McGarrah Technical Blog

Upcoming Articles Roadmap: September - December 2025

· 4 min read
A publishing schedule for the remaining 16 articles planned through end of 2025, covering Proxmox, Ceph, hardware monitoring, CLI tools, and Jekyll optimization.

Using Github Actions with pip-audit to audit pip library versions

· 12 min read
Dependabot misses Python pip security issues that pip-audit catches. Here's a GitHub Actions workflow that audits dependencies automatically without requiring pinned versions.

Windows Sandbox for Safe Testing

· 5 min read
Windows Sandbox provides a disposable, isolated VM that resets on close — ideal for testing scripts and software without risking the host system.

Start the Windows screensaver with a Shortcut

· 1 min read
How to create a keyboard shortcut that starts the Windows screensaver without locking the computer, using a desktop shortcut to a .scr file.

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