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Today is Thursday, April the 11, 2024 and today I learned …

• It’s possible to write multiline RUN commands using heredoc syntax

Today is Tuesday, April the 09, 2024 and today I learned …

• That you can fake running on the main branch in GitLab CI/CD by setting CI_COMMIT_BRANCH
• Arq backup to NAS requires a correct UNC path

Today is Monday, April the 08, 2024 and today I learned …

• How to view DICOM medical imaging files in macOS
• How to export local environment modifications in Nushell
• That it’s possible to refactor rule conditions in GitLab CI/CD using the custom !reference tag

In my neverending quest for the perfect development set-up, I’ve recently tried a couple of improvements for my hitherto standard command line tooling (ZSH + iTerm2) over the holidays. While ZSH has—for me—stood the test of time (and I don’t feel the need to try out another shell yet), there is, in my opinion, always room for improvement on the terminal emulator side. So, here’s a quick guide on how to use my new weapon of choice, Alacritty.

Brave is a free, open-source, Chromium-based web browser that has a strong focus on privacy. Brave also has the option to run progressive web apps (PWA) as standalone applications. This may be useful if you prefer to run some apps in the browser, but still want to have the benefit of launching and switching to the app like a fully native app. Some websites unfortunately don’t declare themselves properly as progressive web applications or simply are not PWA-enabled yet. Brave has the nice feature that in spite of this, you can install websites like these as a PWA. The workflow to do this is a bit hidden in plain sight, however, so here’s a quick tutorial on how to do it.

If you work in a corporate environment and have a Mac as your work machine, chances are that your IT department installed SAP’s clever Privileges app to limit the use of admin rights. Privileges essentially adds your current user to the admin group for a limited amount of time so that you can obtain elevated privileges whenever needed but do not overuse them. Convenient as Privileges may be, however, I sometimes get annoyed by having to use the GUI over and over to get admin privileges multiple times a day. Thankfully, the installation of the GUI app also comes with the PrivilegesCLI command line application.

The Kubernetes API is changing all the time. With these changes come deprecations and eventual removals of parts of the API. To be able to keep an up-to-date Kubernetes cluster version, we have to identify deprecated APIs and update them. This may become tedious in larger clusters with hundreds of resources but tools like pluto can help.

I published another article on Weeklyjs.io.

I published my article on GitLab runner cleanup with pre-build scripts on Dev.to.