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How Not to Store Passwords

This post will go through a few bad ways to store a password and you can see what I mean.

How to Serve Over 100K Web Pages a Day on a Slower Home Internet Connection

The cheapest way to run a website is from the home Internet connection that you already have. It's essentially free if you host your website on a very low-power computer like a Raspberry Pi. The problem with this approach is that upload bandwidth is often very limited on home Internet connections, so your website may occasionally miss potential traffic during "high-traffic" periods.

Why is This Website Port Scanning me

Recently, I was tipped off about certain sites performing localhost port scans against visitors, presumably as part of a user fingerprinting and tracking or bot detection. This didn't sit well with me, so I went about investigating the practice, and it seems many sites are port scanning visitors for dubious reasons.

Coding is Not Computer Science

Coding is computer science in the same way that buying something at the store is economics, or talking to your neighbor is sociology.

How to prevent code reviews from slowing down your team

Code reviews when not implemented properly can seriously slow down your team’s ability to ship - with many changes stuck in review for multiple days (or weeks!) hurting your product’s time to market.