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:
Disclaimer: this post is one to file under “things I’m blogging in the hope that I find the answer more quickly next time”.
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. (For more information, see the docs on installing Windows OpenSSH)
[Read More]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?
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. E.g. kubectl get pods --kubeconfig=/path/to/kubeconfig.
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. So this post has a few tips that I wish I’d known at that point. By way of encouragement, I’ll add that getting familiar with git rebase is a huge part of the reason that I love git and has improved my developer workflow.
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