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Victoria Drake is writing about:
- The past ten years, or, how to get better at anything
life ☕️☕️ 9 min read
Thoughts on learning software development, technical blogging, and what the past ten years have taught me.
- Healthy habits for good cybersecurity
cybersecurity ☕️ 4 min read
A few helpful cybersecurity resolutions to take into the new year. Happy holidays!
- Concurrency, parallelism, and the many threads of Santa Claus 🎅
computing ☕️☕️ 7 min read
A seasonal exploration of the difference between concurrent, parallel, and multithreaded processes.
- Word bugs in software documentation and how to fix them
docs ☕️ 4 min read
A collection of mistakes that make documentation less awesome than it could be.
- User interface security for the front-end developer
cybersecurity ☕️ 4 min read
Best practices that contribute to cybersecurity, for the user interface.
- How to print newlines in command line output
coding ☕️ 4 min read
String interpolation quirks to consider when printing escape sequences for humans.
- The care and feeding of an IoT device
cybersecurity ☕️ 4 min read
Why IoT devices are, basically, puppies, and whether or not you should give somebody one for Christmas.
- Bash and shell expansions: lazy list-making
linux ☕️ 5 min read
A tour of brace expansion, shell parameter expansions, and playing with substrings in Bash.
- A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack
cybersecurity ☕️☕️ 7 min read
How a simple scheduled job can help you quickly recover from ransomware.