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Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

To setup your computer to work with *.dev domains, e.g. project.dev, awesome.dev and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.

Requirements

• Homebrew
• Mountain Lion -> High Sierra

Install

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I need a way to get a list of plugins so that I can use them with docker jenkins in the format <plugin>: <version>

1. get the jenkins cli.

The jenkins CLI will allow us to interact with our jenkins server from the command line. We can get it with a simple curl call.

curl 'localhost:8080/jnlpJars/jenkins-cli.jar' > jenkins-cli.jar

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Git

Global Settings

• Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278
• Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/
• Interactive Beginners Tutorial: http://try.github.io/
• Git Cheatsheet by GitHub: https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/

Reminder

Press minus + shift + s and return to chop/fold long lines!

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vs Questions

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1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804115 (rebase vs merge).
2. https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing (rebase vs merge)
3. https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/undoing-changes/ (reset vs checkout vs revert)
4. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2221658 (HEAD^ vs HEAD~) (See git rev-parse)
5. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292357 (pull vs fetch)
6. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39651 (stash vs branch)
7. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8358035 (reset vs checkout vs revert)

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#!/bin/bash
DRY_RUN=1
if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
  DRY_RUN="$1"
fi
MAX_VERSION=2
if [ "$2" != "" ]; then
  MAX_VERSION="$2"
fi

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Mac OSX Spotlight Enhancement

Add this to Info.plist in /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter/Contents/ and Spotlight will search for source code files.

<string>public.c-header</string>
<string>public.c-plus-plus-header</string>
<string>public.c-source</string>
<string>public.objective-c-source</string>
public.c-plus-plus-source

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==========================================          ==========================================
             TMUX COMMAND                                        WINDOW (TAB)
==========================================          ==========================================

List    tmux ls                                     List         ^b w
New          new -s <session>                       Create       ^b c
Attach       att -t <session>                       Rename       ^b , <name>
Rename       rename-session -t <old> <new>          Last         ^b l               (lower-L)
Kill         kill-session -t <session>              Close        ^b &

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How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

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How to generate a self-signed SAN SSL/TLS certificate using openssl

Generating a self-signed certificate is a common taks and the command to generate one with openssl is well known and well documented. Generating a certificate that includes subjectAltName is not so straght forward however. The following example demonstrates how to generate a SAN certificate without making a permanent change to the openssl configuration.

Generate a list of all required DNS names, (Note: CN will be discarded).

$ export SAN="DNS:www.domain.localdomain,DNS:domain.localdomain"

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Installing Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, Hyper, ZSH, Node.js and VSCode extensions

Requirements

• Windows 10 Build 18917+ (only as Windows Insider 09/2019)

Steps