- Victoria Drake
How to choose and care for a secure open source project
A few tricks for assessing the security of an open source project.
Open-Source
8 min read
- Victoria Drake
If you want to build a treehouse, start at the bottom
How threat modeling and pushing left help create a stable foundation for secure software.
Cybersecurity
5 min read
- Victoria Drake
Hugo vs Jekyll: an epic battle of static site generator themes
A comparison of nuances of creating themes for the top two static site generators.
Websites
13 min read
- Victoria Drake
Outsourcing security with 1Password, Authy, and Privacy.com
Take some work off your plate while beefing up security with three changes you can make today.
Cybersecurity
5 min read
- Victoria Drake
SQLite in production with WAL
An underappreciated candidate for light and fast database transactions.
Data
4 min read
- Victoria Drake
Multithreaded Python: slithering through an I/O bottleneck
How taking advantage of parallelism in Python can make your software orders of magnitude faster.
Python
5 min read
- Victoria Drake
Breaking bottlenecks 🍾
A talk on the benefits of non-blocking functions for programs, developers, and organizations.
Computing
12 min read
- Victoria Drake
Command line tricks for managing your messy open source repository
A handy toolbox for the terminal to help open source maintainers make their projects sparkle.
Terminal
5 min read
- Victoria Drake
Why PixelFed won't save us from Instagram
Why decentralized photo sharing won't save us from Instagram - but it might help.
Life
11 min read
- Victoria Drake
The past ten years, or, how to get better at anything
Thoughts on learning software development, technical blogging, and what the past ten years have taught me.
Life
9 min read