Renovate - Dependabot, but cooler

Automatically Updating Versions in GitHub Actions Using Renovate Everyone starts off by never pinning their versions, relying on :latest till the day some dependency pops up and fucks whatever you are deploying. Afterwards, you start following best practices but encounter why so many people follow bad practices - like :latest. Manually updating dependencies is a pain in the ass. Usually Dependabot does the job. And it would probably do here as well. But a while ago I started using Renovate at work and I became quiet a fan. ...

June 8, 2025 · 3 min · benedict

How to Set Up Hugo and Deploy via GitHub Actions

Before we start Make sure you have: Go installed (for Hugo) Hugo installed A GitHub account Create your site First step, open your terminal of choice, in my case that’s iTerm2 and think about what you wanna call your website. In my case and in all the following examples that will be blog. After running the hugo new site command with the --format yaml flag (I prefer yaml over toml whenever possible) hugo creates a new directory with pretty much everything you need. Change into that directory and create a new git repository. ...

May 16, 2025 · 3 min · benedict