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Sometimes, you just need a very simple flag for enabled or disabled, or perhaps just a resource to deploy if var.stage == "qa". This works well for a single resource as well as collections if you provide the splat syntax.


resource "aws_ssm_association" "something_i_need_in_testing_only" {
   count = var.stage == "qa" ? 1 : 0
   name = var.name
}
tech development microblog terraform 

It should be easy to pick a default program to open a file. On macOS, I was surprised at how poor the design was. Seriously, how is this intuitive? Open With > Set this as default. Apparently this only set it for an individual file. This means, every different csv file required me to do this again.

Instead, I had to Get Info > Unlock settings and then choose the default Open With setting, and further select Use this application to open all documents like this.

I enjoy most of my development experience with macOS.

Don’t try and tell me that it is the pinnacle of usability though, some of this stuff is just quirky and over complicated. In what world, should my default behavior be set on a specific file and not the the file type?

tech development macOS 

Day 1 of 100

progress

  • Cloned learning-go-with-tests to ensure a nice structured start, even though I’ve already done hello-world
  • Setup fresh gotools updates - Ran golangci-lint through docker to ensure improved linting options ready for further tests
  • Fixed default debug template in vscode to use workspacefolder instead of file directory. Strange that it defaulted to the wrong path.
tech development 100-days-of-code golang 

PowerShell has some functionality that can help in pre-processing data by grouping and aggregating. If you are using ImportExcel this might be useful to pre-aggregate the results prior to an Excel workbook. If you are working with PowerShell and needing to do some quick measurement of objects, maybe this will be useful.

tech development powershell 

Windows users, nice little win for making the great git-town tool even more accessible. 🎉

  • install scoop: iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
  • scoop install git-town

This is one of my favorite tools for git workflow. If you use GitHub flow to keep a simple workflow, it’s a life saver.

For example, on a branch and need to start a new bit of work to keep your commits atomic? switch to master > stash pending work > pull latest with rebase > create new branch > push branch to remote OR git town hack feat/tacos. Need to squash commits and ship to master? git town ship What about prune all those remote branches that have been merged? git town prune-branches This is one of my favorite git productivity tools (and it’s written in Go 👍 so cross platform and fast)

tech development git golang 

Visual Studio Code has a pretty great way to browse through themes by just selecting installed themes and using arrow keys to preview without apply. However, browsing those themes isn’t quite so good, as you need to install to see the changes.

Ran across [Vscode Themes](https://vscodethemes.com/ https://bit.ly/2NHNsMW “Vscode Themes”) which provides a really nice experience if you feel like changing things up on your editor.

til tech visual-studio-code 

After using Windows versions of launchers that tried to emulate Alfred, I finally took the plunge and bought Alfred’s Powerpack. The buyer remorse of paying > $60 on a “shortcut” app hasn’t really set in as I’m seeing such a wealth of great features that I think the gains as a developer and shortcut aficionado will be well worth the cost in my workflow. So far, highly recommend. The best part for me is the easy plugging in of bash/pwsh scripts to execute on demand for quick productivity tasks without having to navigate and open it up in the terminal.

Alfred Workflows

tech macOS alfred 

Here’s a cool way to visualize runspaces and how they work asynchronously.

$IndentLevel = 2
Get-Random; @(1..100) | ForEach-Object -Parallel { 
    $i = $_
    Start-Sleep -Milliseconds (Get-Random -Minimum 100 -Maximum 1500)
    "{0,$($i * $using:IndentLevel)}" -f $i | Write-Host
}

The random delay can help show how some tasks finish out of order. For example, running that might result in this in the console:

       4
 1
     3
   2
             7
         5
                 9
           6
                  10
               8
tech powershell snippets 

Set an environment variable export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 to enable a much cleaner Dockerfile output when you don’t need verbose debug level information. Reference: Buildkit

til tech docker 

brew install micro resulted in my finding what I think will be my new go to cli editor. Very impressed so far. I’ve got too many things to learn to be fluent in vim, and this cross platform cli tool might be my new best friend for more command line-fu. Micro

til tech cool-tools 
  • add dev container configuration for Go project in Visual Studio code
  • Added docker compose file
  • Add SQL Server to compose as another service.
  • docker-compose up -d
  • Attach to running container in VSCode
  • Magic ⚡

Now I can open Visual Studio Code and run a go project against SQL Server, and tear it all down as I want. Gonna definitely blog on this, as it’s super cool to see this work so well.

While Docker has a steep learning curve, being able to have a full clean dev test environment with SQL Server in a local container and another Ubuntu container to run Go projects in absolutely amazing, not to mention working “inside it” with Remote Workspaces extension from Microsoft.

til tech golang docker sql-server 

Migrating from Windows 10 to macOS for professional use this week. So far the most painful things have been:

  • Pretty rough experience getting displaylink to work, definitely not as plug-and-play as Windows.
  • Shortcuts! I’m a serious shortcut fanatic. The difference in control/command/alt usage on on a mac is painful to my muscle memory and coding flow. Trying to not remap to windows based keys, but it’s been hard.
  • Window management. I’ve used divvy and tried some other’s, but seriously, the lack of window snapping and aero peak is pretty glaring as a new user.

Other than that, so far have most things up and running, and forced myself to do it through Ansible to learn something new. I now know I could setup my macbook 90% of the way in minutes with Ansible, so that’s a win!

tech ansible macOS apple