Software Development

I often see how people make security decisions based on pure intuition. Can I store TOTP in my password manager? Should I use a local password manager or is a remote one OK? Is it OK to configure multiple second factors?

Since I have a degree in Information Security 🤓, I think I’ll try to clarify these questions by describing the underlying theory, so you’ll have a decision framework to make educated choices.

A brief overview of how this blog works under the hood.

If you’re developing for Tier 3 targets in Rust, you’re most likely using the nightly compiler. For me, this was not ideal, so here’s a sinful guide on how to switch to the stable version of the compiler.

I’ve been searching for an ultimate file hosting for quite some time and finally found it! Let’s go through this journey together.

Our goal is to find a file storage solution which is:

• Cheap
• Reliable
• Will be alive in 10 years if left unattended

It would be a dream, right?

Buying a proper webcamera can turn out pretty costly, so why not fetch your old camera from a cellar and plug it into your laptop? How hard can it be?

I have a modern LG TV connected to a PC via HDMI. I use this setup for coach-based gaming and watching movies. However, the latter has a major usability issue: you can’t just pause playback with a TV remote, you need a mouse or a keyboard nearby. Because of this I have to use a wireless mouse and keyboard, but there should be a better way of doing this, right?

This is a rant on An open letter to language designers: Kill your sacred cows post. Please read it first if you want to make any sense out of this.

I use two browsers in my daily life: Chromium for work-related stuff and Firefox for everything else. This helps me to keep a strict separation between these two worlds, including: logins, bookmarks, history, settings (e.g. proxy, synchronization), etc. Let’s see how to make a default browser switch automatically to the correct one.

Linux is a great OS, but its default behavior is usually optimized for servers. Since more and more developers use it as their main operating system, I thought that it would be nice to share several useful daemons that will make this experience a bit smoother.

Do you have work and personal emails? Ever wondered how to make Git automatically use the correct one? This simple trick will help enlarge you productivity x10!

I prefer to switch tabs in my browser with a mouse wheel and this is an important part of my workflow. It’s so much easier to shove a mouse pointer to the top of a screen and do a single scroll rather than reaching for a keyboard to press Crtl+PgUp/Down or hunting the desired tab with a cursor. Unfortunately it doesn’t work in Firefox by default… Let’s see if we can fix this!

I heard a lot of discussion around the “How to make money on opensource?” topic. This is something I don’t get completely, as at seems obvious, so I’ll dump my thoughts here.

GPG is a very complex tool. However, to sign git commits you only need a handful scope of it. This post will show you how to set up and manage your GPG keys with ease.

There is a yearly challenge named “Advent of Code” in which I took part this year . Here are some notes and analysis.

With the pandemic going on many tabletop role-playing parties migrated online, including ours. I’m a DM, so I struggled a lot with Roll20, trying to:

1. Quickly create encounters
2. Have minimal delays during the game
3. Provide good experience for players and me

Here I’m sharing what I’ve come up with so far.

Masks are a powerful feature of different graphics editors. Can we implement them in Godot engine similarly?