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...
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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...
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....
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...