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Go Learning Resources
24th September 2020
This is a record of the resources that I am/have used to learn the Go programming language. This is mostly for my records but other that venture down the Golang path may also find it useful. Books Get Programming with Go - Nathan Youngman / Roger Peppe Black Hat Go: Go... continue reading
Use TCL to Pingsweep a Subnet on a Cisco IOS Device
8th September 2020
TCL is a simple programming language that you can use on Cisco IOS devices. This is just a quick post to demonstrate how to run a pingsweep on a Cisco IOS device using TCL. To enter the TCL shell use the tclsh command. A simple forloop can be used to ping a few addresses.... continue reading
Pushing to Multiple Git Remotes
31st August 2020
I am working on a project where I need to push to both a github and bitbucket repository as the project is stored in both of these locations. I do not have the ability to sync between the two using either github or bitbuckets built in tools. This post goes through the process of... continue reading
Install an Ubuntu 1804 VM on Hyper-V as a Vagrant Server
18th August 2020
Readers of my blog will probably have noticed that I like to use Vagrant for development and testing. I recently switched to using Windows and found the Hyper-V provider for Vagrant to be a bit limited. In this post I will install an Ubuntu 1804 VM on Hyper-V for use as a... continue reading
Hyper-V Enable Nested Virtualization in Linux VM
17th August 2020
I really like Vagrant for developement and testing. The Vagrant team maintains a Hyper-V provider for use with Windows but it has some limitations. A very big one being limited networking support. For example: You cannot create additional networks so are stuck using the... continue reading
Vagrant Libvirt Install Ubuntu 1804
16th August 2020
This post will cover the process of installing Vagrant with the libvirt provider on Ubuntu 1804. For reference the following software will be used in this post. Ubuntu - 1804 Vagrant - 2.2.9 Vagrant-libvirt - 0.1.2 System Prep Before we begin, lets ensure the host is... continue reading
Linux Shell Recursively Remove Whitespace Lines From All Files
25th July 2020
This is just a quick post to outline how to remove the lines with only white space from all files in a directory tree. I found another method to do this with the application I am using but I wanted to keep this handy one liner in my back pocket for future reference. Dark Magic ... continue reading
Remove Whitespace from Rendered Templates in 11ty
23rd July 2020
The default behavour of 11ty is to just remove the template tags from rendered templates and leave behind white space in its place. This is probably mostly fine but for me it was causing large amounts of white space in my rendered templates and needless changes in git diffs. ... continue reading
NVM Install and Usage Ubuntu 2004
22nd July 2020
Node version manager (NVM) allows you to run different version of Node on your system which is very helpful for testing and ensuring that the Node version you test on is the same as the Node version you run in production. This is just a quick post on how to install and use (NVM) on... continue reading
Cisco ACI Tips and Tricks
3rd July 2020
Cisco ACI does things a bit differently to traditional networking. I find myself constantly duck hunting to do simple things so I am documenting them here so they are easier for me to fine. Get VRF Names Get a list of VRFs with the show vrf command from a leaf node. How to... continue reading
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