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Getting GCP access token from a service account key

Use your service account's key JSON file to get an access token to call Google APIs.

Good for seeing how things work, including the creation of JWT token.

To create a JWT token, you can replace create-jwt-token.sh script with tools like step.

If you just want to get an access token for a service account,

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Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

(Related blog post)

Simply put, destructuring in Clojure is a way extract values from a datastructure and bind them to symbols, without having to explicitly traverse the datstructure. It allows for elegant and concise Clojure code.

Vectors and Sequences

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Chaining promises

Chaining promises in ClojureScript is best done using the thread-first macro, ->. Here's an example of using the fetch API:

(-> (js/fetch "/data")
    (.then (fn [r]
             (when-not (.-ok r)
               (throw (js/Error. "Could not fetch /data")))
             (.json r)))

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Setup

Add this to your .profile, .bashrc, .zshrc...

decode_base64_url() {
  local len=$((${#1} % 4))
  local result="$1"
  if [ $len -eq 2 ]; then result="$1"'=='
  elif [ $len -eq 3 ]; then result="$1"'=' 
  fi
 echo "$result" | tr '_-' '/+' | openssl enc -d -base64