This article was making the rounds this week: did.txt file. Lately, I’ve been having trouble remember what I did, so the timing of that post was perfect. In the past, I’ve been able to do this in git like git reflog –since yesterday –decorate –author $(git whoami), but these days I’m in many Git repos…
Read More My did to help me remember what I didWith 12factor style environment configs, it’s a very easy to accidentally connect to your production database when you think you’re connecting to dev. Here’s a simple guard you can add to make sure your DATABASE_URL isn’t somehow pointed to someplace it’s not supposed to (assuming you’re using Amazon AWS): bash: if [[ ${DATABASE_URL} == *”amazonaws”*…
Read More Patterns: don’t mess up the prod db!So today, being stuck in the house, I decide I should streamline some of my things in the unix world. So I picked up some BASH scripting. I got some serious flashbacks to the 90’s. I would have flashed back earlier, but I’m not old enough. It really makes you appreciate the UNIX geeks of…
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