Posts

• One-liner to extract a Kubernetes secret with kubectl

• Today I Learned: 20/04/2025 - pymongo insert operation modifies the input

• Actually Atlassian, I'm capable of doing my job. Sod off.

• Getting URNs of Pulumi resources

• Today I Learned: 18/10/2024 - Getting more info on AWS configuration errors via the browser dev tools

• A possible (and simple) solution if Pulumi can't find existing AWS resources

• An excellent Mastodon thread of advice to new developers

• Connecting to an older MSSQL Server via ODBC on Ubuntu 22.04

• Building an AWS Lambda layer with non-pure Python modules

• Today I Learned: 19/11/2023 - Piping to the clipboard on a linux system

• Today I Learned: 12/09/2023 - Extracting a FastAPI JSON payload from an AWS SQS or SNS->SQS message triggering an AWS Lambda

• Changing from writing files to subdirectories on a local filesystem to an S3 bucket with a few lines of code

• A somewhat convoluted solution to listening to podcasts on my phone

• A Full Pun(net) of Avocados

• This decade's Emacs appreciation post

• Accessing protected Pulumi outputs with a PGP key

• 2023 Reply to the Toast to Lions Clubs International

• Today I Learned: 20/04/2023 - using NTLM on Ubuntu 22.04 with pywinrm

• Today I Learned: 12/04/2023 - Using a newer poetry (in 2023) with pypiserver

• Today I Learned: 09/04/2023 - Preventing upload to PyPI with the "Private" trove classifier

• Dynamically serving REST endpoints for MSSQL stored procedures with FastAPI

• A few gmail tips

• Today I Learned: 08/12/2022 - /dev/tty errors using scp in Docker

• Software developers are not interchangeable

• Uploading a directory tree to AWS S3 in a few lines of Python

• Today I Learned: 29/11/2022 - Setting bash to add a trailing slash when autocompleting symlinked directory names

• Some brief tips on public speaking

• Today I Learned: 27/06/2022 - microphone echo-cancellation on Ubuntu/Pop OS 21.10

• In praise of rich, rich-cli and Textual

• Today I Learned: 26/05/2022 - Deleting a large set of directories for a given year

• Today I Learned: 14/01/2022 - SMTP settings for a custom domain Office 365 Exchange installation

• Today I Learned: 29/11/2021 - A possible solution to problems connecting to an older MSSQL server via ODBC on Ubuntu 21.04

• Today I Learned: 23/11/2021 - Copying in-use Docker volume files across hosts

• Today I Learned: 03/11/2021 - Modifying all the files in subdirectories with a common element in their name

• Preventing MS Teams from invoking the calling tone or worse when resuming media playback

• Today I Learned: 10/10/2021 - Getting a list of video names from a YouTube playlist

• Today I Learned: 28/09/2021 - HTMX and Tailwind in Flask

• Today I Learned: 25/09/2021 - Using Powershell Active Directory commands on a remote host via WinRM

• Today I Learned: 25/09/2021 - Extracting the first page of a PDF as an image

• Today I Learned: 21/09/2021 - Windows internet settings for an internal network with fully qualified domain names

• Today I Learned: 17/09/2021 - Logging into and pulling from Gitlab Container Registry

• Today I Learned: 17/09/2021 - Large scale text replacement in a running Docker container

• In search of a better way to extract project details from a pyproject.toml file

• Unsolicited advice from a not-so-new developer: Your predecessors weren't idiots

• Tagging Docker images with versions of the software in the image

• C code that could get you fired

• Wherein 2 is shown to be equal to 1

• C code you should never use in production

• How to fix the “loud channel” problem on your DSTV decoder

• Nothing Else Matters but a good pun

• The atmosphere was electric!

• A few nifty emacs features

• Next in the series of plaintive Delphi cries, one to (some of) the users of Delphi

• Yet another post from someone admiring an Emacs feature

• Jabber: the IM of choice of 9/10 evil maniacal geniuses

• A plaintive cry to the developers of Delphi 7

• Dragged in by Boris the (web)Spider