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It’s hard to finish stuff. Since becoming a father, now quite a few years ago, I’ve hadn’t brought a side project to a satisfying state: I created this Blog, that has been lying around with half-finished posts for a long time. I’ve tried to create a linter for Solr configuration… thrice! I’ve tried to create a image shrinking GitHub Action For sure another 5 things I can’t even think of I’ve been frustrated with this for a while and didn’t really see a way out....

It is not often that we find tools we actually start to use regularly. We should celebrate finding these rare treasures. Last year, I found 3 such treasures I want to share with you today. Renovate Renovate I think was the biggest surprise of 2021 for me. Maybe the simplest pitch for it could be: “Dpendabot on steroids”. It will find dependencies in your code, you haven’t thought about in ages and will suggest updates for them....