So your Elasticsearch cluster has a cluster health of yellow. If we zoom out, there are three possible cluster health statuses that correspond with colors: red, yellow, and green. Your basic understanding is generally right: green is good and you don’t really have to worry, yellow means that you might…

If you’re here, then you are probably wondering what the -x flag is in a certain curl call that you’re using or analyzing is using. Let’s take an example call and break it down. curl -x http://10.1.23.4:1234 https://supercoolamazingnicewebsite.com What we’re doing here is using curl to access a website, https://supercoolamazingnicewebsite.com…

When it comes to adhering to best DEI — diversity, equity, and inclusion — principles, the need to adjust certain terms in the field of programming and software engineering is a simple reality of the 21st century. The following list is a guide of terms and language along with their…

Ah, darn. You’ve added a file or directory to your Git branch or pull request and actually don’t want it there. However, you don’t want to run a command that deletes it from there and your local workspace/machine/laptop/computer. Fortunately, there’s a very simple way to achieve this! Here are a…

I recently installed Hyper Terminal on my Mac and have been trying to set it up with plugins and themes. As a brief aside, Hyper is a neat command line terminal that’s aesthetically pleasing and extendible. The project itself, which is totally free and open-source, bills itself like this: The…

If you’re working in software, and especially if you’re dealing with search and analytics engines, then you may have heard of the term ELK. However, people are probably not talking about the animal of the same name, elk:

Get on the auto-complete (also known as auto-suggestions) train. It’ll make your terminal life a lot easier and a little more flashy too. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, imagine that whenever you start typing a command into your terminal that there’s an automatic prediction of what you…

Installing jq on Mac is super easy if you have Homebrew installed. But first, unsure what jq is and why it’s useful? jq’s website itself describes it better than I could: jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and…