March 27, 2020

Stupid Terminal Tricks covid-19: day 15 | US: GA | info | act

I spent this morning tweaking my terminals on my MacBook Pro and my Pi. First, some key authentication with ssh. In day-to-day use, this makes life much easier, and it’s safer for the system as you can dispense with passwords. Currently, I maintain four external servers. Most of the time they just run, and two are hosted, so security patches are run by Namecheap. I set all up with key authentication. It took an hour, but it’s time well spent.

Next, some bash tweaks. This included mainly adding aliases. Again, this is a big time-saver in daily use, and it}s very easy to set up.

I’m having a great time with this server administration. I used to know a lot more when I maintained a server for the department. I know I still need to set up an automated backup system for my new webserver, especially since I have clients on there.

Speaking of new webservers, I think I might use a one-page template at grlucas.com and put my cv there. I’m not really pleased with the way it’s set up here, but I could use this site to detail entries. I found a pretty cool one-page résumé template that would take me some time to put my cv into, but it might be worth it. I’m not sure about the colors, but I bet I could easily change them.