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My 5th Year at GitLab: Developer Advocate Journey, AI Adventures, and Finding Balance

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My 5th Year at GitLab: Developer Advocate Journey, AI Adventures, and Finding Balance

Join me in my 5th year at GitLab - from ambitious Staff Developer Advocate promotion, leading AI initiatives, traveling Europe for events, and building meaningful connections. A story of growth, challenges, and the joy of working with a global remote team while staying true to personal passions.

Michi, Limited Edition - 4 years all-remote at GitLab

Michi, Limited Edition - 4 years all-remote at GitLab

It is rare that I feel that every year in my career brings me forward. 4 years in a row now at GitLab. New challenges, new growth, and new rewards. I feel more confident with my peers, gaining trust and building relationships. Technology and "I have no idea, how

Three years all-remote at GitLab: Know the unknown unknowns (growth, life, and work)

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Three years all-remote at GitLab: Know the unknown unknowns (growth, life, and work)

2023-03-02 marks my third year at GitLab. I have been very busy in 2022, did not stop much to reflect on great moments. This blog post is a summary, reflection, and shows my true vulnerable self. It may not be 100% applicable to your career aspirations or path to follow.

2 years all-remote and my 2022 vision

2 years all-remote and my 2022 vision

Two years all-remote feels different throughout a pandemic and is nowhere near what I had planned. I needed to adjust to the situation and make it a different, challenging, yet exciting adventure. This blog post will focus on remote work, my challenges, growth, mistakes, and success. Let's start

Unblock CI/CD pipelines with async needs depedendencies

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Efficient DevSecOps Pipelines in a Cloud Native World - free workshop

Getting started with CI/CD has become more easy with the DevOps platform era [https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/08/03/welcome-to-the-devops-platform-era/]. GitLab provides a new pipeline editor to help with onboarding, and allow to prevent common configuration mistakes. Pipelines and their definitions are always changing, and a work

Efficient pipelines in GitLab CI/CD: Parallel Matrix Builds + !reference

Efficient pipelines in GitLab CI/CD: Parallel Matrix Builds + !reference

Today I was diving deeper into GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Efficiency tricks, after I discovered resuable job attributes with !reference [https://dnsmichi.at/2021/09/17/reusable-job-attributes-in-other-jobs-in-gitlab-ci-cd-with-reference/] last week. Resource optimization is a big topic, and next to ideas on failing fast, I was looking into more parallelization. Luckily GitLab

Reusable job attributes in other jobs in GitLab CI/CD with !reference

Reusable job attributes in other jobs in GitLab CI/CD with !reference

Today I wrote some Python code [https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/merge_requests/6] and figured that I do not have linting available with pyflakes in CI/CD. Been reading this great blog post [https://dmerej.info/blog/post/how-i-lint/] and built a short snippet: stages: - lint -

Learn JSON superpowers with jq - automate GitLab Personal Access Token management

Learn JSON superpowers with jq - automate GitLab Personal Access Token management

I've seen a question on the GitLab forum [https://forum.gitlab.com/t/deleting-personal-access-tokens-via-the-api/50382?u=dnsmichi] about managing Personal Access Tokens (PATs) with the API [https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/personal_access_tokens.html]. While trying things, I had a peek into filtering the output and

GitLab To-dos for async productivity

GitLab To-dos for async productivity

Use the /todo quick action in an issue to add it as a To-do, and follow-up later.

My 1st year all-remote at GitLab

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My 1st year all-remote at GitLab

Hi 👋 Remember this tweet [https://twitter.com/dnsmichi/status/1234573403002200064] just a few months ago? It was ~2 weeks before life changed drastically, on March 2nd, 2020 ... I made ambitious plans. 1 month onboarding, and then KubeCon EU, travelling Europe and later visiting the US. I was about to meet

KubeCon NA and beyond

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KubeCon NA and beyond

I started marking interesting sessions on my sched.com profile [https://kccncna20.sched.com/dnsmichi?iframe=no], also knowing about overlaps. I recommend reserving a focus time block after KubeCon to watch parallel sessions on-demand. The keynotes are always insightful and thoughtful, and inclusive. > "Diversity-powered resilience is what

DM on GitLab Slack: I need your DNS skills!

DM on GitLab Slack: I need your DNS skills!

How to start a good story? Uh oh. I used to actively maintain [https://dnsmichi.at/about/] DNS infrastructures from 2009-2012 at the University of Vienna, only ops troubleshooting since then. Ok ... let's see. I am located near Nuremberg, Brendan joins from Maryland. Dummy check in the browser

3. #everyonecancontribute Kaeffchen

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3. #everyonecancontribute Kaeffchen

This week we welcomed 3 new guests into our lovely German coffee chat: Michael [https://twitter.com/tonka_2000], Marcel [https://twitter.com/winem_] and Niclas [https://twitter.com/solidnerd]! everyonecancontribute 2.0 As we want to make everyonecancontribute.com [https://www.everyonecancontribute.com/] our home as well as keep

2. #everyonecancontribute Kaeffchen

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2. #everyonecancontribute Kaeffchen

Lately this iterative conversation happened in our technical evangelism [https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/technical-evangelism/] team chat: * Let's do a hangout on the latest tech! * We have so little German content, let's try this language to break the barrier and insecure feeling English may cause.

Did you read the news today?

Did you read the news today?

I'm busy [https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi]. Too busy to read the news today. More work than I ever anticipated when joining GitLab. #allremote works for me, and I am not doing extra hours or going weekend routes. "Work" provides me with satisfaction and fun, I invest

1. Everyone Can Contribute Käffchen

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1. Everyone Can Contribute Käffchen

This is a German coffee chat virtually hosted by me. Inspired by https://www.everyonecancontribute.com/ Wann: Jeden Mittwoch, 17:00 Uhr CEST. Vielleicht auch mal später, einfach auf Twitter [https://twitter.com/dnsmichi] folgen und fragen. Wer: Du und Michael Friedrich [https://twitter.com/dnsmichi], Nico Meisenzahl [https://twitter.

First time all remote: My new workspace feat. standing desk and curved monitor

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First time all remote: My new workspace feat. standing desk and curved monitor

When I started my job at GitLab on March 2nd, I had made great plans for my all remote environment. Thanks to the GitLab handbook with many tips included ...

Dark mode for the Web IDE in GitLab

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Dark mode for the Web IDE in GitLab

The Web IDE [https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/] is fully integrated into the GitLab workflow: * Edit/upload a file * Write and code with advanced syntax highlighting & tools tips * Commit the change, create a branch and Merge Request * CI/CD feedback on the right, no context

dotfiles - Document and automate your Macbook setup

dotfiles - Document and automate your Macbook setup

Why dotfiles When I first started working on Windows, Linux and macOS many years ago, there was this steep learning curve. Not everything on the system had a good default for improved productivity, often tools were missing to create your own work environment. At first glance, I started writing blog

User experience challenge: Installing GitLab

User experience challenge: Installing GitLab

Yesterday I joined the UX group conversation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md2bcmN_47A] and we had a look into the installation page for GitLab. The order was misaligned, with making Raspberry Pi the number one distribution for running GitLab. Well, of course you can run it there -

First time all remote: Challenge accepted

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First time all remote: Challenge accepted

Every day brings a new challenge. I don't know when life will become "normal" again, I've adjusted my habits already to #stayathome.

First time all remote: Expect the unexpected

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First time all remote: Expect the unexpected

First time #allremote for everyone My dear friends Markus and Nicole were exercising a new situation on the weekend - they have been preparing to work from home.

First time all remote: My first week at GitLab

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First time all remote: My first week at GitLab

A good friend of mine said last week: "You really look happy, I haven't seen this in a long time." That's true, my first week at GitLab was truly overwhelming. It is my first time starting an all remote job [https://about.gitlab.com/

Everyone can contribute - I'm joining GitLab

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Everyone can contribute - I'm joining GitLab

Open source is where I meet people from all over the world. We become friends, and help build a great community with chats and laughter. I really enjoy helping people - with writing good documentation and howtos or just peeking into questions on community channels. In 2009, I've