Flipping a Rusty Coin
Recently, my boss asked me for a server capacity planning model. This was a new ask for me. I can launch Excel with the best of ‘em: fire up Alfred and type “ex<enter>”. I...
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Autostart Zellij in Nushell
Cool kids multiplex with Zellij. Data engineers shred data with Nushell. Let’s make them work better together. Let’s autostart Zellij when our terminal and shell start. The Zellij documentation provides instructions for making Zellij...
Date Parsing and Arithmetic on macOS
I recently wrote a shell script that required both date parsing and date arithmetic. The pertinent bits for this post are that the script: Seemed simple enough. A little googling and some experimentation gave...
Nushell + fzf — functions for git switch and git branch -d
I’ve recently re-discovered nushell and I’ve fallen hard. I’m committed. I’m stumbling my way through things, of course, but I’ve set my course and am not turning back. Perhaps one day I’ll blog my...
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...
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....
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...
hc: Hex Color Command-Line Tool for OS X
I’ve been working a lot lately with LESS and Bootstrap, and wanted an easier and quicker way to visualize colors and what the various LESS operations do to them. So, I built hc — Hex...