Encrypting messages with age (alternative to PGP)
age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library.
It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
Generally we are happy with GPG for encrypting emails. In case you are not happy with the CLI of GnuPG, this might be a tool you can use under the hood for encryption.
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Bookmarklet to generate a commit message with Pivotal Tracker story ID and title
For clarity and traceability, your commit messages should include the ID and title of the Pivotal Tracker story you're working on. For example:
[#12345] Add Google Maps to user profiles
Optional further commit messages in the body
Al...
Git: How to stash with a custom message
If you say git stash, your stashed changes will be identified with an automatically generated message:
$ git stash
Saved working directory and index state WIP on master: 77af0df Merge branch 'production'
While this is okay to temporari...
Solve issues with Samsung TV as computer screen
We have a big flat screen TV (Samsung LE46c650l1kxxu) in our conference room. Configuring it properly, we were encountering some issues.
This is a list of issues, providing a solution to each.
No sound with DVI/HDMI and separate audio
Ther...
How to fix "Exit with code 1 due to network error: ProtocolUnknownError" with wkhtmltopdf
New versions of wkhtmltopdf dissallow file:// URLs by default. You can allow them by passing --enable-local-file-access.
If you are using PDFKit, set the option
PDFKit.configure do |config|
config.default_options = {
enable_loc...
Savon testing: How to expect any message
When using Savon to connect a SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper to mock requests in your tests as described in their documentation.
When sending a message body, th...
How to communicate between processes in Ruby with sockets
In Ruby you can communicate between processes with sockets. This might be helpful in tests that validate parallel executions or custom finalization logic after the garbage collector. Here is an example how such an communication will look like:
`...
Bookmarklet to generate a commit message for an issue in Linear.app
Your commit messages should include the ID of the issue your code belongs to.
Our preferred syntax prefixes the issue title with its ID in brackets, e.g. [FOO-123] Avatars for users.
Here is how to generate that from an issue in Linear.
Add a n...
Shell script to generate a Git commit with Pivotal Tracker story ID and title
We usually generate our commit messages from Pivotal Tracker IDs and titles, like
[#15775609] Index view for conflicts
The geordi command commit automates this. (See: [Pretty Commit messages via geord...
How to let passenger restart after deployment with capistrano
Phusion Passenger changed the way how it gets restarted several times. Through the project's history, these all were valid:
touch tmp/restart.txtsudo passenger-config restart-app /path/to/app-
passenger-config restart-app /path/to/app...
How to employ and run your tests with parallel_tests to speed up test execution
When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
One easy way to speed up your test execution is to use the parallel_tests gem.
It comes along with some ...