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  • Victoria Drake Set up a Pi-hole VPN on an AWS Lightsail instance

    Build your own VPN with Pi-hole to block ads and trackers.

    privacy  7 min read 2021-10-07 11:01:13 +0000 UTC

  • Victoria Drake Measuring productivity with GitHub issues

    Can a little Pandas help improve your development velocity?

    data  4 min read 2021-08-30 05:35:02 +0000 UTC

  • Victoria Drake There are better options for a privacy-respecting phone

    Meet the new, better Apple. Here's how to choose your phone and set it up.

    privacy  8 min read 2021-08-11 11:37:35 +0000 UTC

  • Victoria Drake Building in context

    The best laid plans are made better by staying close to context.

    leadership  5 min read 2021-08-09 03:17:49 +0000 UTC

  • Victoria Drake Leading with a cybersecurity mindset

    Systems for considering software development from a security standpoint.

    cybersecurity  5 min read 2021-07-27 04:26:26 -0400 -0400

  • Victoria Drake A GitHub guide for non-technical leaders

    How leaders can get to where the work happens and take part in business decisions on GitHub.

    leadership  6 min read 2021-05-24 00:00:00 +0000 UTC

  • Victoria Drake Digital resilience: redundancy for websites and communications

    How you can make your digital life more resilient when using services you don't own.

    privacy  5 min read 2021-02-22 04:00:43 -0500 -0500

  • Victoria Drake Create a self-hosted chat service with your own Matrix server

    A speed-run introduction to Matrix via Dendrite.

    privacy  6 min read 2021-02-15 01:38:07 -0500 -0500

  • Victoria Drake Do I raise or return errors in Python?

    Raise, return, and how to never fail silently in Python.

    python  4 min read 2021-02-09 05:34:48 -0500 -0500

  • Victoria Drake What tech leaders do before going on vacation

    How to be a responsible leader even while you're away.

    leadership  3 min read 2021-02-01 04:02:54 -0600 -0600

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Victoria Drake

Victoria Drake

Victoria Drake is an experienced software engineer with a unique background in technical and executive leadership. She loves to help technology teams raise programming proficiency and streamline development processes. Victoria is an award-winning technical author and open source community mentor. She serves as core maintainer and co-author for the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide.

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