Gogs

I installed Gogs after a few repos I planned to use on GitHub disappeared without explanation, and after Microsoft's acquisition of same, it made me think about the over-centralization of community-developed software. A self-hosted solution that enables easy point-and-click mirroring of important repositories for my projects, both in-house and 3rd-party, ensures I won't be bitten by upstream catastrophes. (So far, Microsoft's stewardship has been fine, but always be prepared). It's also a very nice way to host one's own private repos before they're ready for prime-time on github.

Gogs is written in Golang and is easy to install and configure, IMHO much more so than GitLab, though it's of course less feature-rich; the only major feature I wish Gogs had is an integrated code review tool, but the web plugin hypothes.is https://stackshare.io/hypothes-is/hypothes-is is quite suitable as a code review tool. Set up a group for each code review, and just highlight lines to add comments in pull request pages of Gogs.

Got frustrated with the complexities of heavyweight build automation/continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Concourse or Buildbot so I built my own in Golang . https://gogs.blitter.com/Russtopia/bacillus. Well under 1K SLOC, no JVM or containers required. Config nearly 100% in the launch script itself.

Go is a lean, powerful language that takes a lot of cognitive load off of the developer with rich data manipulation functions and easy to use HTTP/net libs and concurrency. Combined with gopherjs this old-timey embedded programmer finally found a sensible language for both front- and back-end web development.