The more I use Visual Studio the more features and extensions I find which really help my workflow. I tend to work with many headless remote systems from Windows jump servers. I’ve traditionally used PuTTY and MTPuTTY (Multi-Tabbed PuTTY) as SSH client and CyberDuck or WinSCP to copy files via SFTP over SSH. The …

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macOS 10.15 Catalina changed default Terminal from bash to zsh. When I first moved I tried Powerline extension but it was always a bit slow and really I all I need is a custom prompt. So today I revisited this and created a custom prompt for Zsh and learned a little along the way. First I create an empty ~/.hushlogin …

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iSH is a project which offers a Linux shell environment on iOS using a usermode x86 emulator. The emulator is based on Alpine Linux but does not ship with SSH or APK the Alpine Linux package manager. To install the package manager with iSH and ultimately other tools we can download this with Safari from following URL. …

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I’d heard lots of great things about Peloton however it the basic bike costs £1,990. I really wanted to see what I had been missing out but couldn’t justify the cost so set about creating a custom solution. Peloton Membership Peloton membership is required to provide access to their live workout classes and …

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When I was co-located in office with the other members of my team I never really had to put much thought into the structure of the working day. I turned up around 9am, took 30m lunch at 12noon and left around 5:00pm. My work is delivering solutions which often span several weeks or months as such I have a great deal of …

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