Make Thunderbird comfortable. Why use Thunderbird? So that whenever you need a 4 yr old email with that certificate you have no physical copy of it, but you don’t know the name of the mail, sender, or anything. Searching with Google takes too much time. Besides, it is always a good idea to keep a… Continue reading Customizing Thunderbird
Category: Life Hacks
Windows Setup Guide
This is a checklist I use for setting up my windows machine. Unlike my linux machines, setting up a windows requires me to painstakingly download and install each application. Scoop is a package manager that will, hopefully, remove some of that pain. Install Scoop Install Git Add Extras Bucket(PPA/repository) Install required packages Add CapsToEscape AHK… Continue reading Windows Setup Guide
Firefox Custom Search: Speeding up Debugging
In my time over at Browserstack, I had to go through a lot of dashboards while debugging. All these look-ups followed a simple pattern. Over the course of a debugging session, we required data from at least 3 dashboards, sometimes going up to 6. I am talking about simple status pages, which have tabulated data… Continue reading Firefox Custom Search: Speeding up Debugging
Step CA: Add Auto-Renew to Host certificates
In the previous post, I discussed how to set up SSH CA and use it to access remote hosts. In that, I briefly mentioned auto-renewal abilities. This is a crucial step to take as usual certificates by SmallStep only last for about a month. The renewal process is quite easy, just the following line. In… Continue reading Step CA: Add Auto-Renew to Host certificates
How to set track pad settings on arch systems with libinput
My laptop when running Linux never enables click on tap by default. Given the heavy press required for clicking, this was a real hindrance to using the track pad. I also wanted to enable Natural Scrolling as I had gotten used to it. In Shell, type xinput list to get a list of devices and… Continue reading How to set track pad settings on arch systems with libinput