Notes

I often find myself wanting a simple copy button in my web projects.

This is the recipe I build them from using clipboard.js and a couple lines of JavaScript.

Sometimes, when working with externally generated content you might want to make links clickable when rendering it in the client.

This is a snippet to do just that.

Sometimes, mostly when throwing together a quick idea or MVP, it can be useful to just register all models with the admin and leave proper customization for later.

How to add things to a list using kustomize. This is useful for example when you need to patch additional environment variables into a pod.

I often whish to search through large bodies of text, like my knowledge base or source code repositories, from the command line.

I use fuz for this and I’m quite happy with it.

I also have it aliased to my knowledge base folder for even easier searching.

alias search="fuz -p /path/to/knowledge-base/"

Hugo is my favorite tool for publishing markdown to the internet, but sometimes I want to do something a little bit more advanced with my posts.

With this shortcode I can always just fall back to plain old HTML.

The HTML details element is a nice way to create natively expandable content with wide browser support.

Cowsay is one of those packages you just end up installing randomly on just about any client over time.

And if your using ansible you may be in for a little surprise:

Django’s CSRF protection is usually a great thing, but when building (API) endpoints meant to be accessed by scripts/third parties it gets in the way of that.

This is how to disable it:

For a class based view

from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt

@method_decorator(csrf_exempt, name='dispatch')
class MyView(View):
    pass

For a function based view

from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt

@csrf_exempt
def my_view(request):
    pass

Since early 2019 the sprig library used by helm provides a concat function that does exactly this.

Go check out their website, it’s incredibly good at explaining itself.

To me, a backend heavy developer, HTMX is the frontend framework I like to use because:

• It does not feel like a JavaScript framework at all, but more like an extension of the HTTP/HTML model
• It allows me to write interfaces that feel responsive and modern to users while still doing all the heavy lifting in my backend with the tools I’m used to
• It works with my mental model, which is heavily based on the request-response cycle

Think before you enable this, it could be a security risk

• Shutdown Mac
• Press and hold the power button until the Recovery Mode menu appears
• Select Options, then click Continue
• From the Utilities menu select Startup Security Utility
• Select your startup disk and click Security Policy
  • Choose Reduced Security
  • Check the option Allow user management of kernel extensions from identified developers

The 1Password CLI op works either in connection with a client app, like on the Mac, or standalone, useful on a server.

# Login
eval $(op signin)

# Get favorites
op item list --vault "Private" --favorite

# Get a specific item
op item get <ID>

# !! Important: Sign out at the end
op signout

Some helper functions

Helpers to more easily work with the op cli.

1login() {
    eval $(op signin)
}

alias 1signout="op signout"

1search() {
    term=$1
    if [ -n "$2" ]
    then
      vault="$2"
    else
      vault="Private"
    fi
    echo "Searching for '$term' in vaut '$vault'"
    op item list --vault "$vault" --long | grep "$term" --ignore-case
}

1get() {
    op item get $*
}

Things I do to be a good code reviewee.