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Updated: using 1Password and direnv to store developer secrets

2026-08-103 min

Using 1Password and direnv to store developer secrets

2026-04-063 min

Using Web Search with Claude Code API Billing

2026-03-312 min

Using Claude Code for things that aren’t code – gardening

2026-03-104 min

Auto-switching SSH keys for work repos

2026-03-043 min

Using Claude Code for things that aren't code - product comparisons

2025-10-016 min

Protocol level integrity guarantees in Kafka

2025-06-044 min

How to: use custom / self-signed certificates with Requests in Python

2024-10-153 min

How to: use Azurite with self-generated certificates for HTTPS in a Codespace or Devcontainer

2024-10-074 min

How to: Use Azurite as a service container in Codespaces or Devcontainers

2024-09-302 min

How to: Create SAS with multiple permissions in Pulumi

2024-09-241 min

How to: retrieve storage account primary key using Pulumi

2024-09-181 min

How to: check if a container exists without account level List permission

2024-09-121 min

Use Barman to back up PostgreSQL on an Azure VM to Azure Blob storage

2023-12-104 min

How to restore backups of PostgreSQL from S3 using Barman and barman-cloud-backup

2023-11-143 min

How to automate backups of a PostgreSQL server using Barman/barman-cloud-backup to S3

2023-11-087 min

Migrate your TimescaleDB from timescale.com to self hosted

2023-10-237 min

Using an ephemeral MongoDB single node replicaset in a devcontainer or codespace

2023-09-293 min

How to: LetsEncrypt in standalone mode for Unifi on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-01-083 min

Powering a Yale Smart Lock with Mains Electricity and Backup Battery

2018-12-164 min

LetsEncrypt with DNS-01 validation for Unifi

2017-07-156 min

How to upgrade VMWare ESXi on HP Gen8 Microserver

2017-06-071 min

Creating a VM to test Docker - migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

2017-01-152 min

Installing VMWare - migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

2016-12-201 min

How to flash IBM ServeRaid M1015 to LSI9211-IT for ZFS in HP Gen8 Microserver

2016-12-162 min

Preparing for migration - migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

2016-12-152 min

Hardware required - migrating from Unraid to Napp-It

2016-11-153 min

How to ensure you can revert changes to function apps

2016-11-013 min

National Rail LDBWS to Twitter

2016-10-231 min

Logic Apps are so expensive!!

2016-10-202 min

Quick and easy way to tweet from a function app

2016-10-191 min

Twitter API without libraries - for posting as yourself (e.g. a bot)

2016-09-181 min

How to: access the Honeywell Evohome API documentation

2016-04-181 min

How to: Manage Honeywell Evohome with Azure Logic Apps

2016-03-121 min