All posts tagged "tools"
Running Kafka locally in Kubernetes using Minikube
- Author: Stephen Ball
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Let's run Kafka in Kubernetes using Minikube and then connect to a topic using kcat running on our host machine.
Add helix shortcuts - sdball/dotfiles
- Author: Stephen Ball
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Commit 3558be2 from github.com/sdball/dotfiles
Using git-blog
- Author: Stephen Ball
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How I'm turning Git commits into blog posts with some custom command line tooling.
swapcase with the tr command
- Author: Stephen Ball
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- Permalink: /blog/swapcase-with-the-tr-command
A light introduction to the tr command and using character classes.
See where vim settings came from
- Author: Stephen Ball
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- Permalink: /blog/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
- Author: Stephen Ball
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Taking a script and wrapping it up into a Docker image that can easily run anywhere!
Finding leap years with the cal command
- Author: Stephen Ball
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Using the cal command to learn some command line mechanics.
The Fastest Possible Tests
- Author: Stephen Ball
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How fast could programming tests actually be?
Choose Generic Tools
- Author: Stephen Ball
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Don't create all of your tools from scratch.
Use tldr for command line examples
- Author: Stephen Ball
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- Permalink: /blog/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
- Author: Stephen Ball
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jq is not only a powerful JSON command line parser, it's a full featured programming language
Command line tools - jq
- Author: Stephen Ball
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- Permalink: /blog/command-line-tools-jq
jq is awesome
Let's write a shell script
- Author: Stephen Ball
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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
- Author: Stephen Ball
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I've written a gem, Hwacha, that wraps Typhoeus for fast, easy, and powerful URL checking.
Deliberate Git
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- Author: Stephen Ball
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Git commits are messages to the future. This is how to deliberately make them useful.
Customize Your IRB
- Author: Stephen Ball
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How to customize your local Ruby REPL to be a more effective tool.
Gem Spotlight: interactive_editor
- Author: Stephen Ball
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Taking a look at the interactive_editor gem and its capabilities.
How to use bundler instead of rvm gemsets
- Author: Stephen Ball
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No need to manage gemset environments per project!