I just read that it was 40 years ago today that the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster took place 46,000ft over the Atlantic Ocean, after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Today I released a bash script that goes through all the S3 buckets in an AWS region and configures it for cross-region replication.
Leave a CommentFor decades now, I’ve used spreadsheets to help build SQL statements instead of using import tools in SQL desktop apps.
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1 CommentThis week we said farewell to Lola, our little alien tuxedo cat.
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Leave a CommentToday I learned about the history command in bash. In particular, a keyboard shortcut (!!) to execute the previous command.
Leave a CommentThis past week was the 2nd edition of WordCamp Canada (affectionately known by the hashtag #WCEH on “the socials”). Organizing It was my honour last…
3 CommentsThe bash `type` command – showing you how a command would be executed. Wish I knew about this 20 years ago….
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