A dessert trolley full of cakes and fruit

๐Ÿ’ป Dessert Resources ๐Ÿงฎ ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป โœจ

Again we are back to naming things, the new network device naming policy is very sweetโ€ฆ ...

October 22, 2023 ยท 1 min ยท Jas
Elaborate looking key on an old leather desk blotter

๐Ÿ’ป AGE Authenticated Encryption to replace GPG/PGP โ›“ ๐Ÿ” ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

This page is about using AGE to replace GPG/PGP for encryption. ...

March 26, 2023 ยท 3 min ยท Jas
Raspberry Pi header with power wires

๐Ÿ’ป Yocto Linux build for Raspberry Pi 4 ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿฅง ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

Letโ€™s build our own Linux operating system for a Raspberry Pi 4 First we need a big build box, something 16 VPC and 32GB RAM from AWS should do the trick. I like this machine: c4.4xlarge Set up the development environment sudo apt update && sudo apt -qy dist-upgrade && sudo apt -qy install gawk wget git diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev xterm sed cvs subversion coreutils texi2html docbook-utils python-pysqlite2 help2man desktop-file-utils libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev mercurial autoconf automake groff curl lzop asciidoc u-boot-tools cpio sudo rsync linux-headers-$(uname -r) locales Additional requirements:...

January 27, 2023 ยท 3 min ยท Jas
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๐Ÿ’ป Git and GitHub Setup 2023 ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

My 2023 git and GitHub setup guide. ...

January 11, 2023 ยท 3 min ยท Jas
A hung MacoS installer

๐Ÿ’ป MacOS installer hung with 'Waiting for other installations to complete' ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿ”ฎ ๐Ÿ

For reasons I needed to test a set of osquery rules lately, so I downloaded the official package from https://osquery.io and set about running the installer. For some reason the installation got stuck at a message โ€˜Waiting for other installation to completeโ€™. The installer hangs for a long time, so I explored my options to unblock the installer. ...

November 9, 2022 ยท 3 min ยท Jas
The functions of the DevSecOps team

๐Ÿ’ป What is DevSecOps? ๐Ÿ” ๐Ÿงฐ ๐Ÿ’ป

What is DevSecOps, and how is it different to the more traditional DevOps team you are used to working with? ...

September 11, 2022 ยท 4 min ยท Jas
The http header functions list

๐Ÿ’ป CRUD Put vs Patch ๐Ÿ“ โŒ ๐Ÿงฐ

Should we use the http header PUT or PATCH when updating a record in a CRUD system? ...

August 23, 2022 ยท 2 min ยท Jas
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๐Ÿ’ป Local Git init and GitHub setup ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

A quick how-to guide to get your local git init project onto GitHub. ...

August 10, 2022 ยท 3 min ยท Jas
An old Monopoly board

๐Ÿ’ป Naming Resources ๐Ÿงฎ ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป โœจ

And we are back to naming things, this is my latest network device naming policyโ€ฆ ...

March 31, 2022 ยท 1 min ยท Jas
Raspberry Pi header with power wires

๐Ÿ’ป OpenBSD 6.9 on Raspberry Pi 4 ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿฅง ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

I wondered if I could use my Raspberry Pi 4 as a gateway device to shape and filter my network traffic. It only has one NIC, but OpenBSD supports many USB-NIC devices out of the box. Letโ€™s see how successful this idea is. Update firmware on Raspberry Pi 4 Instructions here: https://github.com/AshyIsMe/openbsd-rpi4 Installing OpenBSD 6.9 on Raspberry Pi 4 Download and checksum install69.img from the OpenBSD 6.9 FTP site. Put the install69....

March 30, 2022 ยท 4 min ยท Jas