploying the web app from GitHub to a server after every push to the repo's default branch.

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Connecting data to representation with GitHub Actions

In any project that shows data to users, be it documentation or a linguistic database, data must be separated from its representation.

This is almost an axiom. You have to keep your data in an easy-to-edit, non-proprietary format, while the tools with which you show the data to users can be as complex as needed. Tools tend to get outdated, and your data cannot depend on them.

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Lena Shakurova on automation + other people that can teach you to automate routine tasks

I watched this video on automation by Lena Shakurova and I thought I could use a summary.

I should only consider automating a process if:

• It's a standard process with multiple steps
• I have no time to do the task manually
• I'm not organized enough to follow through with the whole process properly

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