Eric S. Korni22

brew is a bad neighbor

This isn't a guide about locking down homebrew so that it can't touch the rest of your system security-wise.

This guide doesn't fix the inherent security issues of a package management system that will literally yell at you if you try to do something about "huh, maybe it's not great my executables are writeable by my account without requiring authorization first".

But it absolutely is a guide about shoving it into its own little corner so that you can take it or leave it as you see fit, instead of just letting the project do what it likes like completely taking over permissions and ownership of a directory that might be in use by other software on your Mac and stomping all over their contents.

By following this guide you will:

Never have to run sudo to forcefully change permissions of some directory to be owned by your account

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.

Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.

The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.

atuin: "Magical shell history"
bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition

But WHY?

There was a reddit post about installing Arch on NTFS3 partition. Since Windows and Linux doesn't have directories with same names under the /(C:\), I thought it's possible, and turned out it was actually possible.
If you are not familiar to Linux, for example you've searched on Google "how to dualboot Linux and Windos" or brbrbr... you mustn't try this. This is not practical.

Pre-requirements

UEFI system
Any Linux live-boot CD/DVD/USB... with Linux kernel newer than 5.15
Windows installer USB

Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice

I bought M1 MacBook Air. It is the fastest computer I have, and I have been a GNOME/GNU/Linux user for long time. It is obvious conclusion that I need practical Linux desktop environment on Apple Silicon.

Fortunately, Linux already works on Apple Silicon/M1. But how practical is it?

Two native ports exist.

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

	blueprint:
	name: Bathroom Humidity Exhaust Fan
	description: >
	# 🚿 Bathroom Humidity Exhaust Fan

	Version: 2.6


	Step into the future of freshness - customize it your way and experience the convenience of automated humidity control! 🌿🚿

	blueprint:
	name: Sensor Light
	description: >
	# 💡 Sensor Light

	Version: 8.4


	Your lighting experience, your way - take control and customize it to perfection! 💡✨

	<?php
	/*
	A simple PHP class to perform basic operations against Amazon S3 and compatible
	services. Requires modern PHP (7+, probably) with curl, dom, and iconv modules.

	Copyright 2022 Marco Arment. Released under the MIT license:

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

	# This file contains pin mappings and reasonable defaults for Prusa i3 MK3S
	# printers. It will work with MK3 (non-S) by selecting the alternative filament
	# sensor. References to common community mods are included as well.
	#
	# Note: The Einsy boards sold by Prusa have defective firmware on the
	# usb-to-serial chip that makes the boards unusable with Klipper through USB.
	# While flashing Klipper firmware must be done over USB, the board can be used
	# via serial with no additional modification.
	#
	# To use this config, the firmware should be compiled for the AVR atmega2560.

	MIT License

	Copyright (c) 2021 Daniel Ethridge

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: