With the Windows Package Manager (winget), it is easy to install software from the command line. This makes your installs scriptable and thus repeatable. This article is the WinGet counterpart to my previous Notes on Chocolatey: it shows how to reproduce a machine’s installation instructions and update your packages regularly. Install WinGet WinGet is supported…
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Let’s switch from Chrome to Brave, as it is a more privacy-focused browser and the ad blocker extensions don’t function anymore. I’ll also show how to make Windows start Brave when you type ‘chrome’ into your Run box. And let’s fix those profile icons.
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If you have local administrator access, you may be able to temporarily override a managed Windows 11 wallpaper by updating the registry and refreshing the wallpaper with PowerShell.
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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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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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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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A living collection of Windows 11 tweaks, PowerShell 7 commands, development tools, WSL 2 and Rancher Desktop setup.
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With the Chocolatey Package Manager for Windows, it is easy to install software from the command line. This article shows how to generate installation instructions from a machine and schedule regular package upgrades with Windows Task Scheduler.
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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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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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