Latest Amazon Linux AMI

Again, found on the internet (but with some old code that was not getting the latest images), so again as the case of the latest CentOs ami post, as public memory

Assuming:

• You want an HVM, EBS backed, x86_64 image of the latest version of Amazon Linux
• You have configured the desired region and credentials for the AWS SDK
• Owned by Amazon, of course. Continue reading

Wordpress is no more, long live Hugo

After some (great deal of) abandonment, I’ve created some new random stuff in my blog, only to actually see the sad state it was. I’ve contemplated the idea of still maintaining it, update wordpress and all that jazz. The last drop of water was some uploaded php in it. So no more. Wordpress is no more, live long and prosper Hugo. Out is the old php runtime, in is the pre-generated static content. Continue reading

chmod recursive doing the right thing

chmod -R u=rwX,go=rX <TARGET> The trick being X instead of x and = instead of +. Go read the chmod man page.

Latest Centos 7 AMI

That’s around the internet but I keep searching for it every time, so here it is as a public memory:

Assuming:

• You want an HVM, EBS backed, x86_64 image of the latest version of CentOS 7
• You have configured the desired region and credentials for the AWS SDK
• The Owner ID for the official CentOS organisation remains 679593333241 Continue reading

mysql 5.6 low memory config for 512MB boxes

to the posterity:

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artisan in any subdir of your git repo.

alias artisan='php `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`/artisan' You can thank me later.

You've forgot one file out of your last commit, didn't ya?

And now you’ve got 2 commits that were supposed to be one. Fear not! Add this to your Alias section of ~/.gitconfig: squash = "!f(){ git reset --soft HEAD~${1} && git commit --edit -m\"$(git log --format=%B --reverse HEAD..HEAD@{1})\"; };f" Now you can simply do a git squash 2 to join these last 2 commits together.