Posts tagged: dogfood
The Complete CI/CD Architecture of a Solo Developer's Blog
A deep-dive into the CI/CD pipeline that ships a 180+ post static blog from a Chromebook to production — with diagrams, cost analysis, and the architecture decisions behind every stage.
Why I Ditched My Self-Hosted Runner for GitLab Shared Runners — and Made It Work on ARM Chromebooks
I moved my static site's GitLab Pages pipeline from a self-hosted shell runner to any shared runner, including ARM64 Chromebooks, by installing Babashka, pandoc, and a diagram renderer inside the CI job.
The 4-Stage Chain That Ships This Site
One commit, four stages, no manual deploys — the local → local runner → GitLab Pages → nurazhar.com pipeline that publishes every post on this blog.
How I Stopped Burning GitLab's 400-Minute Quota — A Self-Hosted Runner on My Own Box
GitLab's free tier is 400 CI minutes a month — fine for occasional commits, hostile if you post daily. I swapped the shared runner for a self-hosted one on my own machine. The quota became irrelevant. This post is the first publish through the new pipeline.