An experiment that uses hardware security keys (like a YubiKey) to replace CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: if a real human is sitting at their keyboard or uses their phone, they can touch their security key’s button or bring it near their…

JavaScript has come a long way since I knew it as the “D” in DHTML. For anyone like me, who’s been reluctant to use the latest syntax that could require polyfills or a transpiler, I’ve written this cheatsheet to get you caught up on all the goodness that’s…

Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons

GitLab now requires new users to provide a valid credit or debit card in order to use free pipeline minutes on GitLab.com SaaS.

Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX...

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Technical Writing Courses for Engineers

Clarity of communication is one of the most underrated skills as a developer.

I love building developer tools and utilities. And, I believe the reason is simple, because I am a developer, and those tools I make, I create first of all for myself. I worked for Microsoft before on Visual Studio.
I worked in Splunk on some work related…

With Site Isolation enabled on Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla takes its security guarantees to the next level.

Posted in r/programming by u/fagnerbrack • 102 points and 69 comments

This is a typing interface for an Xbox controller similar to the one I put together for a Steam controller: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamControl...

The code is available on Github: https://github.com/bbbales2/xbox_keyb...
There is a Reddit thread for discussion:…

Concurrency and parallelism are two terms often used in relation to multithreaded applications. This tutorial explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism.

How in 1982, the author successfully hacked his way out of having to fill in potholes.

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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