> use a CSS manipulator such that my prod console is in a bright-freaking-red Chrome window with a red background. Blue for test, green for dev
Ha, I do the same thing. I learned about this from a previous job I had where prod/test webapps were functionally similar but had obnoxious coloring in the header. Very effective.
Visual indications are so great, aren't they? I do it with terminals, too; prod servers get obnoxious red-background prompts. (Root terms on all my machines look different from unprivileged ones, too.)
Whether it's shell literally, or "shell" as in, the window from which you ultimately perform shell-like things, there's still a place you perform these tasks and knowing when you are in simulation or actual is an important state to track.
Any advice/tutorials on how to set this up? Ideally I'd like just that ssh session to change the text to red for prod boxes but then go back to my normal iTerm theme after exit...
Any links to how to do this? My google-fu seems to be failing me. I'm assuming you somehow set things up so it automatically detects the page / content (based on the environment name or instance tags??) and changes the background?
One way to do this is to look at the "awsc-login-display-name-account" div, which contains your account ID. You can then alter the look of the page (perhaps making the top header bright red) depending on which account ID is in use.
Ha, I do the same thing. I learned about this from a previous job I had where prod/test webapps were functionally similar but had obnoxious coloring in the header. Very effective.