The Evolution of The Nerd Kit

Nerding on the move — building a nerd kit will help you survive on the move and in the wild without the comfort of your home office setup.

Upgrading a ThinkPad T450s with an M.2 SSD

How to install a M.2 2242 SSD in a ThinkPad T450s

Build your own custom Short URL generator using AWS

Use terraform to quickly setup your own Short URL generator using a custom domain with AWS API Gateway, CloudFront, Lambda, Route 53 and S3.

My Home Office Setup

Productivity comes down to what you use and how you use it. In this post I want to share with you the fundamentals of my home office setup which has been responsible for a lot of productivity over the years.

Building a pwned passwords extension for pass

Over the last couple of weeks I've built a pass-pwned extension for pass that allows you to check if your passwords have been compromised in a security breach.

pwnedpasswords.sh - a bash script for searching Troy Hunt's pwnedpasswords

A very simple bash script for searching Troy Hunt's pwnedpasswords.

Re-ordering environments in Bamboo deployment projects

Using Selenium web driver in Python to more efficiently re-order environments in an Atlassian Bamboo deployment project

Slim application title bars for Gnome 3

The appearance of windows in Gnome can be tweaked by applying custom CSS. Here is a hack for slimming down the height of application title bars.

List SSH hosts from your SSH config

Use an alias to quickly list all SSH hosts defined in your SSH config

Dotfiles with GitHub, Travis CI and Docker

Most of us use dotfiles to personalise our systems - and I'm no different. I've recently taken to automating away my management and testing of dotfiles by using GitHub, Travis CI and Docker