slikts

Linuxifying Windows for development

This guide is for 'linuxing-up' Windows as a development environment; it focuses on setting up [WSL], an Ubuntu Hyper-V virtual machine, [wsltty] (a nice terminal emulator) and various tweaks.

Rationale

xmeng1

$remoteport = bash.exe -c "ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet '"
$found = $remoteport -match '\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}';

if( $found ){
  $remoteport = $matches[0];
} else{
  echo "The Script Exited, the ip address of WSL 2 cannot be found";
  exit;
}

simpsoka

Do I want to die on this hill?

• Pass: This is morally good and if not handled has long term consequences
• Fail: This if self serving

Am I including everyone?

• Pass: My ego is not driving this conversation
• Fail: The people in this conversation will only tell me I'm right and not push back

joshfp

mcattarinussi

GPG - SSH setup

Generating the master key

Here we create the master key. We want only Certify capability: we use the master key only to create the subkeys, Sign - Encrypt - Authenticate capabilities will be assigned to the subkeys.

Run the following command to start the master key generation process. Select the set your own capabilities creation process (type 8)

  ▶ gpg --full-generate-key --expert

gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.9; Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

ohthehugemanatee

#!/bin/bash

# Simple script to start/stop my Azure remote workstation.
# Requires:
# - Azure CLI configured
# - Remmina RDP client
# - Zenity
# 

# Change these values to match your VM.

jessfraz

# Description: Boxstarter Script
# Author: Jess Frazelle <[email protected]>
# Last Updated: 2017-09-11
#
# Install boxstarter:
# 	. { iwr -useb http://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1 } | iex; get-boxstarter -Force
#
# You might need to set: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
#
# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an **elevated** command-prompt:

ageis

YubiKey 4 series GPG and SSH setup guide

Written for fairly adept technical users, preferably of Debian GNU/Linux, not for absolute beginners.

You'll probably be working with a single smartcard, so you'll want only one primary key (1. Sign & Certify) and two associated subkeys (2. Encrypt, 3. Authenticate). I've published a Bash function which automates this slightly special key generation process.

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

josephst

Getting Windows set up for development and daily driver use

Similar guides for inspiration

• https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows-development-environment
• https://char.gd/blog/2017/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-modern-dev-environment-on-windows for front-end specific tips

Setting up a user profile

• Install Windows with offline profile (no MSFT account) so that user folder is set correctly (rather than to a truncated email address)
• Make sure BitLocker is enabled
• Change name of computer (to something memorable, instead of DESKTOP-FDSFFE or some other random name)