Make your Debian setup testable and repeatable

For even longer than I have been using Ansible to manage my macOS setup, I have been using the same process for Debian (was previously Ubuntu, but was converted). I have also put a Vagrant configuration around it so I can test the inclusion of packages prior to running on my actual machine.

Make your macOS setup testable and repeatable

For quite some time I have been using Ansible to manage my OS X / macOS setup. Though fiddly, I have also put a Vagrant configuration around it so I can test the inclusion of packages prior to running on my actual machine.

Helping you understand if a job on offer is the right one

I recently had an offer of a job and was on the fence as to whether it was the right next opportunity for me.

I decided to quickly put together a Radar Chart to help me understand what was important to me, and how that married up with my existing and the new role on offer.

Start your linux command-line friendship

A few years back I knocked together this quick Vagrant setup to introduce some peeps to the joy of the linux command-line.

https://github.com/svo/command-line-tools-buzz-session

Learn about black hats by putting on a white one

I am in no way an expert in this field, but I thought it might prove interesting to setup a small project for developers to use a “learning by doing” approach to understanding cyber security.

https://github.com/svo/security-testing