Using 1Password to store API keys ...
Following on from my earlier post: -Wow, why have I not been using 1Password for my SSH keys before today ? I've got a little further, with various API keys now stored in my 1Password vaultThis is far...
View ArticleOn the subject of aliases ...
I'm a super-massive fan of time/labour saving devices, and that goes for command-line tips n' tricks to save me: -(a) typing more stuff(b) looking in my notes to remember what I need, in order to type...
View ArticlemacOS to macOS File Sharing - Don't work, try The IT Crowd
I use File Sharing between two Macs on the same network, both running the latest macOS 13.4 Ventura.For some strange reason I wasn't able to access one Mac - a Mini - from the other - a MacBook Pro.As...
View ArticleWhy I can't install jq on Ubuntu 20.04
A friend asked me why they were unable to install jq onto their Ubuntu 20.04 Linux box - which seems like a perfectly reasonable to do / ask. So I tried ... And failed ... lsb_release -a No LSB...
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More on macOS SMB sharing
As a follow-up to an earlier post: -macOS to macOS File Sharing - Don't work, try The IT CrowdI hit this problem again and referred back to my post, and also to Dan's post: -Solving a file sharing...
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Getting started with Python in Jupyter Notebooks
So, as we get ready to start a new year, I'm tinkering with a bunch of new ( to me ) tech toys, including wrangling Python dependencies.Having spent much of of the past year or so using pip and pyenv...
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Visual Studio Code - Wow 🙀
Why did I not know that I can merely hit [cmd] [p] to bring up a search box allowing me to search my project e.g. a repo cloned from GitHub etc. for a file name ?How long have I spent manually...
View ArticleLest I forget - how to install pip on Ubuntu
I seem to forget to remember this almost monthly, every time I spin up a new Ubuntu VMThis time around, it's Ubuntu 22.04 and I'm trying to install python3-pip ( aka pip3 or just pip )apt-get install...
View ArticleNote to self - use kubectl to query images in a pod or deployment
In both cases, we use JSON ...For a deployment, we can do this: -kubectl get deployment foobar --namespace snafu --output jsonpath="{..image}"which returns the image name(s) on the same lineOr we can...
View ArticleReminder - installing podman and skopeo on Ubuntu 22.04
This follows on from: -Lest I forget - how to install pip on UbuntuI had reason to install podman and skopeo on an Ubuntu box: -lsb_release -aNo LSB modules are available.Distributor...
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