Reformatting X12 in Vim
I’ve been working with a lot of ANSI X12 files lately. Often, they come to me formatted either as a single line, or as multiple lines with line breaks at 80 columns. They’re much...
Category: Development
Down the Raspberry Pi Rabbit Hole
I can be easily distracted. Lately, I’ve been working on a new blog of sorts, but instead of technical stuff, this blog will focus on writings about life. I think. I’m almost 10,000 words...
Installing Go 1.12 on MacOS High Sierra
Go 1.12 was released three days ago (Feb 25, 2019). I upgraded my personal MacBook Pro, which runs Mojave, with: The upgrade failed with the error: The upgrade ran fine. Then, I tried to...
Go, HTTP Headers, and Rubber Duck Debugging
A recent Jira ticket instructed me to make a call from one of my Go services to another group’s service. I’d perform a PUT to a specific URL to create a service provider in...
Automatically Close NerdTree When Using Vimade
As the NERDTree README points out, you can automatically close Vim if NERDTree is the only open window by adding this to your configuration: autocmd bufenter * if (winnr(“$”) == 1 && exists(“b:NERDTree”) &&...
Building Microservices in Go Using Go Kit
Last August, I spoke at Code on the Beach on building microservices in Go using Go kit. Here’s the video: The repo I used is available at https://github.com/hoop33/roster and the Node CLI is available...
How to Return All Fields for a GraphQL Query
A frequent GraphQL question is how to return all fields in a GraphQL query without specifying them all; see here or here or here. The conversation typically goes like this: Q: “How can I...
Restricting ripgrep to certain file types
I’ve been using ripgrep to search files for awhile, but I hadn’t figured out how to recursively search only certain file types. Anytime I needed to search, say, for any occurrence of “doFoo” in Go...
Ctags for GraphQL Schemas
I’ve been developing some GraphQL services lately. Since I use Neovim (and fzf) for editing, I wanted Ctags support for my schema files. Here’s what I came up with: I’d love feedback — thanks!
Making “java -v”, “java –version”, and “java version” Work
To get the version of most CLI tools, you type the tool’s command name followed by one of these: -v –version Some CLI tools, like Git, support a “version” subcommand, so you type the tool’s...