The biggest update in years for gexporter and gimporter just shipped. The headline: share a place from any app on your phone, and your Garmin watch takes you there. Plus one-tap track transfer, managing the watch from the phone, 29 languages and eight new devices. ...more

Last week dynqueue 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 shipped. The headline is a breaking fix: dynamically enqueued work is now actually distributed across worker threads instead of piling up on the thread that produced it. ...more

What if your SSH agent could encrypt secrets, not just authenticate connections? ssh-tresor does exactly that—it uses your SSH keys to encrypt files with no key material stored on disk. Works seamlessly over forwarded agents, supports multiple keys like LUKS slots, and turns your existing SSH setup into a portable secret management solution. ...more

Although restic is a really nice backup solution, it lacks the possibility to pull the files to backup from a remote server, like rsync does over ssh, preventing any attacker to gain access to a secret. This blog post shows some workarounds and does the backup to a QNAP NAS S3 store over an encrypted TLS connection. ...more

After over twenty years of using Red Hat and Fedora, it’s time to move on to explore other possibilities. Although my secure boot laptop still uses VerityBook, which is based on Fedora, my other machines are now running NixOS. ...more