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2021 · Mar 16 2 min Updated Dec 2023

A small Node.js CLI that polls URLs with Axios and reports when a service becomes ready.

2020 · Sep 06 1 min Updated Dec 2023

Find and kill the process listening on a TCP port with fuser.

2020 · Aug 26 1 min Updated Dec 2023

Define parallel stages in a Jenkins pipeline with a Groovy Jenkinsfile.

2020 · Aug 21 1 min Updated Dec 2023

Open a throwaway TCP server with netcat and connect a client to it.

2020 · May 22 1 min Updated Dec 2023

Install a recent CMake on Ubuntu from Snap or by building a release from source.

2020 · May 02 1 min Updated Dec 2023

Generate a changelog between two Git tags with git log and a custom pretty format.

2020 · Feb 21 1 min Updated Dec 2023

List available versions with yum --showduplicates and install a specific package version on CentOS/RHEL.

2020 · Feb 04 1 min Updated Dec 2023

Compute the UTF-8 byte length of a JavaScript string, which String.length does not give you.

2019 · Oct 30 1 min Updated Dec 2023

Generate a self-signed TLS certificate and key for local development with openssl.

2019 · Sep 19 1 min Updated Dec 2023

Recover Debian/Ubuntu when apt reports that a package needs to be reinstalled but has no archive.

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