Mattie Behrens on Atomic Spin

Security Hygiene for Software Professionals

Taking responsibility for your security hygiene is essential and not very difficult. Here are 7 things you should start doing as soon as possible.

Development Practices

The Security Spectrum of curl | sh

curl | sh, though somewhat risky, isn't intrinsically insecure as a pattern. If you know what can go wrong, you'll be better-equipped to wisely use it.

DevOps & System Admin.

Easy Secure Web Serving with OpenBSD’s acme-client and Let’s Encrypt

Using OpenBSD, acme-client, and Let's Encrypt, it's almost entirely painless to set up a secure web server. This post walks you through getting set up.

Development Practices

[Video] Command Injection: How the Shell Makes You Vulnerable

Command Injection can present a serious vulnerability, allowing attackers to run commands in the shell. This video covers how to defend against it.

Web Apps

Date Math Across Time Zones with Moment.js

How to use Moment.js to deal with time and time zones in JavaScript, including an overview of several essential time zone concepts.

Development Practices

Why You Shouldn’t “npm install -g”

Why you should never "npm install -g" a Node.js package when a project-local install will do.

Web Apps

JavaScript Promises – How They’ll Work Someday

JavaScript Promises are good, but still carry friction for the developer. Here's how future JavaScript developments will make using Promises better.

Web Apps

JavaScript Promises – How They Break

JavaScript Promises are great, but there's a number of subtle misuses that can break them. We'll walk through some common mistakes and how to avoid them.

Web Apps

JavaScript Promises – How They Work

The best way to deal with asynchronous JavaScript is ES6 Promises. Here's an overview of JavaScript Promises, error catching, and how to make your own.

Web Apps

Precision Decimal Math in JavaScript with decimal.js

Using floating-point math in JavaScript introduces errors, which is why you should use a decimal library for precision calculation.

Developer Tools, iOS / OS X

Developing on OS X Inside Vagrant

Leverage templates for Packer to build an OS X Vagrant box to develop OS X applications without risking the good working order of your Mac.

Development Practices

Swiss Cheese and Pair Programming

How Swiss cheese makes a useful metaphor to explain how pair programming creates better software.

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