ConfigMaps - Setting ConfigMaps from the oc CLI
While preparing for EX280 I learned a lot about using the CLI to configure Openshift resources. It’s always great learning to configure this stuff from the CLI because it gives you so much power and (In my opinion) a lot more understanding about how things work because you need to viluazie what you are doing in your head. Also: “Writing is think...
Installing vim-plug on macOS
vim-plug is a VIM plug-in manager to install themes and other plug-ins in VIM. It’s the most populair one at the moment.
Installation
To install vim-plug you can go over to https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug and run the following command:
$ curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-p...
Let's get fuzzys
Fuzzy search is a great and easy way to find (back) stuff. You can use fzf on macOS and Linux to replace bash/zsh bck-i-search, make find obsolete and even get a quick way to preview files on the command line.
Installing on macOS
We can install fzfusing brew:
brew install fzf
Enable integration
After installation (and a reload of our shell w...
Quick open Things3 with Alfred
In my daily workflow I have found that when using different tools and systems with each other removing friction can be key. This is not a original insight or even a leap of the imagination but I do find myself eliminating friction in workflows in new ways. One of those ways I recently Implemented is to use Alfred on the Mac to quickly jump to li...
Using netcat to replace telnet
Any longtime computer user might be familiarity with the (ab)use of the telnet command to check connections and open ports. It is certainly still the first program that pops in to my mind when I want to check a network adres or port. But telnet was removed from Windows a long time ago and should not be installed on any *nix system. Luckily there...
How to customize the appearance of tags in Obsidian
In this note I wil show and tell how to change the appearance of certain Tag’s based on the content of the Tag using CSS
Customizing
Now you can create custom tag’s that match on you existing tag’s. I’m using a simple evergreen system to show the status of my notes. In this instance I’m going to map the following tag’s:
#Evergreen/Seedling...
Using AppleScript to quick add Things3 to Fantastical3
Warning: Sadly this no longer works from the Things menu bar due to sandboxing. You can still run this script outside of Things, and it will work just the same.
Calendar blocking (the process of marking of pieces of time in your calendar to work on a given task) can be a real productivity booster. Not only does it help you in planning out your ...
Using Alfred and qlmarkdown to Quicklook .md files in macOS
I have been using Alfred more and more during the past months and I’ve been looking for a quick way to view little snippets of information with it. I use a few ‘cheat sheets’ for commands and application I use where I’m not always sure of the right command or syntax.
Cheat sheets
I have been creating very simple .md markdown sheets for a few co...
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