Things I've learned, and need to remember - so future me has a chance of using the knowledge
Things I’ve learned, and need to remember - so future me has a chance of using the knowledge.
Warning: These notes are mine, collected over time. Just because I’ve said it here, doesn’t mean it’s the absolute best practice. It worked for me, it might work for you.
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When a CA has its certificates removed from public trust (as happened today), applications don’t always know immediately. TLDR Just set …
It’s sometimes needed to delete calendar events owned by someone else, for example if they’ve left the organisation. Note This only works …
When looking through a sea of stats, it’s hard to find which metrics are consuming the most data (especially when billed by series). With a list …
When rebasing commits, it’s common that the author date gets reset (since you’re re-authoring the commit). Simon Willison’s solution …
IAM policies can have a Condition, which must pass for the policy to apply. This can be used to require HTTPS and/or the TLS version: { …
Sometimes, you only have access to the aws CLI, and need to generate presigned URLs to S3 objects. The aws s3 presign command will do this, creating …
The official AWS CLI installation steps require downloading and running a script to install the CLI. This download contains the CLI itself, and the …
The ability to create personal access tokens without expiry was deprecated in GitLab 15.4 and removed in GitLab 16.0. For security reasons, expiring …
Optimising images is a fairly well understood problem, with lots of different solutions and tools. Images can be resized, their pixels grouped, or …
If everything you run is already in Heroku, it can be useful to run even simple scheduled tasks there too, to save integrating and running services on …