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As mentioned in Export timed query results from SQL*Plus, I have to SSH into an ubuntu box in order to run queries. Sometimes these queries take a while, so if my SSH connection times out, I’m out of luck.

In some of our selenium tests, we download a PDF file generated by our app and then inspect it. This works fine locally since the app URL is http. But in our CI environment, everything is over https. So we had to do some tweaking before calling FileUtils.copyURLToFile. Below is a stripped down version of our solution:

Sometimes the port you need is already used by another process. To find the offending process:

Need to parse a URL in your Hugo templates? Thanks to the urls.Parse function, you don’t have to do a bunch of string manipulation. Here’s a quick example.

Hugo has built-in syntax highlighting, provided by Chroma. To use it, you just need 2 lines in your config.toml file: