Fun with WSL, GitHub CLI and Windows Notifications

Part 2: Using toast for richer desktop notifications

 Posted on May 27, 2021  |  Stuart Leeks

Introduction In the last post we saw how to create a drop-in replacement for notify-send. This allowed us to take a script that used notify-send and run it without modification. In this post, we’ll take a look at how we can update that script to take better advantage of Windows notifications. At the end of the last post, the notification was fairly generic as shown below: In this post, we’ll update the script to indicate whether the run finished successfully or not, change the title to “GitHub”, and include an “Open in Browser” link: [Read More]
wsl  github  tips-and-tricks 

Fun with Git for Windows, SSH Keys and Passphrases

 Posted on June 30, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

Disclaimer: this post is one to file under “things I’m blogging in the hope that I find the answer more quickly next time”. Background I switched to using SSH key auth for GitHub and Azure DevOps Repos a long time ago and never looked back. For a while I was using SSH keys without passphrases but got round to adding passphrases a while back. I set up the Windows OpenSSH Authentication Agent - the service defaults to Disabled so I set it as Automatic start and nudged it to Running. [Read More]
ssh  git  tips-and-tricks 

Working With Multiple Kubernetes Contexts

 Posted on January 24, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

If you’re working with Kubernetes then there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve been working with kubectl! There’s also a pretty good chance that you end up working with more than one cluster context. So, how do you manage multiple contexts? KUBECONFIG One way that you might have encountered is obtaining a kubeconfig file that contains the details of how to connect to a cluster. kubectl allows you to pass a --kubeconfig option to commands to specify which kubeconfig should be used to connect to a cluster to execute the command. [Read More]
kubernetes  kubectl  tips-and-tricks 

Working With Git Rebase in Visual Studio Code

 Posted on January 23, 2020  |  Stuart Leeks

Following the git theme for mini-posts, I thought I’d give git rebase a mention this time. When I first started working with git I found a way to pretend that it was a source control system like any other that I’d used. Eventually, I was working on a pull request for an OSS project and a maintainer asked me to rebase my changes. Now, I’d heard of rebase at that point but I hadn’t used it, so I was a bit daunted. [Read More]
git  vscode  tips-and-tricks