Yesterday I thought I pushed out another iteration of our attempt at making the QWAN website more accessible. Turns out I didn’t. While adjusting details, reading CSS and accessibility documentation and blogposts, I missed the fact that the shiny assets pipeline I added does not actually build on github.
So I started to do more reading on how to add more continuous integration. I experienced friction. I read some more. Procrastinated. Then checked how many assets I had added to the pipeline so far. Two instances of our logo, nothing else. I decided to move them together with the rest of the images, and leave the assets pipeline for local experimentation.
Not optimal, but this way I got the satisfaction of moving forward, and I bought myself time to read and experiment. Continuous delivery is an activity we do, supported by tools where necessary. A continuos integration setup tends to be stick around, so we better keep it as simple as possible. We have one that works without maintenance on our part, the github pages default setup. The benefit of delaying this decision is that we can decide how much additional work to incur in the future, while being more specific about the benefits.
Some reading on friction that popped up in my twitter feed:
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