Windows

A few weeks ago I shelved my “homemade Bitwarden” and moved to 1Password on the family plan. Yes, you have to pay, but sharing with the family and the ease of use make up for it. Shortly after migrating the passwords I ran into the Developer tab and its SSH agent: private keys live in the vault, they sync themselves across my machines, and every use is authorized with a fingerprint or with Windows Hello. By the way, I later found out that Bitwarden has had an SSH agent too since early 2025. You learn something new every day. It sounded too good to be true, so I set out to check whether it fit my case: several workstations (macOS, Windows, Linux), lots of servers, network gear with SSH from another era, and more and more scripts and AI agents running ssh without me being at the keyboard. In this post I go through what I learned, how I set it up, and where I do NOT use it. …

Install, configure, and access a Windows 11 Pro VM on top of Proxmox VE. Proxmox lets you deploy Windows VMs using KVM/QEMU, with integration via the QEMU Guest Agent and VirtIO drivers, including UEFI + emulated TPM 2.0 (required for Win11). …

According to the Spanish RAE dictionary, Deshinchar: v. To deflate or reduce something swollen. That’s what this post is about: stripping Windows 11 of the apps, services, and options that simply get in the way — bloatware — that eat resources and clutter the experience. Works on a fresh Windows install as well as on one already in use. …

In this post I share a selection of cross-platform command-line tools that you can use interchangeably on PowerShell, CMD, WSL2, macOS and Linux. These are modern, fast and lightweight utilities that replace or greatly improve classic tools like ls, cd, find or even command history. They not only speed up everyday tasks, but also offer a more consistent user experience across systems. They don’t depend on specific shells like Bash or Zsh, and work the same whether you use PowerShell, Terminal, Alacritty, VSCode or any modern environment. As I discover new CLI utilities that fit this cross-platform, no-heavy-dependencies approach, I’ll keep adding them. …

When working in software development, one of the most subtle yet crucial aspects you need to be aware of is the difference between line endings in text files between Windows (CRLF \r\n) and Linux/MacOS (LF \n). This small detail can cause big problems if not handled correctly, especially when working in mixed environments – version control conflicts, script incompatibilities, compilation or execution issues. I wrote this post to have a handy reference for dealing with this topic, including a few tricks. …

I install VMware Workstation Pro on top of a Windows 11 Pro host and create a Guest VM running Windows 11 Pro (optionally without TPM 2.0) as an isolated development environment. …