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I love code and protecting people.

Cultural Issues with Product Security in Modern Tech

Apr 3, 2020

Introduction Although it's debatable whether or not most tech employees "care" about security of customer data and product security, I haven't been able to get anyone to tell me in writing that they don't. Verbal claims aren't generally very useful i...

Programming is highly subjective

Dec 12, 2019

One thing I've come to learn in my journey as a computer programmer, is that programming is highly subjective. It isn't necessarily subjective by necessity, but the manifestation of it as it is in 2019 is with things like the so-called "Social Coding...

Beware of YouTube Tutorials

Dec 7, 2019

Tutorials are great. We all love them and they help so much. But always double-check code you learn to write from a tutorial because there is no guarantee that they are free from bugs or even complete. Some authors post a disclaimer while others do n...

Why they say "Don't roll your own crypto."

Nov 5, 2019

Many of you have seen it at some point during your development career - you need to implement some security-related feature in an app and then you start ferociously searching the web for terms like "How to properly encrypt a password," "How to obfusc...

How to Secure Your App

Oct 27, 2019

I've begun compiling a list of resources to answer the question "How do I secure my app?" It works by going to the page, finding your technology stack using Ctrl+F or Cmd+F and then visiting the resources. All resources have the top most common pitfa...

Why I created a NodeBB "forum" in 2019

Oct 22, 2019

Some of the very younger audience may not remember, but most of us can probably remember the good ole' myBB, phpBB, that perl-based cgi forum, and good ole' gold standard vBulletin back in the day... Forums, or "message boards" as they were called - ...

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