This is a simple script that takes multiple kube config files and deeply merges them into one.
[Read More]CLI fuzzy search
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/"
My Publishing Pipeline
I write an extensive personal knowledge base using markdown, code-server and a variety of other tools. Originally, in 2021, I wanted to have something like Obsidian Publish but self-hosted, so I created it.
Over time my knowledge base evolved more into a second brain, tracking not only my technical notes and journal, but also things like recipes and hikes. With this my publishing pipeline, and the script at it’s core, extended in a multitude of ways.
[Read More]Simple Self Organization
This is a guide to a simple self organization/task management system I built for myself over the years.
From time to time I showed it to someone and they got some benefits from it, most adapted it to better fit their needs down the line, which is exactly what you should do with any kind of personal task management in my opinion.
[Read More]Hack things together
A little scripting never hurt anybody
Sometimes you have to do a specific task and you are fully capable of doing it manually, however those tasks are also great to flex your muscles and hack something together.
They can be an excellent tool to sharpen your skills with the tools you use regularly, and improve your quick prototyping skills.
In addition, with a couple of iterations, again sharpening an important skill, you could afterwards create a more general purpose tool from a hacky script.
[Read More]DigitalOcean CLI Cheat Sheet
My thoughts on AI in blogging
Given the recent rise in text-based language models, sometimes called AI tools, I wanted to share my thoughts and experiences in using them, especially in the context of blogging.
[Read More]My Tools
Tools I use and recommend.
carrd.co
Extremely simple and affordable website publishing, I use it for landing pages and quick MVPs
DigitalOcean
My first choice for personal servers and simple MVP deployments with their App Platform
GitLab.com
My go-to git-server and allrounder CI/CD, both on premise in the enterprise and in the cloud for my own projects
PythonAnywhere
They provide a great service, best described as a PHP-webspace, but for Python
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Self-hosted notifications
Running any kind of personal infrastructure sometimes requires your attention based on certain events or failure states, no matter how much you automate tasks.
Over the years I have used E-Mail, Telegram bots and a variety of other tools for this purpose. However all of them have the drawback that they mix with other kinds of information and are not easilly usable in scripts.
[Read More]Simple git changelog
A simple changelog system on top of git commit messages.
The main idea is to generate “release notes” from a diff in commits before a release. It can easily be run manually or as part of a merge/pull CI pipeline.
In this case it looks for commit messages starting with one of these [ADD], [REMOVE], [INFO] and just outputs those, but those patters can be adjusted to fit any existing commit schema.
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Publish Parts Of Obsidian To My Personal Site
The idea at the start was simple. Do something like Obsidian Publish , so read frontmatter and if it contains published: True put it up on a website to view.
Info
I have since rewritten and updated this tool: New version
The Basics I started with taking a look at different static site generators but after a bit of testing I ended up back at Hugo, which I already use for ps1.
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curl: Modify DNS Resolution
You can intercept normal name resolution in curl with the --resolve parameter allowing you to do things like talk to a specific site of a DNS load-balanced setup or talk to a new deployment not yet made productive.
You can specify the resolve option multiple times so you can even catch redirects and move them to where you want as well.
It’s important to note that this intercept does only work on the ports you specify in the entries.
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GitLab Merge Request from the CLI
Speed up your work with git by automatically creating Merge Requests for your git push
The Problem You want to push a branch to GitLab and automatically create a Merge Request (MR) for it.
There are effectively three scenarios this can cover:
Create a MR in draft state with a custom title Create a MR Create a MR and automatically merge if CI/CD pipeline succeeds Manually this is quite the process:
Push branch to origin Copy link to create a MR Open the link, change fields to represent wanted state and submit The Solution GitLab offers push options1 that allow us to instruct it to do more than just plain git push.
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Super-Charged Cmdlet Aliases
It works like magic, but it works - Bring your aliasing to a whole other level!
Backstory I recently wrote a post about PowerShell Aliasing for the folks over at ScriptRunner.
The one issue I had while researching for this post was this:
You can not create a alias for a function and overwrite one of it’s parameters at the same time while keeping nice features like tab-complete.
For a concrete example of this visit please look at the original post.
At the end of the post I asked if anyone had a solution to this problem - and the internet delivered!
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