I came across Skiff.com on a Hacker News submission . They claim to provide a “Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email” service. As the author of the Email Privacy Tester I like to test em...
https://www.grepular.com/Skiff_Emails_Various_Privacy_Failures
Sometimes there are programs that I want to use, and they’re either missing from my OS package repository, or I want to run a later version. I’ve started using a little trick to make these av...
https://www.grepular.com/Self_Building_and_Executing_Dockerfiles
A little over a year ago, I created a simple python script for sandboxing Rust development using Docker. It’s called saferrust . You basically copy it into your PATH, name it “cargo” and pr...
https://www.grepular.com/Sandbox_Rust_Development_with_Rust_Analyzer
I recently found myself wanting to manage my firewall from a NodeJS application. There were a couple of issues I needed to overcome first. As a general rule, I try to Dockerise all NodeJS applica...
https://www.grepular.com/Manage_Firewall_from_Dockerised_NodeJS
I’ve started using an excellent piece of software called Restic for backing up my various hosts. Restic has multiple backend types that you can send your backups to. One of the backends it sup...
2023-OCT-07 - I noticed this stopped working for me today. Not sure how long it has been broken. I’ve stopped using Twitter myself due to the lunatic leadership and have no interest in investig...
https://www.grepular.com/Twitter_to_RSS_with_Google_Cloud_Function
I recently discovered that after upgrading my various Debian based devices, I’m now using a version of OpenSSH (>=6.7) which supports GPG Agent Forwarding - https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwardi...
Yesterday, I discovered that Keybase has a browser extension for both Firefox and Chrome. It activates whenever you land on a profile page on keybase.io, or a website which Keybase uses for pro...
A number of email authentication related issues recently came together in a perfect storm to break the delivery of an email which I sent. For mail which I send from grepular.com email addresses, ...
I’ve been using a small script to monitor when my PGP master and subkeys expire for a while now. You just supply it with an email address which can be used to locate the private key in your Gnu...