Elijah Wright elijah

Local Habitat Windows Workstation for Mac OS X with Vagrant and VirtualBox

The following document describes how to setup a Mac OS X workstation for developing Habitat Packages for Windows using Vagrant and VirtualBox

Software Tools Prereqs:

Before you begin you should have the following tools installed on your Mac workstation:

Vagrant
VirtualBox
vagrant-reload plugin - Open a terminal and run the command vagrant plugin install vagrant-reload

Exporting your 2FA tokens from Authy to transfer them into another 2FA application

IMPORTANT - Update regarding deprecation of Authy desktop apps

Past August 2024, Authy stopped supported the desktop version of their apps:
See Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August for details.

And indeed, after a while, Authy changed something in their backend which now prevents the old desktop app from logging in. If you are already logged in, then you are in luck, and you can follow the instructions below to export your tokens.

If you are not logged in anymore, but can find a backup of the necessary files, then restore those files, and re-install Authy 2.2.3 following the instructions below, and it should work as expected.

Theming Slack for OSX

So, you love Slack, but you hate applications with large white backgrounds? Why not use Dark Mode!

Unfortunately, Slack does not have a Dark Mode, although it's on their list of possibilities.

But, don't fret - there is a solution! Because the slack native desktop apps are just wrappers around a web app, we can inject our own CSS to customize the application to our liking.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# Fetch secrets for local development from Azure KeyVault
	# and print them to stdout as a bunch of env var exports.
	# These secrets should be added to your local .env file
	# to enable running integration tests locally.
	#
	KEY_VAULT=$1

	function fetch_secret_from_keyvault() {

	# Description: Boxstarter Script
	# Author: Jess Frazelle <[email protected]>
	# Last Updated: 2017-09-11
	#
	# Install boxstarter:
	# . { iwr -useb http://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1 } \| iex; get-boxstarter -Force
	#
	# You might need to set: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
	#
	# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an elevated command-prompt:

	{
	"builders": [{
	"type": "docker",
	"image": "centos"
	}],
	"provisioners" : [
	{
	"type": "shell",
	"inline": ["yum update -y"]
	},

	### Packer

	UF_VERSION="6.5.2-67571ef4b87d-linux-2.6-amd64"
	UF_SHORT_VERSION="6.5.2"
	UF_DOWNLOAD_URL="https://www.splunk.com/bin/splunk/DownloadActivityServlet?architecture=x86_64&platform=linux&version=${UF_SHORT_VERSION}&product=universalforwarder&filename=splunkforwarder-${UF_VERSION}.deb&wget=true"
	UF_DEB_PACKAGE="/tmp/splunkforwarder-${UF_VERSION}.deb"
	UF_DIRECTORY="/opt/splunkforwarder"
	SPLUNK_DIRECTORY="/home/ubuntu/.splunk"

	# Download the Universal Forwarder (UF)

	/*
	After purchasing a humble book bundle, go to your download page for that bundle.
	Open a console window for the page and paste in the below javascript.
	This will download all the books in all the formats available.
	*/
	$('a').each(function(i){
	if (['MOBI', 'PDF', 'EPUB'].indexOf($.trim($(this).text())) >= 0) {
	$('body').append('<iframe id="dl_iframe_'+i+'" style="display:none;">');
	document.getElementById('dl_iframe_'+i).src = $(this).data('web');
	}

	node {
	echo 'Results included as an inline comment exactly how they are returned as of Jenkins 2.121, with $BUILD_NUMBER = 1'
	echo 'No quotes, pipeline command in single quotes'
	sh 'echo $BUILD_NUMBER' // 1
	echo 'Double quotes are silently dropped'
	sh 'echo "$BUILD_NUMBER"' // 1
	echo 'Even escaped with a single backslash they are dropped'
	sh 'echo \"$BUILD_NUMBER\"' // 1
	echo 'Using two backslashes, the quotes are preserved'
	sh 'echo \\"$BUILD_NUMBER\\"' // "1"