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tools

A collection of 6 issues

A choice of gems

After years of working on Ruby on Rails projects, Sinatra projects, and other non-standard projects and libraries, Ruby developers tend to have strong preferences in their gems choices. Here is our shortlist and why we picked those, sorted by themes. Hopefully, that will help you pick and choose a good

Yubikey devices for SSH

With a growing need for proper two factor authentication methods for web services many turn to applications such as Authy [https://authy.com/], Google Authenticator or the OTP module of their prefered passwords and secrets managers. Yet, another solution exist : the use of physical keys such as the ones from

Pass : Open Source to the rescue

Using a password manager has become very important to avoid plenty of issues. So with the move to a Linux workstation using an OpenSource solution made a lot of sense.

New system

After years using an Apple Laptop as my main work machine I started to grow annoyed by the frequent power up of the ventilation inside the laptop. I also noticed some bugs within the OS that would trigger impromptu restarts, network issues that would require me to restart the system

Custom keyboards and split designs

Back when I was at University near Paris a friend of mine was always talking about how great his ergonomic keyboard was so good and how his typing was better. Years later I was the one doing the same about the keyboard I got. Well, here I am, again, talking about split keyboards.

Simple tmux tricks

Tmux has replaced a long time ago our use of screen to handle persistent sessions on remote servers and also more powerful terminals on our work stations.