For a recent client I was asked to provide a puppet development setup on the windows platform. The toolchain included Git for windows / Git bash / Turtoise GIT / Atom and some others. It also includes the windows adaption of my git pre-commit hook.

To use this hook, you need to install …

With Debian officially realising Debian 9.0 aka Stretch, it was time to move my native Linux machine to the latest and greatest. In an update to this post I will report how it turned out for me ??

BTW : turned out great!

The experience with my MacBook Pro late 2016 have been mostly positive. There is an annoying thing going on with third party apps, including Firefox and KeepassX, crashing. The crashes always report themselves when I unlock my laptop. So I suspect it occurs during sleep or wake of the laptop …

I run multiple vagrant setups on my laptop. Sometimes when switching from one setup to another, vagrant complains it cannot find a certain node that is actually part of the other enviroment.

As a quick fix I just run :

rm ~/.vagrant.d/data/machine-index/index

During my freelancing time over the last couple of years, I’ve been trying different setups that would satisfy my wish to use a single laptop for different clients whilst maintaining proper security.

After all, I do not want to explain my client that their servers got infected with Crapware …