Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, which is a fancy way of saying it give you the ability to run multi terminals. Google Cloud Cloudshell uses the default Tmux configuration which makes me not want to use it. However help is at hand. You can update the settings and this post covers how to make those changes. Cloudshell is …

Cloud Run Regex Normally when someone mentions regex its time to make a swift exit. Since I was working on a new project featuring Cloud Run I needed to face my fears. This is my story. Regex for the masses Cloud Run has a defined url signature which is common across all deployments. If you need to check that this …

Cloud Shell is super useful and features a lot of tools. However out of the box the general setup doesnt match my local machine. If you want to use tmux or vim in your environment, this blog post is for you. The following is a quick summary of changes made to update Cloud Shell to be a bit more like my own machine. …

Fish is described as a smart and user-friendly command shell. As you would expect it works on Linux and is super useful to get that optimized experience. The blog post covers installation on GCP Cloud Shell I would expect the installation process to be similar on any Linux based machine. If you want to use oh-my-bash, …

If you work at the command line with Git this ones for you! Most of my time is spent at the Linux command line. My tool of choice is always "oh-my-bash" as it just works across all my machines. However if you are using a Cloud Provider environment, you probably dont want to spend time setting up another …

Recently a colleague created a spreadsheet but was unaware of the power lurking underneath. Google Sheets include a very comprehensive toolset that can be used to extend functionality. Overview In this blog post learn how to access a Google Sheets document to extend functionality. To get started there are a couple of …

Introduction Did you know the lovely providers of cloud have a free tier? Have you wanted to take advantage but not sure where to start? If you are not familiar with the Free Tier offerings it can be worth your time to take a look. Below are the main cloud providers you may have heard of: Google Cloud Free Tier AWS …

The following blog post covers how to rename the default branch in GitHub. If you have wondered how to do this task it is basically two discrete steps. Rename the default branch Update the local clone Once complete the branch will be available and response as the default. Rename Default branch The default …

Introduction Cross-Origin Resource sharing (CORS) is a server setting that can be quite annoying. In general CORS is a great idea as it provides enhanced security by specifying which ORIGIN is valid. If you are a developer that controls the front and backend of an application, good news. Review the following …

Introduction A landing page is just a simple webpage that typically has a background image and some information. Here are some examples to get you started. dev.to onepagelove.com Lets use the free template onepagelove.com/download/me as an example page to get up and running. Working with the example Landing Page As …