I save all my work passwords in MS Edge (on macOS), oops.
But to be fair, I also keep passwords in a plaintext file called pw.txt because our organization doesn’t allow us to use password managers officially. So I don’t really go out of my way to be more secure on their behalf if they’re not doing it themselves
A while ago we talked about Notepad++ and Paul mentioned this new super fast editor and I am probably gonnna give it a go eventually. https://zed.dev/
I also really appreciated John Gruber’s mentioning of Paul last week. I would love for Paul to be on The Talk Show sometime, hah.
I loved the shoutout of the forums this week! Hopefully more people join us here.
I use the built in IOS password manager as an iPad is my primary device I use while at work. I sign agreements with patients for consent of care and update chart pictures which is only an IOS app.
I do have a plain text note of various things related to work. Rates for service, who in our local metropolitan area covers which hospital.
I do have some stuff there too, when it’s automatic & often times (like with our VPN) convenient. I let it save passwords and autofill passwords when it asks me. But I’m not gonna manually add stuff to Keychain Access & Passwords like I might on my personal devices. Some of these passwords aren’t even going to be used on the Mac itself, they’re gonna be used deep in Windows RDP sessions or SSH connections. I like the convenience of the pw.txt even though I know it’s bad for security.
I like having my file because I don’t have to rely on the local machine. If I have to login from somewhere else, I just need to get into my OneDrive.
I have all my notes for the environments right in the same place.
As an aside: over a year ago, when we were all using Windows machines, some people were using https://keepass.info/ and they got an email from security saying they’re not allowed to use password managers and they actually forcefully removed them from machines.
As of today, I’m starting to use Zed at work, to replace VS Code. I don’t do anything crazy in VS Code so I think my transition will be mostly a success. There’s definitely a learning curve though. My keybindings (even though I’m using VS Code mode) aren’t the same.
It took me more time than I would like to admit to figure out how to use word wrap. Also I’m not sure if there’s any way like it VS Code to go from the CMD+P (search for project files) window, to the command prompt (not to be confused with command line). Where in VS Code, if you type a > in that prompt, it automatically starts searching for commands / settings. in Zed, you have to do cmd+shift+p. It doesn’t seem like there’s a way to seamlessly go from 1 to the other.
We went through a similar exercise to evaluate all our subscriptions to determine which ones we actually watch the most and what we watch live versus on-demand. Ultimately we decided to go with an antenna for locals, and six core services that we use regularly and were willing to pay for each month. All other streaming services are rotated in for a month when a show we like comes back with new episodes.
Between cutting back on streaming services and changing to a different internet service provider we saved about $60 a month.