Jon LaBelle jonlabelle

Get Latest Stable GitHub Tag

Retrieve the latest stable tag from a GitHub repository using the GitHub API. This guide shows you how to fetch tags and filter for stable releases in both Bash and PowerShell.

Note

This strategy assumes the repository tags follow the Semantic Versioning format.

Go (Golang) Language Cheatsheet

Comprehensive Go language cheatsheet, written to be something you can actually keep open while coding.

It includes core syntax, language rules, standard patterns, and essential “Go-isms”.

Conventional commit message examples

Conventional commit message examples from the Angular project.

Commit message format

──────────────────────────────────────────── 100 chars ────────────────────────────────────────────┤
<type>(<scope>): <summary>

GitHub workflow commands for message output

Use the :: syntax to run the workflow commands within your YAML file; these commands are then sent to the runner over stdout.

Message output

Debug

Prints a debug message to the log. You must create a secret named

Use Beyond Compare with Git

Install command line tools

You can install the command line tools from the File menu, Install command line tools.

/usr/local/bin/bcomp: Launches comparison and waits for it to complete.
/usr/local/bin/bcompare: Launches comparison and returns immediately.

Git config

title	subtitle	author	date	source
100 Little Ideas	A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works...	Morgan Housel	Feburary 20, 2020	https://collabfund.com/blog/100-little-ideas/

Depressive Realism: Depressed people have a more accurate view of the world because they're more realistic about how risky and fragile

Setup One: Buy a Mac if you don't have one.

Setup Two: Install Homebrew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Setup Three:

title	subtitle	author	date	source	snippet	gist	notoc
PowerShell Profile Paths	Shows the various PowerShell profile paths by platform and version.	Uzma Younas	September 13, 2023	https://adamtheautomator.com/powershell-profile-a-getting-started-guide/	https://jonlabelle.com/snippets/view/markdown/powershell-profile-paths	https://gist.github.com/jonlabelle/f2a4fdd989dbfe59e444e0beaf07bcc9	false

Standalone SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) DevOps Tools

Author	Date	Source
Microsoft	October 26, 2022	Standalone SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) DevOps Tools

Standalone SSIS DevOps Tools provide a set of executables to do SSIS CICD tasks. Without the dependency on the installation of Visual Studio or SSIS runtime, these executables can be easily integrated with any CICD platform. The executables provided are:

SSISBuild.exe: build SSIS projects in project deployment model or package deployment model.
SSISDeploy.exe: de

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# trim-screenshot.sh - Trim transparent padding from macOS terminal screenshots
	#
	# Removes excess transparent space from the top and bottom of PNG screenshots
	# while preserving the shadow effect. Designed for screenshots taken with
	# macOS screenshot tools that add shadow/padding.
	#
	# Used to trim my macOS Terminal screenshots for the pwsh-project project:
	# https://github.com/jonlabelle/pwsh-profile