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Oct 9

Increase developer confidence with a great Django test suite

#python #programming #django

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Sep 11

What is TLS? Transport Layer Security encryption explained in plain english

#security #computerscience #algorithms

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Aug 11

How to create a self-documenting Makefile

#showdev #productivity #devops

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Nov 21

Responsive pages and color themes with minimal CSS

#css #webdev #devtips

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Three rules for choosing a VPN that takes your privacy seriously

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Oct 19

You can now web-monetize your DEV posts! (But don't get your hopes up too quickly)

Jun 10

How do GitHub Actions work?

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Apr 29

Unexpected benefits of asynchronous remote work

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Mar 23

Unexpected benefits of asynchronous remote work

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Mar 22

Outsourcing security with 1Password, Authy, and Privacy.com

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Mar 19

Outsourcing security with 1Password, Authy, and Privacy.com

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Mar 19

“Multithreaded Python: slithering through an I/O bottleneck”

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Nov 13

WPA Key, WPA2, WPA3, and WEP Key: Wi-Fi security explained

#security

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Nov 14

Build your own serverless subscriber list with Go and AWS

#showdev #opensource #go

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Oct 18

Three rules for choosing a VPN that takes your privacy seriously

#security

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Sep 25

Django project best practices to keep your developers happy

#python #programming #django

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Sep 18

Manipulating data with Django migrations

#python #programming #django

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Aug 29

Deceptively simple search-and-replace across multiple files

#showdev #productivity #devtips

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Aug 19

How GitHub Codespaces increase productivity and lower barriers

#showdev #devops #opensource #programming

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Jul 28

Go automate your GitHub profile README

#showdev #go

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Jul 29

Writing efficient Django

#python #programming

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Jul 1

Look mom, I'm a GitHub Action Hero

#opensource #security #github #devops

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Jun 26

Technical ergonomics for the efficient developer

#remotework #career #devtips #productivity

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May 26

How to choose and care for a secure open source project

#security #opensource #programming #devops

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May 13

If you want to build a treehouse, start at the bottom

#security #webdev #devops #beginners

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Apr 29

Hugo vs Jekyll: an epic battle of static site generator themes

#showdev #opensource #webdev #github

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Mar 22

Unexpected benefits of asynchronous remote work

#remotework #career #devtips #productivity

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Mar 17

Outsourcing security with 1Password, Authy, and Privacy.com

#security

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Mar 6

SQLite in production with WAL 🔥

#computerscience #programming #devtips

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Feb 28

“Multithreaded Python: slithering through an I/O bottleneck”

#computerscience #programming #python

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Feb 18

Command line tricks for managing your messy open source repository

#showdev #devtips #bash #linux

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Dec 31 '19

The past ten years, or, how to get better at anything

#programming #career #productivity #motivation

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Dec 27 '19

Healthy habits for good cybersecurity

#showdev #security

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Dec 24 '19

Concurrency, parallelism, and the many threads of Santa Claus 🎅

#computerscience #programming #beginners

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Dec 19 '19

Word bugs in software documentation and how to fix them

#devops #security #devtips #opensource

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Dec 12 '19

Security for the front-end developer

#security #webdev #devops #beginners

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Dec 4 '19

How to print newlines in command line output

#showdev #devtips #bash #linux

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Nov 28 '19

The care and feeding of an IoT device

#showdev #security

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Nov 21 '19

Bash and shell expansions: lazy list-making

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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Nov 13 '19

A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack

#showdev #security #serverless #devops

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Nov 5 '19

Publishing GitHub event data with GitHub Actions and Pages

#showdev #devtips #bash #productivity

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Oct 28 '19

A lightweight, tool-agnostic CI/CD flow with GitHub Actions

#showdev #devtips #bash #productivity

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Oct 23 '19

A portable Makefile for continuous delivery with Hugo and GitHub Pages

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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Oct 15 '19

How to quickly batch resize, compress, and convert images with a Bash one-liner

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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Oct 7 '19

Personal cybersecurity posture for when you're just this guy, you know?

#showdev #security #beginners

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Oct 1 '19

Secure application architecture basics: separation, configuration, and access

#security #webdev #devops #beginners

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Sep 23 '19

Migrating to the cloud but without screwing it up, or how to move house

#serverless #webdev #devops #beginners

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Sep 17 '19

How users and applications stay safe on the Internet: it's proxy servers all the way down

#security #webdev #devtips #beginners

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Sep 10 '19

Hackers are Googling your plain text passwords: preventing sensitive data exposure

#security #webdev #devtips #beginners

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Sep 3 '19

SQL injection and XSS: what white hat hackers know about trusting user input

#security #webdev #devtips #beginners

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Aug 21 '19

How to do twice as much with half the keystrokes using `.bashrc`

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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Aug 19 '19

How to set up a fresh Ubuntu desktop using only dotfiles and bash scripts

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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Aug 6 '19

How to write Bash one-liners for cloning and managing GitHub and GitLab repositories

#showdev #devtips #productivity #git

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Aug 2 '19

A quick guide to changing your GitHub username

#showdev #devtips #github #git

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Apr 22 '19

Two ways to deploy a public GitHub Pages site from a private Hugo repository

#showdev #devtips #productivity #git

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Mar 16 '19

A remote sync solution for iOS and Linux: Git and Working Copy

#showdev #git #devops #productivity

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Mar 8 '19

On doing great things

#shecoded

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Jan 23 '19

I can't make up my mind about Twitter lately

#discuss #productivity #showdev #aws

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Aug 6 '18

A quick guide to squashing Git commits

#git #devtips #devops

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Jul 23 '18

An automatic interactive pre-commit checklist, in the style of infomercials

#showdev #devtips #productivity #git

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Jul 9 '18

How to set up a short feedback loop as a solo coder

#programming #devtips #beginners

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Jun 30 '18

What does it mean to commit responsibly?

#discuss #programming

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Jun 6 '18

A coffee-break introduction to time complexity of algorithms

#algorithms #go #beginners #computerscience

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May 11 '18

Knapsack problem algorithms for my real-life carry-on knapsack

#programming #algorithms #go

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Apr 13 '18

Why I'm automatically deleting my old tweets using AWS Lambda

#showdev #go

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Mar 8 '18

Running a free Twitter bot on AWS Lambda

#showdev #devops #productivity

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Jan 7 '18

A unicode substitution cipher algorithm

#showdev #javascript #algorithms

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Nov 22 '17

About time

#programming #productivity #career #shecoded

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Nov 21 '17

Batch renaming images, including image resolution, with awk

#showdev #bash #programming #productivity

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Sep 13 '17

How to code a satellite algorithm and cook paella from scratch

#algorithms #coding

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May 18 '17

Iterating over objects and arrays: frequent errors

#javascript #arrays #objects #iteration

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How do GitHub Actions work?

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“Multithreaded Python: slithering through an I/O bottleneck”

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