For those of us who weren’t persuaded by “The Easy Way” — Introduction (Looking for the TL;DR? Scroll down for the theory and the approach if you‘re not interested in the backstory) Once upon a time, an impressionable sixteen year-old me accepted a peer-pressure cancer-stick from a close friend in a dark and smoky corner of a pool bar, and coughed and spluttered…

And reinstalling it on each startup with a bash script — Scorecard: From Windows To MacOS And Back Again The Goods, the Bads, and the Ugliestherightstuff.medium.com A few months ago, my beloved MacBook finally reached the end of its long and colorful MacOS life. I finally let it go, and returned to my Windows machine. I couldn’t do anything with it, really, but I also couldn’t bring myself to take it in for recycling. …

Ever since the 7th of October, our lives have been turned upside down. The world has become a surreal, terrifying place, and it’s all any of us can do just to put one foot in front of the other and deal with whatever we have in front of us. An…

You make a lot of good points, but your framing of what we're doing to rescue our kidnapped women, children (babies!) and elderly, defend ourselves and extricate ourselves from the status quo of being under constant threat as "retaliation" is way off the mark. It's fascinating to me that everyone…

As a zionist peacenik I simply cannot agree with some of your sentiments and terminology - there is no "occupation", though I'm vehemently against the settlers - but I am grateful that you've managed to so eloquently express your thoughts and emotions considering what we're all going through. …

How to return request-aware responses from your mocked URLs — A while back I had some tests that needed different responses to the same URLs, where the functionality being tested was deterministic when it came to the order in which the requests were being made. …

Good luck de-programming the blatant lies of the pro-Palestinian movement — This article goes out to all those people who are insisting on sticking with the pro-Palestinian propaganda narrative in spite of now seeing with their own eyes what we’ve been dealing with and talking about for decades. For decades, the world has been lied to about Israel’s activities in Gaza…

Fun Challenge: A Script To Handle Lambda Layer Building For Python And Node.js For both Windows and MacOS, somewhat more convoluted than expectedawstip.com Now that I have a script to build Python Lambda layers for my CDK projects, deploying Python Lambda functions has become extremely straightforward! Everything in this article can be found in the aws-cdk-js-dev-guide. The Lambda Layer Assuming we’re using the aws-cdk-js-dev-guide build script, all we need for this example is a sample-layer folder…

How I learned to re-map keys in MacOS with Karabiner — The Son Of A Tilde For many MacOS users, keyboard shortcuts make or break the experience. I’m personally not too crazy about them, but there are a few that I use regularly: Cmd+Tab to switch between applications Cmd+Tilde (~) to switch between windows of the same single application Cmd+Space to access apps (mostly just the…