$ passimport list.csv

Switching to Pass was not exactly a straightforward process. It lacks a built-in mass import feature and I was dealing with a few hundred passwords and as a programmer entering them manually was unthinkable. After looking around at several plugins for Pass nothing seemed simple enough so I wrote my open python script to handle the task. I later turned that script into an executable, run by this command, and pushed it to GitHub.

my repo

source:

pass docs

$ pass -c github

Switching to Pass, a CLI based password manager, was a big time saver for me. I was using Padlock, a minimalist open source electron based manager, but was wasting so much time waiting for the GUI to load up and entering my master password scrolling to the desired entry and clicking. I’m not a time-saving purist but it was downright annoying UX pattern. Now I don’t even have to leave the comfort of my keyboard.

source:

pass docs

git log -p -2 or git lg -p -2

Viewing previous changes was something I relied on a GUI’s for, like GitLab/Source-Tree, until I found this command! The -p stands for –patch and the -2 stands for last two commits.

source:

git docs

$ aws s3 sync --acl public-read --sse AES256 build/ s3://travisshears.com

Having the ability to send a site live with a single command is heaven and not a BASH script with a bunch of moving parts liable to break. This command takes me back to the old days when putting a site live meant an FTP upload command to a server letting Apache take care of the rest. This site, for example, is hosted in an AWS S3 bucket that is connected to AWS CloudFront.

inspiration:

lustforge - great blog post

$ aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id E29OAXKYAP0NP8 --paths  /work/

Pairing well with the sync is invalidating the CDN so that the live site is updated immediately with the S3 bucket. Like everything these days, there is a cost involved with this operation so if I’m not in a rush I often avoid it. Also you can reduce cost by using –paths only invalidating needed routes.

inspiration:

lustforge - great blog post

$ curl -X GET https://some.json.endpoint.com | python -m json.tool

Need to check a API request but stuck reading a garbled mess. Try pipeing the result to python json.tool

source:

stackoverflow

$ sudo lsof -i:3000

Launching a process and it’s complaining about port being in use? With 100 shells running and os apps this can be hard to track down. Run this to get an idea of what to kill.

source:

superuser