Fridge Door: a Message Board with a Raspberry Pi and Tidbyt
This article launches a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Note that you can skip the Tidbyt and use a monitor to display messages. Here are...
Author: Rob Warner
Set Upstream Branch for Git
Update 8/17/2022: I just learned about the new git setting: push.autoSetupRemote — I learned it from here, and so can you! You’ve seen it many times: So what do you do? You go to...
Supercharging asdf with FZF
Update (August 12, 2022): Just noticed this commit that changes the output format for the current version in asdf list — updated accordingly. Update (August 11, 2022): I’ve added more intelligent version sorting and...
Displaying Your Kitty Theme Colors
Update (12/15/21): So I hadn’t updated kitty in awhile, and now themes are built in. Everything is mostly the same, except that the file containing your colors has a different name. And you don’t...
Insert UUIDs in Vim / Neovim
In my forays with Deequ, I found myself frequently inserting UUIDs into test JSON files. Although Online UUID Generator worked for this purpose, copy-pasta between browser and editor started to feel clunky. Time to...
Switch Among Java Versions: FZF and SDKMAN!
The bang in the subject belongs to SDKMAN!, not me. It’s a tool for managing versions of various Java-world tools. Think nvm for Java, Maven, Groovy, et al. I’ve been back in Java world...
Using sed to Update Markdown Headers
I’m in the process of migrating an existing set of markdown documents to an internal Docusaurus blog. The markdown-to-html rendering with Docusaurus has proved decidedly less forgiving than our existing renderer, so I’ve been...
The Lambda function result failed validation
I’ve been working with Lambda@Edge a lot lately. Throwing compute to the edge of a CloudFront distribution is handy for things like authorizing requests. Development can be frustrating, however, with slow turnaround times for...
Use System Clipboard for Vi Copy Mode in Tmux in macOS and Linux
Since I sync my dotfiles through GitHub, I wanted to implement something that will work on both macOS and Linux. Enter if-shell, which is documented in tmux’s man page: In short, you can run...
Hijacked by Malware: My Wife’s Perpetual Search Woes
I’ve used Macs since 2004. I’ve never gotten a virus. I’ve never had a virus try to trick me into installing it. I’ve never sniffed any malware on any of my Macs, and Friends...