I’m a software engineer with an interest in human-computer interaction, and I’ve been working on a project to help people learn how to program.

It's called CodeCombat, and it's available now! I was inspired by my own experience learning programming. I started out as a kid playing around with BASIC on my dad's old PCjr (which had no graphics ...

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If you’re looking for a good, cheap, and easy way to get into the game of disc golf (aka Frisbee golf), this is it.

I love playing disc golf. It’s one of my favorite things to do with friends on a nice day. I also like that it doesn’t require much in the way of equipment or skill; anyone can pick up a frisbee and ...

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Don’t use access tokens for authentication.

API #3: Excessive Data Exposure The third vulnerability is excessive data exposure, which happens when an API exposes too much information about users or resources. This can be a big problem because ...

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APIs are the new frontier for security.

To protect your APIs, you need to understand how they work and what makes them vulnerable. You also need to know which threats can target them and how to prevent attacks from happening in the first pl ...

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– Advertisement – ot only a threat to the security of your organization, but also to the performance and availability of your applications.

The issue is that bots are hard to detect because they mimic human behavior. They can be programmed to make requests at random intervals or in bursts, which makes it difficult for traditional security ...

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The book is an excellent introduction to the topic, and I highly recommend it.

The first thing that struck me about this book was its size: at just over 200 pages, it’s a very quick read. It covers all of the basics in great detail, but doesn’t get bogged down with unnecessary ...

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I’m not a fan of this book.

I don’t recommend it to anyone, and I won’t be reading the sequels https://t.co/DFUzRoaabK ...

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Use OAuth2 for SSO with OpenID Connect.

If you’re building a web API, it’s likely that your users will need to access the API from multiple devices and browsers. It would be inconvenient if they had to log in every time! Instead, you can ...

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