Security Building a pwned passwords extension for pass Over the last couple of weeks I've built a pass-pwned extension for pass that allows you to check if your passwords have been compromised in a security breach. This uses the Pwned Passwords API and builds on the pwnedpasswords.sh [https://www.jamesridgway.co.uk/blog/pwnedpasswords-
Security pwnedpasswords.sh - a bash script for searching Troy Hunt's pwnedpasswords A very simple bash script for searching Troy Hunt's pwnedpasswords. Pwned Passwords A few days ago Troy Hunt released a V2 update to Pwned Passwords. Pwned Passwords is a service that allows you to check if your passwords have been leaked in security breaches. You can do this
Continuous Integration Re-ordering environments in Bamboo deployment projects In Atlassian's Bamboo you can re-order the environments in a deployment project by clicking Edit, Actions and then Move Up or Move Down. When you've got a lot of environments, trying to re-order them takes a long time and it's very monotonous.
Gnome 3 Slim application title bars for Gnome 3 The appearance of windows in Gnome can be tweaked by applying custom CSS. Here is a hack for slimming down the height of application title bars. Before Gnome title bars are fairly chunky when you compare them to what you get in other environments such as Cinnamon, Unity or macOS.
Ubuntu List SSH hosts from your SSH config Use an alias to quickly list all SSH hosts defined in your SSH config. I use an SSH config file to manage the details of all the SSH hosts I connect to. Sometimes I need to audit the hosts in my SSH config. This can be done using the following:
Continuous Integration Dotfiles with GitHub, Travis CI and Docker Most of us use dotfiles to personalise our systems - and I'm no different. I've recently taken to automating away my management and testing of dotfiles by using GitHub, Travis CI and Docker. Within the last year I finally got bored of manually copying and applying dotfiles
Docker Optimising MongoDB for test environments Recently I wanted to optimise the performance of MongoDB for test and development environments where persistent data storage and logging isn't important. I also wanted a solution that was easy to deploy and maintain across multiple development machines. Although I haven't officially benchmarked my performance testing
