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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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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Currently I’m working on a small WordPress plugin that does syntax highlighting. I have the need to ship some maintenance scripts with my Dev Containers. I want some aliases to interact with the scripts (instead of calling them through /scripts/actions.sh. This solution uses a Bash startup file and a custom Dockerfile.
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When you host a WordPress website, you might need to have FTP access. If you do FTP, why not SFTP (which uses SSH to do a secure transfer)? It is fully supported by FileZilla. Let’s create a script that does the setup of the new SFTP user. As we’re using WordOps, we’ll grand the new user rights on our /var/www directory.
Read the article Create new SFTP user in Ubuntu Server for WordOps
Let’s build a bash script that is able to obtain a refresh OAuth token for a 3LO Atlassian app to be able to make offline API requests.
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We 🧡 the combination of Grafana, Hubot & Slack. We use it all the time to visualize dashboards in Slack. But the interaction with certain dashboards might not be as fast as one expect from a chat bot, so let’s see what we can do.
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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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So far I’ve been using the hubot-pretend package for the testing of the hubot-command-mapper. But as that test package is no longer maintained / updated, I wanted to switch to something that is more in line with what Hubot itself does: hubot-mock-adapter.
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Let’s explore how to add a dev container to our Node.js bot-zero project. We’ll help the end user to understand how to run the project by adding a profile script whenever the terminal is openend in Visual Studio Code.
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I love the replaceAll string API in JavaScript, as it makes replacing a string far more intuitive than the “good old” global regular expression. This week I had to replace strings with the results of async calls. Yeah, that is not supported by any API in standard JavaScript.
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