When talking about security, hacks, exploits in the world of web application, most people think of very obscure flaws in libraries or operating systems that some attackers (or script kiddies) can exploit and gain boundless access to critical resources on the compromised server or web app. Although these are also

This post was inspired by a question on Reddit: How much of your investment portofolio is crypto? Well, my answer is 0%, and it will remain 0% forever. I don't see the value in it, and the people who advocate for them are hypocrites: they say they get

Over the course of my software development career, I developed some personal rules of thumb that help me structure my code better and write more readable and maintainable code. But first, what is a rule of thumb? For me, it's a principle that I adopted with the experience

Even thought this is basically the most common thing everybody tells you when you are growing up, I've seen that most people still don't internalize it and when they start learning something new, their first instinct is to grab a bunch of tutorials and books and

This post is going to be a slightly more technical one where I will talk about what authentication is, how it looks like under the hood and what you should consider if you decide (or are tasked) to implement it from scratch. I decided to tackle this topic after I

If you are here to get a short yes/no answer, then the answer is a big no . Microservices are not worthy investment of time and effort for an early stage startup. I'll tell you why. But first, how did I come to this conclusion? Well, I started

For a while now, I am flirting with the idea of making a game, based on a combination of economic simulations and space travel. At first, I tried the Godot game engine , but I was fighting the clunkiness of OOP programming with their own GDScript language too much. Then I

As the year is almost complete, I am yet to come up with an MVP for a personal venture I want to pursue. Over the course of 2020 I tried various ideas, explored different markets and wrote plenty of code. But unfortunately, at the end of the year, I don&