Managing passwords with GPG

I recently moved back to working on Windows. I've been really enjoying the development setup of Windows 10 with WDL 2 which allows me to have Ubuntu right at hand. The one downside is that I can't open my Apple encrypted .dmg file. I have been in the habit of keeping my passwords in a clear text file, but storing it on an encrypted disk image that I keep on my cloud back up drive. I know that these companies claim to not check the contents, but this makes it nearly impossible. Now that I'm on Windows, I needed another solution and decided to get back to gpg. I created the following bash functions to let me view my password file quickly and easily.

Here's the code in a gist. I put the logic in my ~/.bashrc so that I can access the file by typing "pw". When I'm done getting information or adding a new password, the code re-encrypts the file, cleans up the temporary file and maintains a minimum backup of previous encrypted files.

Fun things to do with Docker

I recently got back to doing some dev work and I'm using docker. Docker is nice in that you can make build boxes and run them which can be really handy if you're developing on a mac but your code is destined for some linux variant.

One thing I found helpful today was to mount my local project so that I could run inside my Docker centos box. I did it with something like this:

$> docker run -di --mount type=bind,source="/path/to/project/folder",target=/var/opt/project"image:tag"

When run in that manner, I can have a container running that has my local project in /var/opt/project. I can edit the code and run it after shelling onto the box. Other common commands I use a lot.

$> docker ps
$> docker exec -it <id> /bin/bash
$> docker stop <id>