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Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Building Evolutionary Architectures

Chapter 1 - Software Architecture

Architecture is 'the important stuff, whatever that is' or 'the parts that are hard to change later'. An architect analyzes business, domain, and other requirements to develop solutions that satisfy a list of prioritized architectural characteristics (-ilities). We should consider time and change with respect to architecture, or evolvability.

Software ecosystems are in a state of dynamic equilibrium. New languages, tools, methods constant force new equilibriums to emerge (free OS, linux, + free operations, puppet, led to the shift to containers). The pace of change in technology is constantly and rapidly changing in unexpected ways. We should architect systems knowing the landscape will change. Make ease of change a principal of architecture, remove the 'hard to change' definition of architecture.

An evolutionary architecture supports guided, incremental change across multiple dimensions. Evolvability is a meta characteristic that

I wrote this short tutorial because extending my internal storage using my new micro SD card on my Retroid Pocket 2+ failed all the time. Only setting it up as portable/external worked. However, this instructions should work in any Android 5.0+ device.

So, in case you have problems setting up your SD card on your Android device via graphical interface (setting up storage as extended internal memory or portable), and you get a corrupted SD card or any other error, follow these steps to fix it via adb shell:

Make sure you have adb access to your Android device: Settings > System > About, touch/click on Build number until Developer options are enabled:
Go to Settings > System > Developer options and enable USB debugging.
Assuming you have adb installed on your remote terminal run the following:

adb shell

tmux Cheat Sheet

Table of Contents

General Usage
Shortcuts
Commands
Scripting tmux
Configuring tmux

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.

Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.

The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.

atuin: "Magical shell history"
bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Methods of Signing Git Commits on MacOS

Last updated March 13, 2024

This Gist explains how to sign commits using gpg in a step-by-step fashion. Previously, krypt.co was heavily mentioned, but I've only recently learned they were acquired by Akamai and no longer update their previous free products. Those mentions have been removed.

Additionally, 1Password now supports signing Git commits with SSH keys and makes it pretty easy-plus you can easily configure Git Tower to use it for both signing and ssh.

For using a GUI-based GIT tool such as Tower or Github Desktop, follow the steps here for signing your commits with GPG.

	# will not work in all cases, see https://gist.github.com/angelo-v/e0208a18d455e2e6ea3c40ad637aac53#gistcomment-3439904

	function jwt-decode() {
	sed 's/\./\n/g' <<< $(cut -d. -f1,2 <<< $1) \| base64 --decode \| jq
	}

	JWT=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiYWRtaW4iOnRydWV9.TJVA95OrM7E2cBab30RMHrHDcEfxjoYZgeFONFh7HgQ

	jwt-decode $JWT

	class Program
	{
	#region Private variables

	// the secret password which we will try to find via brute force
	private static string password = "p123";
	private static string result;

	private static bool isMatched = false;

	/**
	* @returns `typeof value === 'object' && value != null && !Array.isArray(value)`
	* @see {@link UntrustedObject} for type refinement details.
	*/
	function isUntrustedObject(value: unknown): value is UntrustedObject {
	return typeof value === 'object' && value != null && !Array.isArray(value);
	}

	// Split a string into a union of all it's characters.
	type SplitString<S extends string> = S extends `${infer First}${infer Rest}`

	[
	{
	"name": "Afghanistan",
	"dial_code": "+93",
	"code": "AF"
	},
	{
	"name": "Aland Islands",
	"dial_code": "+358",
	"code": "AX"