Introduction A short blog post to outline how to access the site identifier associated with a Firebase project. Access Site Identifier Accessing a list of sites To access a list of sites you can use the following command 1firebase hosting:sites:list The above command also supports exporting the list as json …

Introduction The Hosting a static website blog post walks through the essentials of running a website from a Google Cloud Storage bucket. In general just remember that the bucket name needs to be globally unique. ProTip: prefix the bucket name with the Google project identifier e.g. myawesomeproject-bucket In this …

Introduction When working with Google Cloud Storage as a backend, you will probably need to amend the CORS setting at some point. CORS stands for Cross Origin Resource Sharing and is invoked from your browser as a security access feature. Typically the HTTP-header will indicate which origin is permitted to be accessed. …

Introduction If you are using a Google Cloud Storage bucket for application development you may want to use this handy tip. When working with data, you can turn off the cache-control option. If you want to test things like temporary JSON or image files, this setting is super useful. Amend the bucket metadata Google …

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 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 …