Mac – Starting Multiple App Processes in iTerm2 Tabs

Often multiple related apps need to be started in concert for a product and it’s convenient to automate that for local development. If the apps are containerized then a Docker compose file, docker-compose up, docker-compose logs, and docker-compose down may be sufficient. However sometimes there may be a need to run the apps outside of…
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Docker PowerShell Scripts for Local Development

In working on a cloud native application locally, there have been various dependencies to spin up in order to run the different services. These include things like: Netflix Eureka for service discovery Spring Cloud Config for externalized, distributed configuration RabbitMQ for decoupled messaging and bulk processing Redis for distributed caching MySQL for data persistence Most…
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Picture Cleanup: Photo vs Image. Part 1 – PowerShell Core Image Metadata and Resizing

Inside the various subfolders of my picture library are files I would classify as images and not photos. Here I’m classifying images as image files I downloaded from the web or social media, screenshots and the like. Photos I’m classifying as taken from a camera, usually my mobile phone. For example: I really don’t want…
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Organizing Camera Media with Automator, Bash, PowerShell Core

Background The Media Import Process Every 3 months or so I offload camera roll photos and videos from my iPhone to my Mac. The process usually looks like this: Connect iPhone to Mac via lightning cable and unlock iPhone Open Preview, import from iPhone to a Desktop/camera folder Delete unwanted photos in Desktop/camera Move photos…
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PowerShell Visual Studio Related Tasks

Building on my time with PowerShellGet and Git from PowerShell, I wanted additional script functionality to do more than just version control operations on my .NET app’s codebase. This included things like building the solution, running unit tests, launching Visual Studio, and cleaning up binary output (bin, obj, packages). Launching Visual Studio Solutions Starting off…
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