Quick Tricks

Quick Tricks

Bash script to check SSL certificate expiry

This script iterates through my list of targets, checks the certificate expiry and prints the details.

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Decode Webpages using FireFox Plugin

Create a FireFox extension that allows post processing a webpage. Use a mapping file to decode hidden values.

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Cmake, Conan, and GTest Example

A minimal example of a project that uses cmake, conan, and gtest. I make use of the very handy cmake-conan wrapper. This setup also works seamlessly in CLion

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How to create a broken UTF-8 CSV

Create a broken utf8 CSV for use in your unit tests

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List GitHub Repositories with Search Term

GitHub provides search functionality, but it returns every mention in code. I just needed the list of repositories. Using the GitHub API we are able to fetch these results.

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Rotating Password Generation Command

Use Linux Watch to continually generate passwords for you

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Batch convert video files with grep, xargs, sed and ffmpeg

Explore a combination of tools including pipe, grep, find, xargs, and sed to do some video conversion

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Multiple Git accounts with different SSH keys

It's quite simple to setup multiple Git (in this case GitHub) accounts on the same machine, each using different SSH keys. The scenario that I use this for is to have both a personal account and a work account. Host github-personal HostName github.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/personal_github_

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Application Data Sync with WebDAV

Use WebDAV in your application to sync files (sqlite in my case) between devices. Storage backed by NextCloud, AWS S3, Google Drive, Dropbox and more

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Vim Tricks: sudo write current file

Execute sudo write from within vim