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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 Add search to Hugo static sites with Lunr
Make your static site searchable with a client-side search index.

websites 7 min read 2021-01-26 09:25:17 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake What is TCP/IP? Layers and protocols explained
Alternatively titled, "Why the Internet Protocol Suite is an imaginary rainbow layer cake"

computing 5 min read 2020-11-29 04:01:22 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Build your own serverless subscriber list with Go and AWS
How to build your own newsletter list with DynamoDB and SES email sign up confirmations.

api 7 min read 2020-11-10 04:52:50 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake Three rules for choosing a VPN that takes your privacy seriously
The lesser-known risks of ISPs and why I chose ExpressVPN.

privacy 6 min read 2020-10-18 04:41:37 -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 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 2020-03-16 08:12:32 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake SQLite in production with WAL 🔥
An underappreciated candidate for light and fast database transactions.

data 4 min read 2020-03-05 10:14:43 -0500 -0500
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 2020-02-28 09:31:02 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack
How a simple scheduled job can help you quickly recover from ransomware.

cybersecurity 7 min read 2019-11-13 08:27:31 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Publishing GitHub event data with GitHub Actions and Pages
A guide to overcoming the GitHub event data horizon with a little command-line magic.

data 8 min read 2019-11-04 09:13:23 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Secure application architecture basics: separation, configuration, and access
A starting point for building secure application architecture, for busy developers.

cybersecurity 8 min read 2019-09-30 08:03:12 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Migrating to the cloud but without screwing it up, or how to move house
A practical guide to moving to cloud services with minimal downtime, using AWS examples.

aws 11 min read 2019-09-23 08:03:12 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Hackers are Googling your plain text passwords: preventing sensitive data exposure
Why sensitive data controls need to be established long before you think you need them, as demonstrated by Google dorking.

cybersecurity 8 min read 2019-09-09 09:10:11 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake SQL injection and XSS: what white hat hackers know about trusting user input
A primer on SQL injection and cross site scripting, and how to handle user input in software development.

cybersecurity 11 min read 2019-09-02 09:01:23 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake How to write Bash one-liners for cloning and managing GitHub and GitLab repositories
Using xargs and awk in Bash to automate managing remote-hosted repositories.

terminal 8 min read 2019-08-06 10:55:19 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Knapsack problem algorithms for my real-life carry-on knapsack
Using a greedy algorithm and dynamic programming to pack my full-time nomad travel bag.

algorithms 23 min read 2018-05-09 21:00:35 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Things you need to know about becoming a Data Scientist
Five Data Scientists discuss a day in the life and what it takes to be a successful Data Scientist.

data 8 min read 2017-03-31 13:19:19 +0900 +0900

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