Well, if you found this page and are interessed in pass, you must already have your reasons to look into password managers. For me, it's a basic concept: Use password only once. Don't (ever) reuse passwords or passphrases for other services. If one service gets compromised, you won't automatically have to worry about your other services. This makes remembering passwords a bitch, especially if you don't iterate through numbers of your favorite, easy-to-guess, passwords. Speaking of which, yes, there are tools out there, that can generate very good dictionaries based on a bit of social engineering. So you really should use generated passwords.
Journal entry from 20 August 1999, introducing his new blog about The Lord of the Rings.
Perché niente è impossibile da capire… Se lo spieghi bene !
Blog Chris Siebenmann is a Unix sysadmin who now works at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
The web platform is the delivery mechanism of choice for a ton of software these days, either through the web browser itself or through Electron, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for a good old fashioned straight-up desktop application in the picture.
Fortunately, it’s easier than ever to write a usable, pretty, and performant desktop app, using my language of choice (Rust) and the wildly successful cross-platform GUI framework GTK.
GUI prototyped using Glade.
We often have to write code using permissive programming languages like C and C++. They tend to generate hard-to-debug problems that can crash your applications. Thankfully, many compilers offer “sanitizers”. I discussed them in my post No more leaks with sanitize flags in gcc and clang. I strongly encourage the use of sanitizers as I think it is the modern way to write C and C++. When many people describe how impossibly difficult it is to build good software in C and C++, they often think about old-school bare metal C and C++ where the code do all sorts of mysterious things without any protection. Then they feel compelled to run their code in a debugger and to manually run through it. You should not write code this way! Get some tools! Sanitizers can catch undefined behaviour, memory leaks, buffer overflows, data races, and so forth.
Check out a cool project that leverages Stack Overflow Data and Google's Cloud AI to predict what tags would work best on Stack Overflow questions.
You’ve probably played with model trains, for instance with something like the Brio set shown below.1 And if you’ve built a layout with a model train set, you may well have wondered: is it possible for my train to use all the parts of my track?
These APIs, from niche but useful to just plain fun, should make any software developer smile. @Enterprisenxt
Rebuttal to the opinion of Christoph Buchal, Hans-Dieter Karl and Hans-Werner Sinn titled “Coal Engines, Wind Engines and Diesel Engines. What does the CO2 balance show?”
Britney Crystal Gallivan (born 1985) of Pomona, California, is best known for determining the maximum number of times that paper or other materials can be folded in half.
This is the 4th post in a series about migrating to functional programming. This week, I'll first implement the Dijkstra algorithm, then migrate the code to a more functional-friendly design. Dijkstra's algorithm allows to find the shortest path in any graph, weighted or not, directed or not. The only requirement is that weights must be positive.
If you have a digital audio device that can connect your guitar to a PC, here is some software you can use to record, edit and process the signal.
Learn about 5 interesting Linux tools that will help break your dependence on the GUI and keep you productive on the command line.
If you are a Linux sysadmin, you tend to spend a lot of time on the command line. Over the years I have learned to do much of my work without ever touching the mouse. Also, if I open a browser it is just too easy to be distracted. Social media, news articles, and funny cat videos all are designed to suck you in, and it works. In this countdown we will explore 5 things you can do from the command line to keep you productive and break your dependence on the GUI.
- Check the Weather on the Command Line
- Do Calculations On The Command Line (calculator)
- The Command Line Dictionary
- Google Search From the Command Line
- Spell Check on the Command Line
The type of organizing tools you use to plan your projects can make your work routine more efficient and improve your productivity. A project management application is an essential tool in some business environments. This week's Linux Picks and Pans takes a deep dive into some of the best project management software solutions available for the Linux desktop.
Firefox Send, send.firefox.com, is a free encrypted file transfer service that allows users to safely and simply share files from any browser.