Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Post Deploy Webhook for Vercel

Paul Kinlan

I needed to find a way to send webhooks after a successful deployment on Vercel, which wasn't a built-in feature. Since Vercel integrations can listen for deployment events, I created one to solve this. It's a simple tool hosted on GitHub that lets you set up custom webhooks for your Vercel projects. It's not on the Vercel Marketplace, and it's more of a workaround until Vercel natively supports deployment webhooks. Check out the GitHub repo for instructions on setting it up with Firebase Firestore.

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Using the Github API to optimise your workflow

Paul Kinlan

We've done a lot of work using Github in the recent past and here is some of the work that we have optimised.

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Auto-deploying Jekyll via Github

Paul Kinlan

This post announces the implementation of automatic deployment for this blog, powered by Jekyll (Octopress) and GitHub WebHooks. The previous workflow involved local editing, committing to GitHub, and deploying via SSH using rake deploy. The new process leverages GitHub WebHooks and a modified version of Github-Auto-Deploy to automatically pull, build, and deploy changes upon pushing to the GitHub repository, simplifying the deployment process and eliminating the need for terminal access and SSH keys.

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