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Fedora 28: Enable NumLock on Login

I lost my primary drive on Friday, and I’m having to rebuild a bunch of stuff. I didn’t document minor things like this before, so I am this time around. Hopefully someone else finds this useful. numlockx There are plenty of different ways to enable NumLock on login, including a decent manual approach. An official X extension, numlockx, can handle it automatically for us. There’s an unofficial mirror available to build the package from source, or you can check for it in official channels.

Sensible SSH with Ansible

Sensible SSH with Ansible: An Ansible Primer

This is the third in a series of several posts on how to manage ssh via Ansible. It was inspired by a warning from Venafi that gained traction in the blogosphere (read: my Google feed for two weeks). I don’t know many people that observe good ssh security, so my goal is to make it more accessible and (somewhat) streamlined. This post serves as an Ansible primer. It assumes shell knowledge but nothing else.

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Cursor Detection Run Time Analysis

This is a quick follow-up to an earlier post today. I don’t have much to add, just more code and some (basic) graphs. Direct Xlib usage is seriously the way to go. Code Script Runner Raw Data Munging Setup pyautogui-pixel-color.py xlib-color.py xwd-convert-chained.py xwd-convert.sh All Together Slow Only Conclusions Code You can find everything here in the repo. Script Runner To get some data, I had to revamp most of the scripts from the first post.

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Quickly Detect Cursor Position and Color

I’ve been absolutely thrilled moving my home dev world back to Fedora. I’m not fighting OS ads, virtualization just works, and my settings actually stay the same after updates. I am, however, missing AutoHotkey. It’s been an integral part of my computing world since undergrad. I’ve spent the better part of three years looking for a POSIX AHK clone with no luck. I’ve tossed around the idea of starting something similar for some time now.

Sensible SSH with Ansible

Sensible SSH with Ansible: Vagrant Setup

This is the second in a series of several posts on how to manage ssh via Ansible. It was inspired by a warning from Venafi that gained traction in the blogosphere (read: my Google feed for two weeks). I don’t know many people that observe good ssh security, so my goal is to make it more accessible and (somewhat) streamlined. This post looks at how to quickly and easily mimick common environments in Vagrant.

Sensible SSH with Ansible

Sensible SSH with Ansible: Overview

This is the first in a series of several posts on how to manage ssh via Ansible. It was inspired by a warning from Venafi that gained traction in the blogosphere (read: my Google feed for two weeks). I don’t know many people that observe good ssh security, so my goal is to make it more accessible and (somewhat) streamlined. The Series so Far Code Executive Summary Note Compiling the Series Posts Software Main Windows My Environment Tool Overview ssh Ansible Optional: Vagrant The Series so Far Overview (This section should get updated as series progresses.

KeePass

KeePass + FreeRDP

One of my primary work responsibilities is to handle the Linux environments not related to our ecommerce platform (although, as one of few devs, one of my primary responsibilities is basically everything). We’re a big fan of the RHEL pipeline, so I use CentOS as my work environment. It bites occasionally, but, by and large, we don’t run bleeding-edge stacks because they’re, well, unsupported bleeding-edge stacks. I can find most of the software I need with older versions of Fedora or by just manually building things.