Category: Developer Lounge

  • How to Securely Browse and Harden Firefox

    How to Securely Browse and Harden Firefox

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFirefox inherits security features from the famous TOR browser. By default most of firefox’s settings are secure and stable. Most people browse with just one browser. Here we will show you how to use two firefox profiles; – We use the recon profile to see if we should trust the site via…

  • How to Use a Yubikey with Libre Office for OpenPGP Encryption

    How to Use a Yubikey with Libre Office for OpenPGP Encryption

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the above blog, it was seen that libre office reads the ~/.gnupg home directory of GPG in order to encrypt/decrypt. This may be stolen by malware since it is located in a standard place. It possible however, to shift the private sub key to a Yubikey’s OpenPGP card module. By doing…

  • How to Use OpenPGP Symmetric Encryption with Libre Office and Linux

    How to Use OpenPGP Symmetric Encryption with Libre Office and Linux

    Reading Time: 3 minutesBenefits The benefits for using public/private symmetric encryption with libre office are; – Steps Generate a public/private GPG key pair; – If you use windows you will have to figure this out on your own, since i am on linux mint. You could use a graphical user interface like Sea Horse to…

  • How to Add a Javascript Background Animation in Your Word Press Theme

    How to Add a Javascript Background Animation in Your Word Press Theme

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn your plugins folder, add your custom javascript effect to ./assets/javascript/firefly.js In the example we will use the fire fly effect from https://codepen.io/Mertl/pen/GexapP For this to work in word press, we need to wrap it in jquery so that it only runs when the DOM is ready. The firefly code from Mertl…

  • How to Add Custom Fonts to a WordPress Theme

    How to Add Custom Fonts to a WordPress Theme

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen building your first word press site, the first thing you want to do is apply your branding style guide, with all your custom fonts. There are many blogs on this topic. The below site demonstrates 3 different ways; – Methods; – In practice, with word press 6.5+ not all methods…