Technology

Anything can be technology. But the dictionary defines it as:

1: a: the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area; b: a capability given by the practical application of knowledge.
2: a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.
3: the specialized aspects of a particular field of endeavor.

There are 48 articles tagged with Technology.

PowerShell, Windows

How to bypass company wallpaper as local admin on Windows 11

Looks like my organization (accidentally) wants to manage my background picture. If you are an admin, you might be able to (temporarily) override the wallpaper, by editing your registry and restarting the explorer process. If you can, you can automate it using PowerShell.

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Automation, Git, Installation Notes, Windows

Notes on Git Setup with SSH for Windows (GitHub)

There are many guides on how to install and configure Git on a Windows PC. As I test new developer laptops for Wehkamp, it makes sense to have some notes on how to do it. Most Windows developers use git HTTPS cloning, but this guide shows how to install and configure SSH.

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Git, Installation Notes, Windows

Setup GPG signing for git commits on Windows

Let’s setup commit verification using GPG on Windows. This will prompt us to sign the commit. I will be using a passphrase instead of signing the commits with my SSH token. This gives an extra layer of security to the setup.

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Installation Notes, PowerShell, Windows, WSL

Notes on WSL Tuning

Here I’ll store my notes on WSL tuning. I mainly use WSL to do Dev Containers, so I need it to run as smooth as possible. My main problems include: memory and disk size. Let’s see what we can do to address the problem.

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Installation Notes, PowerShell, Windows

Notes on Windows 11

I’ve finally upgraded to Windows 11. In this blog I’ll add some tuning I’ve applied to my installs (both private and for the company).

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Automation, Installation Notes, Windows

Notes on Chocolatey

With the Chocolatey Package Manager for Windows, it is super easy to install software from the command-line. This makes your installs scriptable and thus repeatable. In this blog I’ll show you how to render installation instructions from a machine and how to use the Windows Task Scheduler to update your packages regularly.

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Amazon S3, bash

Harmonizing Team tags on AWS S3 Buckets

At Wehkamp we use many – many – buckets! To do FinOps correctly, it is important we’re able to determine which teams own which buckets. In this article I’ll discuss how to detect Team tags that are not correct and apply the correct ones. We’re using a combination of Bash, AWS CLI, CSV and JQ.

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AWS, PowerShell

Share AWS Vault session with Bash (WSL)

I’m on Windows and I use AWS Vault to connect to AWS using an MFA token. It works wonderfully, unless you need to execute some Bash scripts. I love using Bash on Windows, as WSL makes it really easy to write my scripts. But, alas, the AWS environment variables set by AWS Vault are not […]

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Automation, Cloudflare, Docker

Expose docker-compose app with a secure Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared)

When I build containerized apps that need to be exposed on the internet, I usually need to forward ports, set up let’s encrypt and reverse proxy some random port. In this blog I’ll show you how to ditch all of that in favor of 1 secure Cloudflare tunnel in a docker-compose file.

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Amazon S3, Automation, Node.js

Using the S3P API to copy 1.3M of 5M of AWS S3 keys

This week we had to exfil some data out of a bucket with 5M+ of keys. After doing some calculations and testing with a Bash script that used AWS cli, we decided to go a more performant route and use s3p. They claim to be 5-50 times faster than AWS cli 😊.

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