Good News / Bad News:
Good news: it looks like AWS are now including Gelber Sack recycling dates in their ICAL (Google Calendar, Apple Calendar) exports of rubbish collection data.
Bad news: I couldn’t find a form with which to …
Running VisualVM on MacOS
As of writing, VisualVM 1.4.2 is the newest version of VVM available. This doesn’t currently run against Java 12, and will bomb with an error dialogue if you try.
If you’ve installed Java 12 on Mac, it will be the …
Tracking Apple Hardware Orders with option “Deliver to Store”
Apple hardware orders for pickup at an Apple Store don’t get detailed shipping information other than an expected arrival date at the store itself.
Apple do use UPS (presumably among others) to ship from manufacturing to stores, so the tracking …
Google Calendar Sync for IOS Devices
It always takes me ages to figure out the right incantation to give to Google to find this:
Multitail – Keyboard Commands
Caution: Unsupported. It looks like Multitail, while still available in many distributions, is no longer supported by its author.
The excellent Multitail can watch (and highlight, and search, etc.etc.) several files at once. It’s a really useful tool for …
AWS Kinesis – Shard Splitting – Calculate Fulcrum
When you split a shard in Kinesis, the AWS CLI tool wants to know where you want the hash key fulcrum of the split to be. Then it closes down the old shard, and creates two new shards whose …
AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Pitfalls
It’s pretty easy to get lost in the immense product palette offered by Amazon Web Services. There’s everything from bare-bones virtual machines (EC2) through fast database provisioning (RDS) to Machine Learning (AML). For any given requirement, you’re probably going …
boot2docker and insecure registries
If Docker, running under OS X via boot2docker, won’t connect to an insecure docker registry, here’s how to fix that.
https://coderwall.com/p/zafv9g/use-private-docker-registry-in-os-x…
VAXMAN
Better Bash Scripting in 15 Minutes
I haven’t tried how much of this also works in zsh, I’m guessing a lot. Some really good stuff here.