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This guide is about security, not privacy.

Additionally, security measures that heavily compromise usability were not included.

This guide aims to produce above-average secure systems, without giving up features.

Last updated for macOS Ventura (13.3).

In the past few days, there have been uncertainties and concerns about the LUKS (“Linux Unified Key Setup”) disk encryption, which is widely used on Linux. We publish our assessment of this here.

Let’s face it: learning is hard. When I get a new job, I have to learn all about the new product, how it runs, and what I can do to help contribute. For myself, this is not an issue: I am an experienced software engineer. Unravelling balls of yarn that make complex software stacks function is what I do for a living. In this post, I’m going to go over some of the ways that software projects handle implicit complexity and how most of the tools that I have used in this space have not really solved any problems. If you aren’t interested in the history lesson, you can skip to the end to read about the specific tools I use to reduce installation steps to cd project-name && devenv up.