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Run the OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes for Front-End Tracing

August 22, 2022August 22, 2022

TL;DR: Run the OpenTelemetry Collector helm chart with –values=values.yaml pointing to the values.yaml in this gist. Use kubectl get services to find the collector’s URL. The rest of this blog post walks through the whole process of setting this up. This will teach you the why and how of each step, so that you can adjust it to your needs. There’s also …

PowerShell equivalent of find

March 1, 2021April 23, 2020

TL;DR: gci -r -fi <filename-pattern> My favorite use of find in bash is to find files whose name matches a pattern. For instance, find all the jar files under this directory: bash# find . -name ‘*.jar’ In PowerShell, there’s a program called “find” but it ain’t the same program. Short Answer Instead, use Get-ChildItem. The …

This verbosity makes me happy

October 25, 2019October 24, 2019

Today I learned how to create aliases in PowerShell. I’m switching from Mac to Windows, and I want the terminal in VS Code to do what I want. No terminal will work for me until it interprets gs as git status. I type that compulsively. In bash, setting that up looks like this: alias gs=’git …

Cropping a bunch of pictures to the same dimensions

May 26, 2019January 31, 2015

Ah, command line tools, they’re so fast. And so easy to use on a Mac. Given a bunch of image files in the same dimensions, that you want to crop to a fixed portion of the image: 1) Install imagemagick brew install imagemagick 2) put all the images in a directory by themselves, and cd …