I have for many years paid to have a fixed IP number at home. The main reason was to allow me to access servers and have the remote access restricted to the home IP number. This was just one of many layers of the security of the server and the SSH setup, but no more.

I’ve been playing with (Tailscale)[https://tailscale.com/] which essentially provide an overlay network and allows you to have a secure private network across the public internet. Tailscale has a free plan perfectly suitable for my uses and clients for just about any machine, so getting all machines attached to a private network through Tailscale is surprising easy.

If you’re jumping around on servers and need to figure out what the IPnumber(s) of the server are, here’s a little bash line which usually works (tough with a few catches):

ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }'

This command assume the eth0 is the public WAN interface in the server. If there are more network cards this may not be correct - or the only interface for the net.

Bruno is an open source alternative to tools like Postman or Insomnia. Both are nice, but they also seem to becoming more complicated than I really need, so I’ve been looking for something else.

Initially I didn’t have more complicated needs than wanting a tool to tinker and play with simple REST APIs, so I looked around and found Bruno.

As many APIs require some authentication, you often need to manage credentials, tokens or other sensitive data which shouldn’t be in your git repo, and luckily Bruno has a nice way it can be used with 1Password which is my password manager of choice.

Got access to a wifi network, but forgot the password? No a problem. At least not if you have a windows, Mac or Linux machine with access. All these OSes can basically without restrictions show you the wifi password in clear text.

Windows

Once you have access to the wifi network. Open the commandline and enter the following command replacing “SSID” with the actual name of the wifi network you want to retrive the password to.

netsh wlan show profile name=SSID key=clear

It would seems a new fashion has come to the world of software engineering, which anyone is expected to have an oppion about. The so called mono-repo talk.

As with so many other cases there seems to be multiple definitions flying around and not asserted definition of when you have a mono-repo, but let me try to share some thoughts.

• A repository is a place, where sourcecode (and potentially other stuff) is associated with software development is stored.
• A mono-repository is when all the sourcecode produced in a company is manged in a single repository.
• A Single-server respository (strategy) os whenn all sourcecode is manged in a single (git) server, but every project has its own repository.

On the multi (git)server, multi repository setup…

I don’t like it.