Blog of Jan Meischner about Software Development and Productivity

This Blog contains stories I experienced and lessons I learned during daily work and while creating new ideas and projects. This material should be a reference for myself and I’m more than happy if it will help someone to solve her own challenges.

Deploy KrakenD as API Gateway in a Minikube Cluster

18 January, 2022

In this post I want to describe how to setup a local Minikube environment with an API Gateway solution called KrakenD. An API Gateway acts as a reverse proxy and ingress for your cluster containing all further backend services. It can handle rate li…

Setup staticman as blog comment solution

01 February, 2021

After I set up my blog with GitHub Pages it became obvious that one major feature is missing: a comment area. I did some research, and it seems that disqus is the major player in that regard. As I don’t want to spend money for that I dug further and…

How I created my own Blog

31 May, 2020

I've been playing with the idea of creating my own blog for a long time. I played with ghost a few years ago because I was some kind of Node.js enthusiast and wanted to try hosting this on my personal NAS. After I learned how easy it is to host a pr…

My Projects

alfred-bear

alfred-bear is a workflow to use in combination with alfred for mac. Create scripted templates in bear straight from alfred.

todoco

todoco is a command line tool to extract and work with ToDo comments in source code. Implemented with

QuickRunner

Test Runner for Swift Packages in combination with Quick Testing Framework