Daniel Garajau

If you keep your GPG keys on a smartcard (like a Yubikey as I do), you can use them on a remote host over SSH without ever copying a private key off the card.

Every time I opened Firefox, there was an awkward 8-to-10-second wait before anything appeared on screen.

Sometimes you need a systemd service to wait for a specific hardware device to be available before starting.

What started as a simple network card upgrade on my home server turned into quite the troubleshooting adventure.

Frequently you’ll find that tmpfs is the most convenient one.

Sometimes you might need to use different Git repositories on your computer, but authenticating to separate users, such as your personal and your work user.

You use a minimalist tiling window manager, yet you want to be able to tinker with your desktop more easily and implement features like the ones available in full blown desktop environments?

Using systemd to manage user-level services is great.

Tradionally, *nix users are familiar (or maybe not so much) with cron syntax, whereas you define applications to be run at specific schedules.

By default, Debian uses /etc/network/interfaces file to manage your network interfaces by means of ifup and ifdown commands.