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Methods of Signing Git Commits on MacOS

Last updated March 13, 2024

This Gist explains how to sign commits using gpg in a step-by-step fashion. Previously, krypt.co was heavily mentioned, but I've only recently learned they were acquired by Akamai and no longer update their previous free products. Those mentions have been removed.

Additionally, 1Password now supports signing Git commits with SSH keys and makes it pretty easy-plus you can easily configure Git Tower to use it for both signing and ssh.

For using a GUI-based GIT tool such as Tower or Github Desktop, follow the steps here for signing your commits with GPG.

Change your database RDS instance security group to allow your machine to access it.
- Add your ip to the security group to acces the instance via Postgres.
Make a copy of the database using pg_dump
- $ pg_dump -h <public dns> -U <my username> -f <name of dump file .sql> <name of my database>
- you will be asked for postgressql password.
- a dump file(.sql) will be created
Restore that dump file to your local database.
- but you might need to drop the database and create it first
- $ psql -U <postgresql username> -d <database name> -f <dump file that you want to restore>

the database is restored

ABOUT

about:config settings to harden the Firefox browser. Privacy and performance enhancements.
To change these settings type 'about:config' in the url bar. Then search the setting you would like to change and modify the value. Some settings may break certain websites from functioning and rendering normally. Some settings may also make firefox unstable. I am not liable for any damages/loss of data.

Not all these changes are necessary and will be dependent upon your usage and hardware. Do some research on settings if you don't understand what they do. These settings are best combined with your standard privacy extensions (~~HTTPS Everywhere~~ No longer required: Enable HTTPS-Only Mode, NoScript/Request Policy, uBlock origin, agent spoofing, ~~Privacy Badger~~ etc), and all plugins set to "Ask To Activate".

#Getting Started

##Webpage:

<html>
<head>
    <title>Testing with Ruby and Selenium WebDriver</title>
</head>
 
<body bgcolor="antiquewhite">

	#OSX Tweaks:
	===========

	- Most need reboot to show changes
	- Most of these tweaks are just for speed, but some are specific for development
	- All of these are to be ran in terminal. The commands to be copy and pasted start after the less-than sign.
	- I'm not responsible for any adverse effects to your computer, at all.


	##Increase the speed of OS X dialogs boxes:

	# put this in your .bash_profile
	if [ $ITERM_SESSION_ID ]; then
	export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033];${PWD##*/}\007"; ':"$PROMPT_COMMAND";
	fi

	# Piece-by-Piece Explanation:
	# the if condition makes sure we only screw with $PROMPT_COMMAND if we're in an iTerm environment
	# iTerm happens to give each session a unique $ITERM_SESSION_ID we can use, $ITERM_PROFILE is an option too
	# the $PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable is executed every time a command is run
	# see: ss64.com/bash/syntax-prompt.html

	-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
	SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
	ORDER BY query_start desc;

	-- show running queries (9.2)
	SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'

	class TaxCode
	GENERATORS = {
	:us => lambda { \|id\| "US-#{id}" },
	:br => lambda { \|id\| "#{id + 9}-BRA" },
	}

	def self.generate(code, id)
	gen = GENERATORS[code] \|\| raise ArgumentError, "No generator for country #{code}"
	gen.call(id)
	end

	# From http://garmoncheg.blogspot.com/2012/06/pretty-git-log.html
	git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --"