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Quick Tip: Locate Tags in Git with a Specific Commit
Need to find which tags in your project contain a specific commit ID? I recently need to do this to find out when a specific bug fix (commit ID: abc123) was released in a project. Simply enter: Git will then list all the tags that include the bug fix, helping you identify the release times…
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Quick Tutorial: How to Manually Test an AWS CloudWatch Alarm Without Triggering It
At times, you may have set up a CloudWatch alarm that you don’t want to trigger, but you still need to ensure that the actions tied to it function correctly. This tutorial will guide you through a simple command to test your CloudWatch alarm manually without actually setting it off. Step-by-Step:
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When “rm *” doesn’t work
We’ve all deleted files in a folder using rm *. But have you ever had it not work you might have come across an error like this: What’s happening here? Well, this is a consequence of the Linux kernel’s limitation on the number of arguments that can be passed to a command via the exec…
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Initial Thoughts On Arc Browser
I’m coming from Firefox as my default browser. What I like: What I don’t like:
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Optimizing Permission Rewriting in Ansible
I was recently working on speeding up an Ansible playbook and found this task that was running slowly. This task runs the find command for all files in a specific directory and recursively executes the chmod command on them. The issue is with a directory thousands of files we end up executing thousands of chmod…
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A Dark Sky Replacement – MerrySky
With Apple killing off Dark Sky, I was looking for a replacement and happened across Mary sky. It seems like a pretty darn good replacement for dark sky with an almost clone-like interface. The app is powered by the pirate weather API, so the data source is a bit different than dark skies homegrown weather…
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Adding a Hotkey Pulldown Terminal On My Mac
I’ve had issues effectively managing a large number of terminal windows on my Mac in the past and I’ve finally arrived at an effective solution. The solution does require switching to iTerm2. Once I had iTerm2 setup. Here’s how I configured things for myself. Under Preferences > Keys > Hotkey I created a new HotKey…
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Jack’s kinda right?
Jack Dorsey just wrote up a little piece on where he sees the future of content on the web going. I saw a few hot takes that seemed like they might be taking things out of context. Which I think they kind of were. So, go read it for yourself. This is the part that…
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Moving Back To WordPress From Hugo – Performance
I was a bit worried that in moving this blog from Hugo hosted on Render.com I would suffer a performance drop. The short answer is nope. I am using a linode $5 a month server with the litespeed web server and MySQL. The only caching tool I am using is the Litespeed WordPress addon. I…
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My Weekly Listening
I thought it would be fun to share the podcasts that I currently listen to almost every episode of. These have a wide range of topics including #skiing #mtb #linux #dev #tech etc. I find that I eventually grow out of podcasts and into new ones so I’m sure this list will change over time.…
