Welcome to my encyclopedia of shitty code!
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GitHub Copilot: 10+ Ways to Increase Productivity
What is GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot is dubbed “an AI pair programmer” to help us write code faster, using a generative AI model developed through a collaboration between GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft Azure AI. These days, there are nothing short of AI-powered tools that can do similar things in this space. For example, Tabnine, Google’s… Read More…
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VPC SC: 2 Ways to Fix NO_MATCHING_ACCESS_LEVEL Error
This post shows you how to fix the dreaded NO_MATCHING_ACCESS_LEVEL error when dealing with VPC Service Control in GCP. Background Let’s assume you want to protect a project and its resources by putting it within a VPC SC perimeter. You must also ensure your trusted device(s) can access the protected project resources. In this case,… Read More…
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Vertex AI PaLM: Intro to text-bison
What is text-bison Google’s PaLM 2 for text (text-bison) is recently GA’d. This foundation model is optimized for natural language tasks and it comes in 4 sizes (gecko, otter, bison, and unicorn). To date, unicorn doesn’t exist yet, no pun intended… unless one decides to stick an ice cream cone on a pony’s forehead at… Read More…
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GCP BigQuery: Finding Expensive Queries
Problem This post applies to you if: Solution The GCP billing report can tell us the cost breakdown of the services used over time, but it cannot tell us why it costs this much. To get the whys, we need to pull additional data to paint a fuller picture. Filtering the Logs There are several… Read More…
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WordPress: Creating Gutenberg-Block Compatible Posts Using Rest API
This article shows how you can dynamically create new WordPress posts using REST API that is compatible with Gutenberg blocks. When done correctly, there is no need to manually convert the content from Classic Editor to Gutenberg Block Editor, or fix incorrectly converted blocks. This is a big time saver when you plan to create… Read More…
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GitHub: Key is Already in Use
PROBLEM When trying to add a SSH key in GitHub, an error “Key is already in use” is thrown even though you signed into GitHub using a different user account. SOLUTION The error occurs when the same SSH key has been added to a different account. This typically happens when you already have an existing… Read More…
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Terraform: Updating State Using “Moved” Block
This post illustrates how you can rename existing resources or restructure the Terraform codebase without destroying and recreating the resources using moved block introduced in Terraform 1.1. It also explains some limitations using this new construct. PROBLEM: MODIFYING EXISTING RESOURCE NAME Using a simple resource block below as an example… On apply, one resource is… Read More…
About Author
This author has 20+ years of experience in software engineering and cloud engineering. In an industry where knowledge becomes obsolete in the next three months, he learns anything that crosses his path indiscriminately. He floats from one technology to another like a moth and stings the problem sets like a mosquito. This author codes Java while drinking Espresso and writes Spock specifications while listening to Groovy beats. He masters Google Cloud Platform just like how he masters the art of predicting the movement of dark clouds over his backyard, where 60% of the time, he is right every time.
This author suffers from the Dunning-Kruger effect, where he overestimates his competence and underestimates his ignorance. Technology buzzwords never faze him, for he does not know enough to be afraid of in the first place. GCP, GCS, GCR, GKE, GWT… everything sounds the same to him. He never fears acronyms, synonyms, or antonyms, for he has ChatGPT in his back pocket. This author is a jack of all trades but a master of none. He writes like he knows all the answers, yet he googles for better solutions from elsewhere. He fakes it until he makes it; if he doesn’t, that’s okay because he has the attention span of a squirrel. The blog posts are his buried walnuts, in case he needs them one day.
In conclusion, this author is full of something. He apologizes in advance if you are trying to solve your company’s real problems with his shitty solutions. There, he has successfully written paragraphs of nonsense because every professional blogging website needs a section about the author, with a too-cool-to-smile portrait staring sideways into the abyss.