Bye G***le, Hi Plausible - Analytics with a clear conscience
So you have a web page, or maybe even a bunch of pages, and you are interested to optimize them, either for better user experience, more sales revenue, or yo...
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2022
#AutomaticAlley #3 - Safe and easy AWS with 2FA and scripted login
And here is the third in the series “AutomaticAlley” where I share some tips, tricks, bits and bites to make day to day life easier. Especially for us nerds ...
How to learn new skills, without magic promises
“Professor”, my colleague asks me jokingly, “Why don’t you write a blog about how I can learn Javascript.” That got me thinking, since I am eternally learni...
Terminal file managers and my vifm setup
Another blog about some nice tools and tricks to make life easier. This time let’s look at terminal managers, why would we use them ? And I’ll dive into my s...
#AutomaticAlley #2 - FZF and Ripgrep: fuzzy find files infuriatingly fast!
E voila: the second in the series, doubtfully dubbed #AutomaticAlley. It’s where I share small bits and bites of scripts and other tiny tricks to automate aw...
Angular - A minimalistic approach to runtime configurations in docker containers
Build your Angular app, run it inside a container and move it across environments. How do we manage our runtime configurations?
#AutomaticAlley - Kill any program anytime with ease
This is the first in a series to come, doubtfully dubbed #AutomaticAlley. It’s where I will share small bits and bites of scripts and other tiny tricks to au...
Setup SOPS with AWS KMS and Terraform to encrypt your secrets in git
In this post we’ll explore Mozilla SOPS to manage configuration secrets.
How to use keepass programmatically with typescript
Even though we all know keeping user credentials in our code is bad (right ?) … sometimes it still happens. For instance when we write our automated tests, a...
Is there creativity in coding?
“But you are such a creative person, why?”, is a comment I get often (in variations of course) when I say I work in software development. I am a trained musi...
2021
Taint resources in terraform cloud project
So after working with terraform you feel confident. Now what ? Well you set up a terraform cloud account, put your terraform code in git and import it there ...
Security for peace of mind
So this should be a friendly reminder for you and for me and … to think about the risks associated with your passwords, and login methods. Of course we all ...
An easy approach to debugging IAM policies on AWS
There are tons of tutorials with screenshots all over the place explaning the various setups to get started with AWS. How do you set up an EC2 instance, or h...