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Creating my EX280 page on Jekyll

As you might have notices I use Jekyll for this blog hosted on GitHub. I might do a post later on how I use it and how I set it up. For now, all you need to know is that Jekyll turns .md(markdown) file in to a blog. This happens using GitHub actions and builds my blog from source when I commit to main. Jekyll support some dynamic code to genera...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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