The Authy Backup System
A look at how the Authy authenticator app works, in the pursuit of securely backing up my MFA tokens offline.
Moving from WordPress to 11ty
After 17 years with WordPress, it's time for something different. Here's how I migrated 500 posts to a static site generator.
A peek inside pinentry
I interact with pinenty daily, but I don't really understand it. This post dives into how it is invoked and can be used outside of GPG for your own projects.
Netlify + Cloudflare = Crazy Delicious
Cult of the Party Parrot is a fairly simple static site, but it pushes a lot of traffic. Combining the magic of Netlify with the sweet cache layer of Cloudflare with a dash of Google Cloud functions gives us the best of both.
Easy visual identification of git short sha's.
A list of short SHA's can be hard to read, wrapping them in color can help.
Using environment secrets as build arguments in Google Cloud Build
Cloud Build is a nice tool for continuous building of your Docker images. Using an environment secret in the build is a gap in the docs, here is how I did it.
Party Gopher!
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A New GPG Key
After a decade it's time to create a new GPG key. There's no real excuse not to use a Yubikey anymore either. This will cover the process I took from start to finish, with subkeys, paperkey backups, git signing and SSH with gpg-agent.
Chicken Cam: Incubator Edition
Why let a chicken hatch your eggs when you could make a Raspberry Pi do it?
gpdmp-to-slack
Show your currently playing song as your Slack status from Google Play Desktop Music Player.