Older writing and notes.
In software development, professionals often tackle complex problems that require intricate solutions. However, the key to building reliable software systems lies in simplicity. A clear and uncomplicated approach to d...
Often I want to find out how long a shell command took to either benchmark it or figure out how expensive it would be to run it multiple times.
Blackboard Collaborate lecture recordings don't have a button to adjust the playback speed. I wrote a simple bookmarklet to achieve this instead.
i3 is a tiling window manager for Linux/BSD targeted at advanced users and developers. The interface is clean and minimal but that belies the powerful configuration and extensibility underneath.
I've written a small .NET crypto library 'SecretBox' for symmetric key encryption using the Gimli permutation.
Protecting GitHub repos, some good crypto blogs, programming languages for graphic designers and more ...
Parallel programming with Python, top 10 Android terminal commands, cyber security topics and more ...
The Orange Juice Test, database scaling techniques, and the flux design pattern.
Reference of commands to encrypt a file with a password using OpenSSL.
Reference of commands to create a self signed RSA certificate with OpenSSL
How to repeat a SQL command multiple times
On most Linux distributions you configure DNS nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf. However in recent versions of Ubuntu that changed with the introduction of Netplan.
What Windows shell aliases are and how to use them.
How to set and unset an alias in bash
How to find regex matches using PowerShell
A hidden gem in the Chrome dev tools is the color picker.
How to create a GPG key, configure git to use it, and how to set up GitHub and GitLab so your commits appear as verified.
How to mirror a website using wget and an open source GUI to achieve the same thing.
How to easily copy values to the clipboard, and how to pretty print objects and collections.
The default color scheme for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is not the most readable. Thankfully a tool exists that can change the default color scheme to something more legible.
Public DNS resolvers, WSL, and how to make colors more legible in the Windows CMD.
A common style applied to HTML tables with lots of data is to make them striped, i.e. set the background color of alternate rows. This is easy to do when each tr represents an individual row to be striped, but if you...
If you have Visual Studio Code then you have a built in Markdown editor ...
How to enter passwords securely in Powershell and how to store and retrieve them in an encrypted file.
The cmatrix and sl programs will add a bit of fun to your Linux shell.
Suppose you want to copy the output of a Powershell command to the clipboard. Instead of making a mess of selecting the output in the terminal and copying, just pipe the output to clip.
How to set up DNSCrypt on DDWRT using the public OpenDNS resolver.