Victoria Drake

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Oct 9 '20

Increase developer confidence with a great Django test suite

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Sep 11 '20

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

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Aug 11 '20

How to create a self-documenting Makefile

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Git branching for small teams

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The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

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Dec 30 '20

Streamline your projects using Makefile

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Dec 30 '20

Three rules for choosing a VPN that takes your privacy seriously

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Oct 19 '20

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

Jun 10 '20

How do GitHub Actions work?

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Apr 29 '20

Unexpected benefits of asynchronous remote work

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Mar 23 '20

Unexpected benefits of asynchronous remote work

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Mar 22 '20

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

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Dec 21 '21

My paper to-do strategy

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Dec 22 '21

Measuring productivity with GitHub issues

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Dec 22 '21

There are better options for a privacy-respecting phone

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Dec 21 '21

Digital resilience: redundancy for websites and communications

#showdev #security #devtips

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Dec 20 '21

Create a self-hosted chat service with your own Matrix server

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Dec 20 '21

Add search to Hugo static sites with Lunr

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Jan 19 '21

How to get hired as a software developer

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Oct 30 '21

Make your own independent website

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Jan 12 '21

How to become a software developer

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Dec 24 '20

Be brave and build in public

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Dec 22 '20

So you're the family tech support

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Dec 21 '20

How to write good documentation

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Dec 14 '20

How a single priority makes your tech team more productive

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Dec 7 '20

What is TCP/IP? Layers and protocols explained

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Nov 21 '20

Responsive pages and color themes with minimal CSS

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Nov 13 '20

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

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Nov 14 '20

Build your own serverless subscriber list with Go and AWS

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Oct 18 '20

Three rules for choosing a VPN that takes your privacy seriously

#security

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Sep 25 '20

Django project best practices to keep your developers happy

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Sep 18 '20

Manipulating data with Django migrations

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Aug 29 '20

Deceptively simple search-and-replace across multiple files

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Aug 19 '20

How GitHub Codespaces increase productivity and lower barriers

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Jul 28 '20

Go automate your GitHub profile README

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Jul 29 '20

Writing efficient Django

#python #programming

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Jul 1 '20

Look mom, I'm a GitHub Action Hero

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Jun 26 '20

Technical ergonomics for the efficient developer

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May 26 '20

How to choose and care for a secure open source project

#security #opensource #programming #devops

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May 13 '20

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

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Apr 29 '20

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

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Mar 22 '20

Unexpected benefits of asynchronous remote work

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Mar 17 '20

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

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Mar 6 '20

SQLite in production with WAL 🔥

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Feb 28 '20

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

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Feb 18 '20

Command line tricks for managing your messy open source repository

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Dec 31 '19

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

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Dec 27 '19

Healthy habits for good cybersecurity

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Dec 24 '19

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

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Dec 19 '19

Word bugs in software documentation and how to fix them

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Dec 12 '19

Security for the front-end developer

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Dec 4 '19

How to print newlines in command line output

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Nov 28 '19

The care and feeding of an IoT device

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Nov 21 '19

Bash and shell expansions: lazy list-making

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Nov 13 '19

A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack

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Nov 5 '19

Publishing GitHub event data with GitHub Actions and Pages

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Oct 28 '19

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

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Oct 23 '19

A portable Makefile for continuous delivery with Hugo and GitHub Pages

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Oct 15 '19

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

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Oct 7 '19

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

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Oct 1 '19

Secure application architecture basics: separation, configuration, and access

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Sep 23 '19

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

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Sep 17 '19

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

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Sep 10 '19

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

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Sep 3 '19

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

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Aug 21 '19

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

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Aug 19 '19

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

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Aug 6 '19

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

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Aug 2 '19

A quick guide to changing your GitHub username

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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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