I recently co-founded an email SaaS for developers called developermail.io where tech-savy people can configure their email mailboxes using git. We just released a new feature, which enables you to use high-entropy passwords with our services.

In this blogpost I’ll quickly show you howto generate more secure passwords for your developermail.io account and mailboxes.

I’m using Androids repo tool from time to time when dealing with large groups of git repositories. In most situations, it is too bloated though. Some git “batch” commands I found very useful, like repo status, checking the status of all git repositories recursively.

To mimic this (and other) behaviour in a simple way, I created the following bash/zsh function (put this in your .bashrc or .zshrc, or another file where you define functions in your dotfiles)

One thing that was annoying me for a long time, was that, using Capistrano deployment, you cannot spawn a new vanilla virtual machine, and bring it to a fully up-and-running state with just one Chef command.

make deploy_revision compatible with Capistrano, so deployments can happen with Capistrano, until we’ve decided to fully migrate to Chef, or to stick with the push deployment