Use FZF to Show the Contents of an AWS S3 Object
Once you discover fzf, you want to use it everywhere. It’s clean, powerful, and versatile. In this post, I show you how to use fzf to display the contents of a file in S3....
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Git GUIs: A Tale of Two Source Models
I’ll confess: I use a GUI for Git. Not always, and not even most of the time. The CLI is usually quicker, and I’m usually in the terminal anyway, but yet I also use...
How to Set Up a Domain in Amazon Route 53 with Terraform
Edit: Oct 12, 2021 Please note the comment by Chris Harrison, below, regarding a breaking change with lists vs sets. Original Start: I’ve lately used Terraform to set up several domains in Route 53....
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...
Using fzf and oc to rsh into an OpenShift Pod
Getting a remote shell on an OpenShift pod is simple enough; you type: $ oc rsh <pod name> Pod names can be long and complex, however. Here’s an example: mysql-coolapp-5-rg59c Only a luddite would...
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...
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”) &&...
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...