This is a space where I express my thoughts and opinions on mostly technical things - sidkshatriya/me

Posted in r/programming by u/ridiculous_fish • 107 points and 17 comments

Flask 2.0 - New Major Version Released | Flask 2.0 has dropped support for Python 2 and 3.5, Python 3.6 is the minimum supported version.

Posted in r/programming by u/Potentially_Canadian • 611 points and 26 comments

An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C. Contribute to eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine development by creating an account on GitHub.

A simple CLI for tracking your working time. Contribute to dominikbraun/timetrace development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here's my favorite git feature that no one knows about:

You can reference commits using the commit message instead of the hash. The ":/" syntax accepts a regex that matches any part of the commit message, returning the youngest matching commit.

https:/…

Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday after a crippling cyberattack that shut the largest fuel pipeline network in the United States, Bloomberg News reported, citing two people familiar with the transaction.

The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The crime gang announced it was closing up shop…

Posted in r/programming by u/sportifynews • 143 points and 55 comments

NodeJS is awesome as a backend development platform: it is fully asynchronous, it is cross-platform, it is compatible with browser development language, and ...

One of the factors contributing to Counter-Strike Global Offensive’s (herein “CS:GO”) massive popularity is the ability for anyone to host their own community server. These community servers are free to download and install and allow for a high grade of customization.…

How and why we spend trillions to keep old software going

Free Programming Books on Android development, C, C#, CSS, HTML5, iOS development, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, PHP, Python, SQL Sever and more

Half a year ago, I joined Pleo, a FinTech startup with around 15,000 customers (we’re always hiring at Pleo!). I joined to take on and further develop the billing infrastructure. When I joined, I was actually a bit concerned about the narrowness of the new…

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