i mesed up my back over the weekend i spent a couple of days on the floor. This was because i messed up my back. This is mostly becuase I have really poor posture. I have had really poor posture for a good 35 years now. It is likley that the poor posture is finally catching up to me. So what do we do when bad things like this happen? We make a whole bunch of changes to things and then revert a number of those changes but hopefully one or two of those changes will stick....

building keyboards good surface mount diodes https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/821-1N4148WRHG

open a finder in the terminal of a mac if you need to open a finder window you can just type open or if you want to open the finder with the folder that you are in as the path you can type open . and like that you have magically opened the folder and you are good to go.

Microware muting Ok fine usually I will talk about tech things and IT things, but this is a quality of life thing. It turns out that you can mute your microwave. While i never thought that this would be a thing, it does make really good sense and yea, that should be a thing. 30 seconds later I googled “mute microwave” and low and behold. whirlpool microwave: keypad mute: press and hold 1 for 3 seconds hear "beep beep" end of cycle mute: pread and hold 2 for 3 seconds hear "beep beep"

rip grep tip I use ripgrep all the time and often times there are little things that can really help you find what you are serarching for. This is one of them. I want to find a string in a specific filename that exists in many folders. Then I want to display those resutls with some context. rg '.wait:' -g '.gitlab-ci.yml' --context 5 The string that I am searching for is ....

player 2(040) has entered the game. During the past 2 years if you had not noticed, there has been a chip shortage. Namely the atmega 32u4 chips that power the elite-c and pro micros microcontrollers that are at the centers of custom keyboards. It just so happened that during this time raspberry pi developed a microcontroller of their own. This is known as the rp2040. rp2040 Why does this matter? Well we can now get the 2040 as a drop in replacement for the pro micros....

We built microservices to leverage scale. As a result those microservices are each in their own repos. We don’t need to get into a discussion about mono repos here, we aren’t using them. The example here is a gitlab pipeline file and we needed to add a new yaml anchor block to use later in the pipeline. We are going to look for something that we know exists, in this case: “....

Github and gitlab both have online text editors. if you are in safari and you have a repo open for either of them. All you need to do is type the period key and they will pop full fledged web editors for you. with github you are actually getting vscode with gitlab you are getting their editor. this makes me miss github for my daily work environment. but i guess there is a gitlab plugin for vscode in the web....

Adding code . to your terminal in order to open vscode. I like to maintain a terminal session running with just about everything that I am working on in it. Usually I work in VIM but lately I have needed to use vscode for a number of things. I like being ale to clone or switch the repo I am working on from the terminal and then open an editor directly from there....

Using repl to debug python. https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/09/16/debugging-in-a-repl-is-fun/ what’s a REPL? REPL stands for “read eval print loop”. A REPL is a program that: reads some input from you like print(f"2 + 2 = {2+2}") (read) evaluates the input (eval) print out the result (print) and then goes back to step 1 (loop) A couple years ago I used pry in ruby/chef a bunch and then I guess I forgot about it. Now this works for python too and it is WAY better than my print statement hell that I usually write....

Diffing with git Diffing with git is hard so I wrote an alias in order to make my life easier. alias git-diff-master='git diff master...`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`' Run that little alias and you are good to go when you need to check what you have changed. bye

Format json in vim If you have jq installed then all you need to do, to pretty print json is. :%!jq '.' Bam pretty json in vim

I am borrowing this from pstadler because it is really good https://github.com/pstadler/keybase-gpg-github/blob/master/README.md Set up Keybase.io, GPG & Git to sign commits on GitHub This is a step-by-step guide on how to create a GPG key on keybase.io, adding it to a local GPG setup and use it with Git and GitHub. Although this guide was written for macOS, most commands should work in other operating systems as well. There’s a video published by Timothy Miller explaining some parts of this guide....

Help! I committed and pushed something dangerous to github This happens we are not perfect and from time to time mistakes are made. Thats ok we can fix it with bfg git add my-bad-file git commit -a -m "im dumb" git push origin master # I did not mean to do that, I did not mean to do that # Lets fix it # i am in the repo folder named my-repo rm my-bad-file git commit -a -m "go away" git push origin master cd ....

pinentry is broken on my mac?! try this first # Kill gpg-agent killall gpg-agent # Run gpg-agent in daemon mode gpg-agent --daemon Universal handoff - clipboard mac/IOS There is a feature in mac land that allows you to share clipboard between phone and computer if they are both on the same wifi along with the same apple account. This can be super useful for a variety of applications. Here's how to turn on Handoff on your devices: On your Mac: Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences, then click General....

AWS cli v2 input prompting Today I learned that there is an argument that you can pass to the aws cli and it will prompt you for the input for the command that you are trying to run. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-parameters-prompting.html If you are using version 2 of the aws cli then just add --cli-auto-prompt to your command and it will make magic. This is good if you don’t recall what you need to have in a command so it will just ask you along the way....

Clojure again Welcome back to my clojure ramblings while I try to understand more. Tonight we are going to pick up where we left off, and that has to do with Vectors. NOTE: I am writing this as a way to digest and understand the book that I am working through entitled. Living Clojure Vectors Vectors can be found because they are wrapped in [] user=> [ :bucket 3 4 :cup ] [:bucket 3 4 :cup] user=> [:thing "other" :mine] [:thing "other" :mine] Vectors are similar to lists we can have a mix of types in them, and some of the same operators can be used on them....

UNI there is a handy little thing written in go that can handle unicode lookups from the terminal. I like all things terminal so here it is. https://github.com/arp242/uni go get arp242.net/uni Which will then allow you to search unicode from the terminal nice and easy uni search unicorn headset control I use an arctis 7 for my work headset, it is pretty nice but since it is USB 2.4ghz it lacks some of the features up bluetooth....

just some thoughts on places to eat in the future There are tons of good places to get bbq in chicago, but here are some top winners https://chicagoculinarykitchen.com/ bbq in the burbs is chicago culinary kitchen located at 773 N. Quentin Road Palatine, IL Food truck / small shop that makes meat and then closes up shop when they run out of it.

Fun with terraform Today there was a fun problem. We needed to have terraform interrogate the current state and then make a decision based on the current state. The use case specifically was the number of service instances on an ECS cluster. If every time a deployment were to happen we would reset the desired count back to the original, then we could lose track of the current number of instances that happened as a result of scaling actions taken based on the current load....