Nevertheless, Sandra Coded

sndrx — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:58:16 +0000

Well hello, my dearest community!

I've been struggling with what I'm supposed to do with my future since I was a little kid.

Everyone was asking me: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Well, deep down in my little heart I wanted to be an artist.
I used to sketch and doodle and paint a lot. Growing up I found myself creating mini architectural schemes and I really wanted to follow that career until....my parents didn't really support me and I followed the very next thing that I love; that's when I've got completely lost into the mathematics field!

My classmate and I got used to be almost the only girls that went to math competitions and enjoyed solving math problems and reading math articles the entire day.

It was all fun and pleasing until I had to decide my real path in life: "where are you going for college and what major will you pick?"

Uh, oh.. I was brave enough to pick informatics (math was not an option since I've got not support for that either).
Moving to another city and learning how to code (all by myself, because college didn't help; this is another story for another time), meeting new people, all these things created opportunities; I've got my first internship!
And that's how my developer journey began.

All in all, now I'm still an artist.
I strongly believe that coding, communicating with clients, creating a design, creating an algorithm, everything we all do everyday, that's pure art.

Please keep being an artist!

How to set up an SSH key and use it for GitLab

sndrx — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:43:53 +0000

Hello, everybody!

I got into another project about 3 months ago and almost everything was new to me (GrapheneDB, NodeJS, React and Redux, ESLint rules, packages etc.). The only thing I knew how to use back then was JavaScript.

Obviously, the project set up was new to me as well. I never used VS Code before, neither GitLab or Heroku, so I didn't know some of the basic rules at the beginning. I took notes but even with the notes under my nose, I couldn't figure out how am I supposed to connect to GitLab using my SSH key when my laptop died last week.

I figured it out, in the end!
....but I had to connect information from two or three articles.

I think that if I put it all together here, it will be easier for someone else that encounters the same issue or, hell, it would be easier for me too to remember these things.

This is how I managed to create a SSH key and connect to my GitLab account using that key:

1) Open Git Bash (Download and Install Git Bash; You can use any *nix based command prompt).

2) Type

 cd ~/.ssh

This will take you to the root directory for Git (Likely C:\Users[YOUR-USER-NAME].ssh\ on Windows).

3) In the .ssh folder you should find these two files: id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. These files tell the computer how to communicate with GitHub, BitBucket, or any other Git based service.

Those files were obviously missing from my computer so I had to create them.

 ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com"

Type this to create those two files

Once you entered that command, you will get a few more questions:

Enter file in which to save the key (/home/demo/.ssh/id_rsa):

You can press enter here, saving the file to the user home (in this case, my example user is called demo).

Then this will be shown:

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):

The only downside, of course, to having a passphrase, is then having to type it in each time you use the key pair. I suggest you to use a passphrase though, due to security concerns.

In the end, the entire process looks like this:

Enter file in which to save the key (/home/demo/.ssh/id_rsa): 
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /home/demo/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/demo/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
4a:dd:0a:c6:35:4e:3f:ed:27:38:8c:74:44:4d:93:67 demo@a
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|          .oo.   |
|         .  o.E  |
|        + .  o   |
|     . = = .     |
|      = S = .    |
|     o + = +     |
|      . o + o .  |
|           . o   |
|                 |
+-----------------+

The public key is now located in /home/demo/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The private key (identification) is now located in /home/demo/.ssh/id_rsa.

4) Copying the public key to GitLab

Go and open the id_rsa.pub file (you can use any text editor you want).
Copy the entire content of that file and then open https://gitlab.com/profile/keys.

Paste the content you copied from id_rsa.pub in the Key input (don't add extra spaces or characters).

Give your key a descriptive name and then Add the key.

5) Try to git clone or git push.

I really hope this will help someone because this article is what I needed last week when I couldn't put things together and all seemed to be way harder than it actually is.

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Nevertheless, Sandra Coded

How to set up an SSH key and use it for GitLab

Hello, everybody!