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Your linux powered laptop is open and vulnerable. Let's harden it a little with the linux iptables firewall. It's not that hard, honest... it is just a text file.

If you like the network-wide protection your home pi-hole provides against adverts, domains that are known phishing sites, or domains that are known to serve malware, then you are going…

The python package ‘argparse’ is a highly versatile and customizable command line parser. I’m going to show you a handful of examples that should cover most of your use cases,…

Wouldn't you like to be able to wrap up all of your cool code in to a package, and then call your code from the command line using a user…

There are a couple of different ways to install python packages. Come on, let's take a look at them.

I've got a good one for you today. What a ride. It seems I have caught "setuptools" at a transitional moment. Installing python packages in editable / development mode with…

You need to know how to package your python projects properly. Here I show you how to package, and submit your package to your very own pypi.org repository. I create…

A look at how to clone a Github repository using SSH key pairs, and guidance on how to handle multiple Github accounts on the same machine.

A quick start guide to generate your own SSH public/private keypair. A look at generating both RSA and the more secure Elliptic Curve Ed25519 key type.

Did your git commands suddenly stop working in your docker container? Did you connect Visual Studio Code to your container? Are you faced with the error "Remote-Containers CLI: RPC pipe…