Vegetarian Beef Tips and Asparagus Stir Fry

Ingredients

  • 2 bags Gardein Be’f Tips1
  • 1 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon ginger, minced
  • 1 teaspoon brown sugar
  • 1/2 red onion, chopped
  • 1 red bell pepper, chopped
  • approx 1 1/2 lbs of asparagus cut into 2 inch pieces
  • 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 2 teaspoons cornstarch
  • 4 cups cooked rice

Directions

  1. In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, and brown sugar and set aside
  2. Heat a skillet
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How to set up a locally hosted git server and create new repositories

You may have code and configurations that are required to stay on premise. As a result, you will need to setup your own git server and create and manage repositories locally. Following is an overview of how to set that up.

We will leave aside server setup, configuration, and networking and assume that we have a machine on which we will host the repos, git-server, and machines that will clone, pull, and push updates, clients.

Setting up the

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Setting up software RAID on Debian with mdadm

Software RAID has come a long way. Unless you have some very high-rate, high-volume, I/O workloads with SLAs that will otherwise cost you money, for the most part a software RAID will perform just fine. One of the primary benefits of using software RAID is the portability of your disks/data. If a box on which you have a software RAID dies somehow and at least some (depending on your RAID configuration) of drives survive, you can easily resurrect the RAID → Continue reading “Setting up software RAID on Debian with mdadm”

Enable and disable delivery to additional email addresses for sent and received messages with a Google Workspace account

I have a Google Workspace account for my domain and sometimes it is useful to have messages sent from or sent too other addresses in my domain also delivered to my address.

To set it up, login to your Google Admin console, then in the left-hand navigation click on Google Workspace, and then Gmail.

Look for Routing and click on it to enter the routing configurations.

You can then add, modify, delete, enable, or disable routing rules for → Continue reading “Enable and disable delivery to additional email addresses for sent and received messages with a Google Workspace account”

[SOLVED] debsig-verify for Failed verification error, “signatures using the SHA1 algorithm are rejected” and “Can’t check signature: Invalid digest algorithm”

If you are using debsig-verify for the verification of a downloaded .deb file and are unable to verify it, run it with the -d option to get more information. If you see the following two lines

gpg: Note: signatures using the SHA1 algorithm are rejected
gpg: Can't check signature: Invalid digest algorithm

It is likely that the PGP signature used to sign the package uses the SHA1 algorithm which has been deprecated in most of the recent Linux distros. If → Continue reading “[SOLVED] debsig-verify for Failed verification error, “signatures using the SHA1 algorithm are rejected” and “Can’t check signature: Invalid digest algorithm””

Query for Finding the nth Element in a PostgreSQL JSONB Array that Matches a Specified Value

The following is a sample query that you can use to search for rows that have the nth element in a JSONB array that match a specific value.

Given

CREATE TABLE sample_jsonb (
  id serial PRIMARY KEY,
  name varchar(64),
  json_data jsonb
);

INSERT INTO sample_jsonb(name, json_data)
VALUES
  ('foo',
  '{
  "key": "val1",
  "arr": ["homer", "bart", "barney"]
  }'),
  ('bar',
  '{
  "key": "val2",
  "arr": ["marge", "lisa", "maggie"]
  }'),
  ('baz',
  '{
  "key": "val2",
  "arr": ["bart", "milhouse", "nelson"]
  }')
;

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LVM Resize – reduce the size of one logical volume to enable expanding another

I’m running an Ubuntu workstation and when setting it up simply went the “next-next-next” route when setting up the encrypted disk via LVM. The default is to create a 1G swap partition which is just not enough when you attempt to run too many things and locks up and/or crashes the machine.

My goal was to reduce my /root partition and then use that space to extend my swap partition.

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Query for Finding an Element in a PostgreSQL JSONB Array

The following is a sample query that you can use to search for rows that have an element in a JSONB array.

Given

CREATE TABLE sample_jsonb (
  id serial PRIMARY KEY,
  name varchar(64),
  json_data jsonb
);

INSERT INTO sample_jsonb(name, json_data)
VALUES
  ('foo',
  '{
  "key": "val1",
  "arr": ["homer", "bart", "barney"]
  }'),
  ('bar',
  '{
  "key": "val2",
  "arr": ["marge", "lisa", "maggie"]
  }')
;

select count(*) from sample_jsonb where json_data-'arr' ? 'marge';
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Convert a Slice of Any Type to a CSV in Go

There are times, mostly for logging and debugging, when you have a slice of a given type that you would like to print to a log file or just convert to a CSV of values.

A quick and easy way to convert a slice to a CSV in Golang is to use the json module to Marshal it a JSON encoded array.

For example

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	ints := []int64{1, 2, 3, 
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PostgreSQL Query to Find Tables With Name LIKE

Sometimes you are working with a PostgreSQL database with A LOT of tables and looking for tables that contain a sub-string in their name. Following is a query that you can run that will return all of the tables that have the string in their name:

SELECT
  table_schema,
  table_name
FROM
  information_schema.tables
WHERE
      table_name LIKE '%<string%'
  AND table_schema not in ('information_schema', 'pg_catalog')
  AND table_type = 'BASE TABLE'
ORDER BY
  table_name, table_schema
;
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