Testing time objects can be a pain. Some languages offer some helpful libraries that can help like VCR in Ruby. Other tools to help are mocking libraries to where you can mock and stub out the time calls to what you want. In golang there is another way to help and that is using dependency injection to help make testing easier.

If you’ve ever had to work with a lot of date logic in javascript you’ve likely used or at least seen Momentjs. It can be convenient for moving dates to other timezones or date math. I ran into another today I learned moment trying to write some tests in Jest while using moment to handle dates in test setup and fixtures.

Gitlab has been approaching the hosted VCS solution with a more robust and thought out handling of the entire release pipeline for code instead of the basic features of a git flow approach. Enter GitlabCI.

Ansible is a provisioning tool to easily help you get your infrastructure under control. One of the key elements in Ansible is a role. There are public roles to get you started quickly with Ansible over at Ansible Galaxy. One thing Ansible is sort of lacking is a strong testing approach for open source roles.