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Git is a tool that employs a command line interface (CLI). For many beginner programmers, it’s the first one of this kind they learn. This alone could be confusing, but on top of that, Git’s default responses do not clearly visualize the state of you...

Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal. Quick installation available for Bash, Fish, ZSH, Ion, and Powershell.

Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets. Contribute to getsops/sops development by creating an account on GitHub.

A getting started guide for Authelia.

In this video, I’m setting up Authelia. It’s a very lightweight authentication service, which can be used to provide authentication to services which don’t natively support any form of authentication. I think this is a great choice for small scale homelab environments, as it’s simple to run and administer. Contents Video Authelia Configuration User File TLS Certificate Protected Service Example with Caddy Video Authelia I installed Authelia on an LXC container (Debian 12), and set it up with a dns name / AAAA record in public dns, and all the jazz required for normal HTTPS access.

I was doing my daily scan of Twitter the other day and came across this One of the commenters questioned how it was implemented, and there were a few follow up comments.  Below are my steps for get…

I’ll post this here, It might help someone in the future. Feedback is greatly appreciated. I use it with direnv on NixOS, It should work with nix on Linux or macOS. custom commands: pg-stop, pg-start, … flake.nix { description = "General Elixir Project Flake"; #source: 20221130; https://github.com/toraritte/shell.nixes/blob/f9af46639a9bb5fb22705ebdfd25783866e22c0f/elixir-phoenix-postgres/shell.nix #source: 20221130; https://github.com/webuhu/elixir_nix_example inputs = { nixpkg...

1. My Caddy version (V2 beta 14): 2. How I run Caddy: I use the systemd service template mentioned in the documentation. My Caddyfile looks like this: samvanderkris.xyz, www.samvanderkris.xyz { reverse_proxy * unix:/run/gunicorn.sock root /static /home/sam/samvanderkris header / Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload" } a. System environment: Ubuntu server 19.10, caddy is running as a systemd service. The reverse proxy is supposed to...

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In this chapter of bash beginner series, you'll learn about using if-else, nested if else and case statements in bash scripts.

Normal filesystem images can be easily mounted: mount system.img /mnt Examined, and modified. But when I try this with a Raspberry Pi system image (e.g. raspbian), I get: mount: unknown filesys...

With the release of Apple silicon, the adoption of ARM-based CPUs is surging. Many developers are facing a new challenge: compiling their software for ARM-based CPUs. And it’s not just about the binar

When you need low-level Linux data copying, there's one tool that never fails: the dd command. Here's how to use dd.

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Getting your development environment setup with Elixir doesn't have to be hard. Here's a quick guide to getting started.

Learn how to call a script from inside another script and compare the pros and cons of the different ways to do this.

How to setup Nginx as a web server for any backend programming language

You'll often see Docker described as the runtime for modern apps using microservice architectures. Here's how to use containers as the runtime for all of your applications.

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Learn to install Distrobox on Debian 12 with ease. Click for a step-by-step guide and enhance your Linux experience today!

is there a way to use exiftool command on all files with specific extensions inside a folder? E.g. exiftool -overwrite_original -all= *.jpg *.png *.jpeg The problem of the command above is that it

This article explains how to set up Portainer with automatic HTTPS certificates (via Caddy) and OAuth single sign-on (via Authelia).

With a versatile key management system and access to several public key directories, GPG is a must-have for security-minded Linux users.