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Adding a Month Segment to claude-powerline

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600

Adding a Month Segment to claude-powerline

I use claude-powerline for my Claude Code statusline. It’s got a today segment that shows spend since midnight, which is great until you actually want to know where you stand for the month. “Today” resets every night and tells you nothing about the bigger picture. So I sent a PR: Owloops/claude-powerline#112.

What it adds

A new month segment, opt-in, that tracks total cost/tokens for the current calendar month. It reuses the same local-transcript aggregation and caching the today segment already had, so no network calls, nothing new to trust.

New Release: github-pokemon v1.4.1

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600

New Release: github-pokemon v1.4.1

I’m excited to announce the latest release of github-pokemon, version v1.4.1!

github-pokemon is a Go-based command-line tool I built to efficiently manage multiple GitHub repositories within an organization. “Gotta catch ’em all!” Its primary purpose is to automate the process of cloning all non-archived repositories and keeping them updated by fetching remote tracking branches.

Key Features

Bulk Operations: Quickly clones or updates all repositories in a specified GitHub organization.
Parallel Processing: Uses parallel workers (defaulting to 5) to speed up operations.
Safe Updates: Only updates remote tracking branches and never modifies local working directories or branches.
Authentication: Supports GitHub Personal Access Tokens (via GITHUB_TOKEN) for API access and SSH keys for Git operations.

You can grab the latest pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows over on the GitHub Releases page.

action-hugo

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:11:39 -0700

action-hugo v0.123.7

Today I wrote the first post to my blog in a LONG time. I did of course update the entire pipeline to make it happen. Looks like the last time my build script for the action-hugo repo ran was three years ago… oh my. So some updates were of course needed. Now they are done.

If you are interested in posting your blog easily with Hugo using GitHub Actions, well now you have another choice. Enjoy!

Starting Blogumentation

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0600

Starting Blogumentation

Let’s be real. I am not a great example of writing regularly. Or even occasionally. I am out right terrible at it. However, I was recently listening to an episode of Changelog & Friends podcast where Jamie Tanna (who has a website) was talking about Blogumentation and this rang true with me. Among many other things in the podcast episode. Go listen, it is great.

So what? I am going to take a stab at using this blog as my own blogumentation again. Tracking the things I do, the things I learn, and making a small public space to share those things as needed.

Deadpool: Stackoverflow Developer Stories

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:18:00 -0600

Back in 2016 Stack Overflow tested a few things that were super awesome, at first glance, but like lots of technology quickly faded into obscurity.

One of those tests, was Developer Stories. Developer Stories was to be a “way we envision you showcasing every aspect of your developer identity.” as Stack Overflow put it in their initial announcement. I ran out and filled out my developer story, which is now being discontinued. Probably, for obvious reasons too. I created mine in 2016, and here it is 6 years later, and I have been with 3 different companies, done hundreds of interesting things, but the content of my story is stale (much like this blog). So it is being retired.

Simple Invoice

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 03 May 2021 09:31:01 -0600

My son, Isaac, has started a lawn service. To help him track who has paid, and who is outstanding I over-engineered a spreadsheet for him. Behold!

Customers The first sheet is a simple spreadsheet of customer data:

Customer	Address	Phone	Size	Price	Day	Notes
John Doe	123 Any Street	801-555-0011	Small, Medium, Large	$7	Thursday	Notes about last mowing

Inventory For lack of better name this is a sheet for tracking which jobs have been completed.

OpenSSL Certificate Authority

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:28:46 -0600

Over the years I have often come across a moment or two when I needed to have self-signed certificate authority. Well, a few years ago I stumbled across this lovely tutorial and explanation by Jamie Nguyen. Please, use this, and all credit to Jamie.

https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/

TIL: GitHub Action setup-go

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:49:14 -0700

If you are developing and running workflows on GitHub using Golang, and the recent release of Golang 1.16 had features you want or need, then you might want to know about this GitHub Action setup-go.

Essentially the way it works is that ubuntu-latest on GitHub has the last three major versions of Golang in the cache, but you have to properly switch between them. setup-go does that for you, and if you are using a version of Golang that doesn’t come pre-installed in the cache, it will install it for you. This is quite handy, and super easy to use:

Comments with Mastodon

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:43:45 -0700

If you aren’t aware, this blog is created using Hugo. This means this blog is essentially just static files being served by a static web engine. It makes it light, and simply to host/deploy. One thing it makes it hard to do, is host comments, because comments are by nature dynamic (not static).

I came across the idea of using Mastodon a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. This allows “dynamic” comments, without me having to add a comment engine to my blog. Yay! Let’s do it!

Home Storage Upgrade Plan

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:41:00 -0700

Back in 2019 I built a small storage server for my home needs. Basically I store my music, movies, ebooks, and image collections here, enabling the use of DLNA to watch them on my TVs throughout the house.

Just the other day, I finally got the notice that I am running low on space. To be clear that threshold is any remaining space under 1TB. As of this writing I am down to 1020.7GB of storage space left on this single server. Time to plan for expanding my storage!

PoC||GTFO Repo Update

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:25:20 -0700

PoC||GTFO

If you are unfamiliar with the International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The F*ck Out (my edit) then I encourage you, dear reader, to become familiar with it. It is a great read by hackers for hackers.

Long story short

One thing geeks like myself have taken to doing, is preserving the history of the internet by replicating information to sites and servers with better control. That is why I have created this repo, which automatically updates daily (thanks Github Workflows!)

Github action-hugo Updated

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:10:07 -0700

Happy to announce that my Github Action utahcon/action-hugo has been updated to now support Hugo Modules. This change basically means there is now an on-board implementation of Golang, and git. Nothing too scary. Didn’t increase build times by too much, nor does it impact the way you use the action, except that it now support Modules. Enjoy!

Link: utahcon/action-hugo:v0.80.0

Github action-scp updated for 2021

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:29:58 -0700

2021 Had Different Ideas

Welcome to 2021, I decided to post about my plans to blog a bit more in 2021, but the internet gods had conspired against me and made my Github Action action-scp fail. So I started into fixing it. If you see this blog post, it is indeed fixed.

What happened?

No clue, but something on the Github side of things changed in a way that I was starting to fail host key verification, even though it specifically uses StrictHostKeyChecking=no. What to do? Play around.

New Year New Goals

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:50:01 -0700

A New Year

It has been a rough one, not for me personally, I actually can’t complain about 2020 too much. Aside from being locked in closer quarters than normal with my kids, the year was overly meh. I will go count my blessings and keep at it.

New Goals

Aside from the normal weight loss, education, etc. goals, I am also committing, once again to 52 posts on this blog this year. I am not going to make any commitment to the content of these posts, but I will generally try to keep them tied (at least in general) to tech and my thoughts on tech. Hopefully I will get the chance to sprinkle in some cloudy stuff, and some Golang stuff as I go. For now, I will just say, at least 1 post per week (yeah, I realize I already missed a week, I’ll make it up).

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:45:50 -0600

I am proud to announce that I have completed my first Microsoft Azure Certification.

To see more of my certifications checkout the certifications page.

2020 09 17_action Hugo Is Live

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:24:44 -0600

Well it is working if you are seeing this. More on that later.

Accessing Multiple CodeCommit Repos

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:16:55 -0600

AWS provides a handy Git based repository to their customers called CodeCommit. Accessing the repository is easy enough, upload your SSH Key to the AWS Console, and then add CodeCommit to your SSH configuration:

# ~/.ssh/config
Host git-codecommit.*.amazonaws.com
User USER1EXAMPLEARN1
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/USER1EXAMPLEARN1_rsa

This is wonderful until you need to access more than one AWS Account’s CodeCommit repo. How do you identify between two different AWS Account repos that use the same URL? You update your SSH configuration like this:

Github Actions Worked

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:32:18 -0600

This is a temporary post to let me know that my Github Actions are functional. Yay me!

AWS Boto3 Documentation Redirect

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 08:20:18 -0600

Maybe you are lazy like I am, but when I want to read the Boto3 documentation I just open my browser, and in the omnibar I type boto3 and slap Enter; however, this results in my browser auto-filling the URL bar with https://boto3.amazonaws.com and since the AWS guys are too lazy to add a redirect there, I have created a simple User Script that does exactly that, it just redirects the browser to the correct link https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html

Find all EC2 Instances using in-house AMIs

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:18:06 -0600

Building off my last post GNU Parallel and AWS CLI, today I used parallel with more AWS to get a count of all AMIs being used in my infrastructure using any in-house AMI (non-Amazon, non-Marketplace).

The Problem

I need to know how many of my instances are running Chef clients. Conveniently we only run Chef client on instances that use images we have created in-house. So I can limit my search. While I could have done this with a well thought out one-liner I thought it would be more usable as a bash script.

GNU Parallel and AWS CLI

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Tue, 12 May 2020 10:49:00 -0600

We all know that the GUI/Console for AWS is sadly slow and cumbersome to use. That’s why they created the CLI and SDK tools to let impatient people do more work in less time. However, the CLI and SDK are also slow because well, processing time takes for ever sometimes. So for the truly impatient isn’t it nice that you can use GNU Parallel to complete more work in less time? Let me show you an example.

AWS IAM Scan for Role Name

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Fri, 08 May 2020 11:04:20 -0600

Scan AWS Account for IAM Role

If you are like me you happen to work with ALZs with LOTS of accounts. Jumping into each one to verify a role exists, or doesn’t it quite tedious. So here I have a simple “one-liner” that loops through your accounts and looks for the existence of a role (by partial lookup).

One-liner

for role in $(cat ~/.aws/credentials | grep devopsadmin | cut -d '[' -f2 | cut -d ']' -f1 | grep -v ^role_arn); do echo $role; aws --profile $role iam list-roles | jq -r ".Roles[].RoleName" | grep CMK; done

Breakdown

First we tell bash to list grab our AWS Credentials file, which is an INI that we store the profile names in as [ProfileName], in my case I only care for the names containing devopsadmin. The cut is to trim the [ & ] off the line, and finally the grep -v skips any lines that start with role_arn as these aren’t needed (this time).

AWS Backup Delete Script

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Sun, 03 May 2020 14:26:07 -0600

Delete AWS Backup artifacts

AWS Backup is a great utility, but when you are cleaning up an account it takes a long time to remove all the backup artifacts by hand in the console. So instead I present this one-liner

Single Region

$ aws --region us-east-1 backup list-recovery-points-by-backup-vault --backup-vault-name default | jq '.RecoveryPoints' | jq -c -r '.[].RecoveryPointArn' | xargs --max-lines=1 aws --region us-east-1 backup delete-recovery-point --backup-vault-name default --recovery-point-arn

Multiple Regions

$ regions=us-east-1,us-west-2; for region in $regions; do aws --region ${region} backup list-recovery-points-by-backup-vault --backup-vault-name default | jq '.RecoveryPoints' | jq -c -r '.[].RecoveryPointArn' | xargs --max-lines=1 aws --region ${region} backup delete-recovery-point --backup-vault-name default --recovery-point-arn; done

Nginx + SSL/TLS through Let's Encrypt

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:14:34 -0600

Let’s Encrypt + Nginx is simple easy!

Look, it’s 2020, and if your site isn’t provided under SSL/TLS then you are behind even the least sophisticated scammers out there.

Here is a quick walk through on using certbot from Let’s Encrypt, that provides easy to acquire, and even renew your certificates if you’re using Nginx.

NOTE: These directions are geared toward Fedora users, but this is literally just as easy on Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, etc.

Certifications Updated

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Updated the dev blog with my certifications.

Utahcon.dev 2020 is a go!

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Man 2020 has been a rocky start to say the least! However, I am finally getting some time to do the things around my lab that just need to be done. This little project is one of those things.

What is this project?

For years I have wanted to separate out the aspects of my life, to compartmentalize. I have lots of personal things I want to accomplish, but I don’t want to muddy a personal site with professional journals and tech jargon. So I am declaring utahcon.dev the Development Blog, more or less.

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Utahcon - About

utahcon@utahcon.com (Adam Barrett) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

My name is Adam Barrett. I’m currently a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with Pura. I have been involved with IT since graduating from high school in 1999, with some notable stops at:

Overstock.com
Zulily.com
Progrexion
Cloud Technology Partners
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Pura

This site is dedicated to the projects I am working on in the public. I also use this space to chronicle my adventures in my professional career, including live streaming code development, conference talks and reviews, as well as general tech conversation. I can be found on a number of communication platforms including but not limited to: