In praise of opinionated frameworks
It might appear that the tech industry tends to gravitate towards tools, languages and frameworks that are highly flexible by design. Said technologies will...
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A simple and effective Bash prompt for developers
In Bash I use a very basic prompt which is simple and effective. It consists only of the time, path, and git branch.
How quantum computers break our security, and what’s being done about it
As a computing end user, I’ve been vaguely aware of quantum computing on the horizon, but haven’t been aware regarding its effect on us. To that end I decide...
Syncing the login wallpaper with the desktop wallpaper on Ubuntu 20.04
In Ubuntu 20.04, the background image that you set for your desktop doesn’t appear on the login screen. There isn’t a way to manage the login screen backgro...
Smashtest Tutorial
Smashtest is a DSL on top of Selenium that makes reading and writing tests easy. It focuses on improving productivity with a lot of helpful features, it can...
How to use KeepassXC to serve SSH keys to WSL2 and Ubuntu
I have previously shown how to serve keys to WSL1, here I’ll be going over the method to do it for WSL2.
Host your API Gateway documentation in API Gateway
It’s possible to host your OpenAPI (Swagger) JSON as well the UI from within API Gateway itself, without needing an S3 bucket or any additional infrastructur...
Raspberry Pi: Simple Waveshare e-paper dashboard with weather and calendar
I have created a simple, DIY e-paper dashboard setup that displays the weather and calendar information. It’s minimal, and doesn’t require a lot of power, s...
Why the F**k won’t you build?
To the tune of Go the Fuck to Sleep