Diagrams.net (previously drawio) has shapes for the C4 model of visualising software architecture. When I initially added a diagram, I couldn’t resize it. But came across a solution via [Google Gr...

Given a username and password, how do I add them as encoded values in a HTTP header when making a webservice call with Invoke-RestMethod ? $user = "User" $password = "S3cr3t" $pair = "$($user):$($...

Context I used one Cloudformation template to create an IAM role - an InstanceRole with limited permissions. I wanted to add additional permissions (e.g., being able to write to a particular path ...

Sometimes I need to save credentials in an environment variable that I can later use in a script. # prompt for user for username. read -s -p "Enter username: " SECRET_USER # User types the usernam...

When it comes to troubleshooting HashiCorp’s Packer builds, Packer offers 2 ways: More detailed logging that’s activated by setting the PACKER_LOG environment variable to a value that’s not "" nor...

tl;dr setup-actions uses versions preinstalled on a self-hosted runner. If a version is specified in the GitHub Actions workflow yml file but it’s not preinstalled on the self-hosted runner, then ...

Intention I’m currently learning CSS through Josh Comeau’s excellent course, CSS for JS. Each module has workshops/exercises that we work through. Each of these is a git repository on GitHub. My w...

How do I download a remote file via an API that also expects an auth Token? $DownloadedFile = "C:\tmp\filename.zip"; $Url = "https://path/" $TOKEN = "supers3crettoken" $headers = @{ 'Accept'...

When downloading files, such as those attached to a github release, most have hashes. After downloading the file, how do I check that the hash of a file I’m downloading is valid? An example I’ll u...

If your json contains a list of objects, jq allows you to access such elements using an array index filter jq '.[index]' someData.json. But the value index is static, say jq '.[2]' someData.json. ...