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  • Victoria Drake Your cybersecurity starter pack

    Basic security best practices to share with your non-technical friend.

    cybersecurity  7 min read 2020-10-04 04:30:12 -0400 -0400

  • Victoria Drake Increase developer confidence with a great Django test suite

    How to write tests for your Django applications that boost your team, and are actually useful.

    coding  5 min read 2020-10-01 05:50:37 -0400 -0400

  • Victoria Drake Django project best practices to keep your developers happy

    Using Makefiles, pre-commit, and GitHub Actions to help create a happy development team.

    python  6 min read 2020-09-22 04:55:19 -0400 -0400

  • Victoria Drake Manipulating data with Django migrations

    How to update Django models and manipulate existing data using migrations.

    coding  5 min read 2020-09-14 02:12:57 -0400 -0400

  • Victoria Drake What is TLS? Transport Layer Security encryption explained in plain english

    How TLS, digital certificates, and sessions help keep communications secure.

    cybersecurity  5 min read 2020-09-05 04:48:39 -0600 -0600

  • Victoria Drake Deceptively simple search-and-replace across multiple files

    How to interactively search-and-replace across many files with just two commands, thanks to Vim.

    terminal  2 min read 2020-08-25 04:48:39 -0600 -0600

  • Victoria Drake How GitHub Codespaces increases productivity and lowers barriers

    A look at how GitHub Codespaces can increase productivity and help new teammates and contributors start developing fast.

    open source  3 min read 2020-08-15 16:08:08 -0400 -0400

  • Victoria Drake The opportunity cost canary

    It’s hard to see something you’re ignoring.

    Opportunity costs are incurred when you …

     3 min read 2020-08-13 22:38:19 -0400 -0400

  • Victoria Drake It didn't happen exactly like that

    The first people you sell to are the ones who work for you.

    For a very brief moment a bajillion …

     3 min read 2020-08-05 09:07:42 -0400 -0400

  • Victoria Drake How to create a self-documenting Makefile

    Accelerate your workflow and DevOps with command-line aliases you can check in

    coding  4 min read 2020-08-05 08:55:19 -0400 -0400

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Victoria Drake

Victoria Drake

Victoria Drake is a Director of Engineering in Washington, DC. She is a core maintainer and co-author for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Web Security Testing Guide. She earned the annual Top Contributor award three years in a row from the freeCodeCamp non-profit, and was recognized two years in a row as a Distinguished Author on the DEV.to developer platform. She writes and educates programmers and business leaders about cybersecurity, software development, and building happy and productive technical teams.

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