Metaprogramming in Swift, and the issue with Process and relative paths
Find out why your Swift CLI tool isn't capable of dealing with relative paths, and how to solve it!
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From a base64 API Key to a json file, in bash, on macOS
While working on a client's app's CI pipeline, I needed to use an API key. However, it was stored as a base64 environment variable, when the tool I needed to use required it to be plaintext in a JSON file. Fun times.
Escape a newline in bash on macOS
While setting up a new step for a client's CI pipeline on a macOS agent, I needed to export an API key containing line breaks to a JSON file. Meaning I had to escape line breaks, in bash, on macOS. Turns out, it's not as easy as it sounds. Who would've guessed?