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Posted 2026-02-18

Globbing files to pass to CLI command options

I've been using Helm recently as part of a new product offering, and as a way to deploy my various websites. Helm allows providing values to the templates in a Helm chart via one or more values files, which are provided via the option -f. It's often useful to break these into several files, so you can do things like cover common values, and then environment- or namespace-specific values.

However, the -f option only accepts a single value, and doesn't recognize globs.

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Posted 2025-11-17

From zsh to fish

I'm a longtime zsh user. A colleague introduced me to it in 2009, and I was an instant convert, if nothing else than for directory aliases and simpler $PATH management. Within a couple of years, I discovered oh-my-zsh, which put my shell on steroids, giving me a ton of completion capabilities, better prompts, and more.

But a few years ago, I started noticing that my shell load times were getting worse and worse. At that time, I discovered I could easily switch to vanilla zsh with zplug managing a small number of plugins I used (nvm, fzf, and a few others). I also discovered starship, which gave me more prompt options, with faster startup times.

And yet...