Git My Favorite Git Commands Git and GitHub are pretty much a part of a developer’s work day, and each developer tends to define their set of tried and true Git commands. Here is my list of Git commands (in no special order): 1. git init: initialize a repository 2. git branch -a: see
Admin Finding the BIG files with find We often need to find the most voluminous files on our Ubuntu file systems for administrative clean-up or for what killed the cat - curiosity. The simplest and most direct command to do this is find with the following add-on helper functions: find . -xdev -type f -size +100M -print | xargs
Admin Note to self: how to use TMUX This is just a simple cheatsheet on how to use TMUX (terminal multiplexer) in the following use-case: you plan to start a long running job in a remote shell and you want to be able to exit the session without losing the job execution; or more commonly, you are in
PASTA PASTA+ authentication with Python Requests PASTA+ [https://pastaplus-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/] is a environmental data repository software ecosystem. It allows user access to upload and read data content through a REST API. Some calls (e.g., data upload) require an authenticated session. Authentication can be performed using either HTTP basic authentication (using the Authorization
Admin Hooking Solr with Systemd on Ubuntu 18.04 We have begun the migration of Apache Solr [https://lucene.apache.org/solr/] from Ubuntu 14.04 to 18.04. Although we will continue to use Solr on 18.04 in an almost identical configuration as we do on 14.04, one critical change we must perform is to move
A new blog... Welcome to yet another blog site, mine – Mark Servilla. Time will tell what lands here, but I imagine I will write about systems, devops, programming, backcountry, cycling, and other things I am passionate about.
