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Hi, my name is Marco. Working as a Senior Software Architect at Philips. I'm an Opensource Maintainer and Contributor. If you like my work, consider to sponsor my work.
I wrote my first blog March 2011. Mostly I'm writing on software development. In total I wrote 75 articles in 7 categories. Use search below to filter by title or click a category or tag to filter by tag or category.
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Globally configure multiple git commit emails
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Have you ever been struggling to commit with the right email address on different repositories? It happened to me many times in the past, but for a couple of years I'm now using an approach that prevents me from making that mistake. E.g. when working on your work related machine, I'm pretty often also working on Opensource in my spare time, to build my own skills, and simply because I believe in the cause of Opensource. Also during work time I'm also sometimes contributing fixes back to Opensour…
Upgrade your SSH security
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As a DevOps engineer you are probably familiar with SSH keys and how to use them already. I wrote some blogs on SSH in the past as well see the references. This time I want to zoom in a bit on the encryption strength of your keys and the encryption types you can use. Why should you care about this? In todays world password are becoming more and more a security risk. In the near future Github for example will not support password authentication anymore for clone, push and pull actions, just lik…
Remove files from Git history using git-filter-repo
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Many of you have probably been in a situation where you committed a file in your repository which you shouldn't have done in the first place. For example a file with credentials or a crazy big file that made your repository clones very slow. Now there are a lot of blogs and guides already available on how to get these files completely removed. It involves git filter-branch or bfg sourcery. In this blog I'm going to show you the new recommended way of doing this using git-filter-repo, which simpl…
Howto Secure Shell easily from the terminal
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I see many struggle when it comes to using Secure Shell in a comfortable way. Many are installing unneeded applications like Putty on Windows for example. Just like I did 4 years ago. Over the years I have been working a lot on servers where there was no GUI available and learned a lot doing that. I would like to share my tips and tricks so you can also be empowered by just sticking to the terminal on your OS or simply using Git Bash on Windows. What is SSH The SSH protocol (also referred to a…
Merge multiple gradle projects including git history
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As we started 2 years ago with a micro-service architecture we faced some issues in the productivity of the teams a while ago. This made me think what we could do about that from an architecture and development point of view. As we used different Git repos for the various components of our micro services in the long run it became harder and harder for developers to work with those components. At that point in time I decided to simplify the development workflow to merge the different Git repos of…