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 was still on the air when I started using Macs. The Curse of the Bambino hadn’t been …
Read more →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. Dependencies fzf AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) An AWS account One or more S3 buckets …
Read more →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 a GUI. Why? Primarily for reviewing diffs and history, or for performing rarely used …
Read more →While addressing some linter issues today, I couldn’t figure out how to destructure from a JavaScript object while: Renaming a field and Destructuring nested fields from that same field Renaming, I could do. Nested fields, no problem. But to do both, for the …
Read more →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. My searches on the topic found posts more ambitious than this …
Read more →If you read through to the end of my The Ultimate Linux Developer Desktop 2020 post, instead of just copying the PCPartPicker list, you saw that I couldn’t get my CPU Cooler to light up. It just sat there, reflecting other light sources but providing no light …
Read more →Excuse the hyperbolic title. That’s what I googled when doing my research. My goal: build a blazing machine for developing software using: JavaScript / Node Go Rust Python AWS My late-2013 MacBook Pro is still serviceable, so I didn’t need portability. I’m …
Read more →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 easier to work with when they’re formatted as multiple lines, but with line …
Read more →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 willingly type all of that, and mousing around a terminal to …
Read more →Back in the 1970s, my father and his partner ran a small consulting firm. Their accountant, a man named Morty or Artie or some other name that conjures images of a perm, polyester, and a butterfly collar, charged by the minute. I think each minute cost a …
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