Development - Dave Jansen

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A collection of 14 posts

Using 1Password with Visual Studio Code Remote SSH and Dev Containers on Linux

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Using 1Password with Visual Studio Code Remote SSH and Dev Containers on Linux

1Password is a great and powerful tool that helps you use better, more secure passwords for all the accounts, services, and tools you may use. In October 2020, a beta version of 1Password for Linux was announced, which I was very excited about. 1Password was one of the few tools

Use git patch to update a deployed project or website

Whether you're maintaining an older client website or you have a side project that you just can't afford to buy fancier services for, there will be times where you have to manually deploy an update. For those cases, git's built-in patch functionality might offer a fantastic benefit over manually replacing

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How to dump & restore a MongoDB database from a docker container

MongoDB is an interesting tool. Dead simple to create and modify records (or, "documents") that are basically pure JSON goodness, juxtaposed with tools or commands that at times make you scratch your head in utter confusion and/or disbelief. 📣2023/03/14 Update: I have updated the guide below to

Converting a WordPress site into a static website

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Converting a WordPress site into a static website

Recently I had to convert a website powered by WordPress into a static site, as I wanted to host it in an archived state without having to maintain it on a service that supports all the bells and whistles that WordPress requires. Since the content cannot be updated any more

Audit & Fix your NPM packages when using Yarn

Audit & Fix your NPM packages when using Yarn

Yarn is a nice alternative to NPM, with pretty much feature parity and, depending on the version, some speed benefits too, though these days perhaps slightly less so as compared to a few years ago. While there's pretty much feature parity, there's one area where Yarn is missing one somewhat

Setting up MonoDevelop on Ubuntu for Stardew Valley Mod Development

Setting up MonoDevelop on Ubuntu for Stardew Valley Mod Development

As with all things Linux, you occasionally run into a quirk or issue that is either caused by the project not primarily being developed or maintained for Linux, or more directly due to a Linux oddity. Today I'll run through the steps I took to get MonoDevelop set up correctly

How to dump & restore a MariaDB/MySQL database from a docker container

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How to dump & restore a MariaDB/MySQL database from a docker container

In the same vein as my previous post on dumping and restoring your PostgreSQL database, here are mostly copy/paste-able commands for when you're using a MariaDB or MySQL database. How to dump & restore a PostgreSQL database from a docker containerSometimes you need to quickly dump and restore a PostgreSQL

Multi-step Docker Build Container Template for Node.js Applications

Multi-step Docker Build Container Template for Node.js Applications

This is a simple multi-step Node.js application docker build template that you can use to create self-contained, relatively small-sized and easily deployable images of your application. You can read more about it here, or check the template out on my Github [https://github.com/hellodeibu/docker-multistep-nodejs-build]. Why multi-step There

How to dump & restore a PostgreSQL database from a docker container

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How to dump & restore a PostgreSQL database from a docker container

Sometimes you need to quickly dump and restore a PostgreSQL database, but what's the easiest way to do this when your database is in a Docker container? How to dump & restore a MariaDB/MySQL database from a docker containerIn the same vein as my previous post on dumping and restoring

Ghost, Matomo, MariaDB and Traefik with SSL stack for personal blogs

I have created a basic docker compose stack for people who want to use Ghost and Matomo with SSL. Read on for additional details, or head straight to my GitHub repository for the code. Background For my personal blog (the one you're reading this on) I had previously set up

Quick: Docker Credential Helper

Quick: Docker Credential Helper

Or; not storing your password in plaintext, because duh. This one got me by surprise; if you log in to something like Docker Hub or so using Docker, by default it stores your password in plaintext. Yikes? Fortunately there's a solution, but it still surprises me that you have to

Quick: Unzip multiple files with spaces in their filenames using command line.

Quick: Unzip multiple files with spaces in their filenames using command line.

You might have run into a similar situation; You need to unzip several ZIP files, but running unzip *.zip command results in errors shown about files not being found. Joy. Fortunately there's way to avoid this. Unfortunately, it's not something you can easily memorize. Or, I certainly cannot. Credit is

Quick: How to get your full CPU info in macOS

Quick: How to get your full CPU info in macOS

Because I keep forgetting how to do this myself, too, here's an easy command that reports back your CPU's info: sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string This will return a string looking something like this (taken from my Hackintosh [https://davejansen.com/why-and-how-i-went-hackintosh/]): > Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.

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How to set up and use Postgres locally using Docker

Here are my personal notes on how to set up Postgres locally using Docker. This is by no means the perfect or one-and-only method, but it works for my specific needs, and might help you as-well. I have also included how to easily download and import data from a Heroku-hosted