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Running Kafka locally in Kubernetes using Minikube

Let's run Kafka in Kubernetes using Minikube and then connect to a topic using kcat running on our host machine.

Add git-blog - sdball/dotfiles

Commit e2f73fe from github.com/sdball/dotfiles

Add helix shortcuts - sdball/dotfiles

Commit 3558be2 from github.com/sdball/dotfiles

Using git-blog

How I'm turning Git commits into blog posts with some custom command line tooling.

swapcase with the tr command

A light introduction to the tr command and using character classes.

See where vim settings came from

How to ask vim to tell where a setting originated e.g. "Last set from ~/.vim/ftplugin/go.vim line 1"

From awk to a Dockerized Ruby Script

Taking a script and wrapping it up into a Docker image that can easily run anywhere!

Finding leap years with the cal command

Using the cal command to learn some command line mechanics.

The Fastest Possible Tests

How fast could programming tests actually be?

Choose Generic Tools

Don't create all of your tools from scratch.

Use tldr for command line examples

What is tldr? Why it's an easy way to quickly get examples for common CLI commands!

Programming with jq

jq is not only a powerful JSON command line parser, it's a full featured programming language

Command line tools - jq

jq is awesome

Let's write a shell script

In which we walk through writing a simple shell script and do some shenanigans with the declared executable.

Let's Use Hwacha to Scan URLs

I've written a gem, Hwacha, that wraps Typhoeus for fast, easy, and powerful URL checking.

Deliberate Git

Git commits are messages to the future. This is how to deliberately make them useful.

Customize Your IRB

How to customize your local Ruby REPL to be a more effective tool.

Gem Spotlight: interactive_editor

Taking a look at the interactive_editor gem and its capabilities.

How to use bundler instead of rvm gemsets

No need to manage gemset environments per project!