Note Taking Applications
As I delve deeper into the field of cybersecurity and penetration testing I’ve discovered that if you search Google or Youtube for “penetration testing note-taking applications” you’ll see there are...
Why Use Strong Passwords?
During my penetration testing studies I’ve come to realize the need for strong passwords is now more important than ever. I only realized recently just how easy it is to crack a weak password. Let me...
Automate Linux Kernel Builds
I wrote a small shell script™ to automate building new Linux Kernels. I use this to build new kernels on my Debian systems: #!/usr/bin/env bash WORKSPACE='/home/gd/workspace'...
Hand-on Test-Driven Development Book
My new book Hand-on Test-Driven Development Book has been published: https://tddbook.com/ .
Reorder Rails database migrations files
On new Rails apps, that are not in production yet, I sometimes like to reorder my database migrations. I wrote a small Ruby script to automate things.
Meta-programming a dynamic method inside a dynamic class in Raku and Ruby
I wanted to learn to create a dynamically-named method inside a dynamically-named class in Raku. This is what I ended up with: #!/usr/bin/env raku my $class-name = "MyDynamicClass"; my $method-name =...
Blackjack written in Elisp
I wrote Blackjack in Elisp . It allows you to play Blackjack in your Emacs editor.
Marten, the Crystal web framework
Wow, if Django and Rails had a baby it would be Marten, the web framework written in Crystal , https://martenframework.com/ . It seems fairly feature-complete, even with only a 0.1.x version number!...
Current State of the Hanami Web Framework
About two days ago I built the “bookshelf” app described in the Hanami guide. Hanami is currently missing any sort of “model” layer, as well as any sort of “view” layer, as you might expect to be...
MP3 Player written in Ruby using Ruby on Rails
I wrote a simple MP3 player: https://github.com/gdonald/player