HOWTO: Sort BitWarden Passwords by Date


Screenshot of the BitWarden export page.

I highly recommend BitWarden as a password manager. It is free, open source, and has a great range of apps and APIs. The one thing it doesn't have is a way to sort your accounts by creation date. I now have over a thousand accounts that I've added - so I wanted to prune away […]

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Happy 2nd Birthday to this Bitwarden bug!


Screenshot of the Bitwarden Android interface. Emoji are showing as question marks.

Exactly two years ago to the day, I reported a weird little emoji bug with Bitwarden. Let's say you want a password of: ✅🐎🔋📎 (As close as possible to Correct Horse Battery Staple) That works. Emoji are stored and retrieved correctly. You can use them with any system which supports them. But you can't view […]

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Bitwarden's new username generator is brilliant


Screenshot of Bitwarden generating a username.

I've been using Bitwarden for years. It generates a unique password for every website I visit. There's only been one small problem - I want a unique username for each website. Let me explain. Sometimes websites sell or leak your email address to spammers. If you're using yourname@example.com for every site, you'll never know who […]

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Emoji Passwords and BitWarden


Screenshot of the Bitwarden Android interface. Emoji are showing as question marks.

Let me start by saying that Emoji Passwords are probably a really daft idea. I want to use emoji in my passwords. They're easy to type on a mobile keyboard, easy to remember, and a lot more fun than boring ASCII characters. Let's go with ✅🐎🔋📎 (As close as possible to Correct Horse Battery Staple) […]

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Review: BitWarden - the better password manager


Bitwarden vault showing 795 login details.

I've been a long time user of LastPass - but over the last year, they've abandoned their Linux customers and insisted that users pay to access enhanced security. Forget that noise! I started looking for a new password manager and, on the recommendation of several friends, started using BitWarden. Pros Open Source! Works in the […]

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