Code Trips & Tips

Almost four years after its initial inception and release, I have entirely rewritten the CLI invocation, streamlined the encryption secrets management, and created a self-contained executable. Once you have a private/public key pair, a file can be simply encrypted using: ./filecrypt.pyz -o my_file.enc /path/to/plain.txt and decrypted using: ./filecrypt.pyz  -o /path/to/plain.txt -d my_file.enc The –send option … More filecrypt — OpenSSL-based file encryption, release 0.7.2

This post describes how to fully automate the build/install of a C++ Project, with several dependencies, using CMake and Conan, a package manager. A couple of years back, I needed a simple HTTP client to run some integration tests against a Gossip Server I was developing; it turns out that, something we take for granted … More Converting a C++ project to CMake & Conan

Minikube is an extremely useful tool to run a development Kubernetes single-node cluster locally, on a development machine. I use it regularly on my Linux box and, as I want to do development on my MacBook Pro too, I thought I’d use it there to. In order to do so, I have created a simple … More HOW-TO Install Minikube on MacOS

I have now had a TS-212 QNAP NAS for many years and I am really (really!) happy with it: it works exceedingly well for what I originally bought it for (a networked backup drive, essentially) but it has also so many more facilities that I really have come to depend on it for a number … More QNAP NAS Hybrid Backup Sync restart

As everyone knows by now, Microsoft has bought Github for several $BN’s. Depending on your point of view, this can be either a catastrophe or a disaster: nothing good can possibly come out of it, apart from, possibly, having prevented Github (the corporation) going into a steady, sad decline, as they seemed unable to figure … More HOW-TO Move your code out of GitHub