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Previewing markdown text in Visual Studio Code

Previewing markdown text in Visual Studio Code
While working recently on a markdown document in Visual Studio code I started searching for 3rd party apps to preview markdown text. I use the awesome bearapp for note taking and hoped that it offered real time mark down preview. Sadly it does not. They do however suggest using Marked2 for this purpose and this does work great but is a premium/paid option. If you are looking for a great free option and don’t need a deep feature set in your preview capabilities Visual Studio Code already offers a markdown preview…Right click on your markdown file in the project and select Open Preview.
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Terraform Validation Exception and role definitions with AWS

Introduction Terraform.io is a great scripting system for building systems as Code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service It has a number of great features though while working with some Terraform script trying to get an AWS Lambda function uploaded I was receiving a very unhelpful Validation Exception error message… Error: Error creating Lambda function: ValidationException: status code: 400, request id: a6df0378-63eb-4b7f-92c5-7a8217b5eaea Here is a focus on the AWS Lambda declaration block in Terraform code…
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Compiling all project blueprints in Unreal Engine

Currently in the UE4 editor there is no way to compile all blueprints in your project. You can compile blueprints individually but there is no in editor button to compile all blueprints. Unreal Engine does offer way to do this via command line however by way of Commandlets. Commandlets Commandlets are command line programs that run inside of the Unreal Engine environment. They are most often used to make bulk changes to content, iterate over content to get information about it, or as a unit testing mechanism.
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