security: cross-site request forgery mitigation

2020-10-20

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~3 min read

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507 words

Security for applications is a huge topic and it’s only growing in importance. Today, I was reviewing the OWASP Cheat Sheet for Cross-Site…

jest: mocking node's fs

2020-10-19

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~5 min read

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993 words

I hit some road blocks with recently which are motivating a refactoring with an eye toward reliability through testing.1 Since ’s primary…

volta: a global toolchain manager for javascript

2020-10-18

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~4 min read

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622 words

At the office, our recommended toolchain manager for Javascript is Volta. As someone who has struggled with global | packages in the past, I…

`nom`: project check-in, october 2020

2020-10-17

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~9 min read

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1610 words

I’ve been working on , a small CLI for managing markdown notes (which ultimately become the fodder for this blog) since late July. Three…

zsh: keyboard shortcuts

2020-10-16

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~2 min read

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281 words

Though potentially less daunting than Vim or Emacs, mastering is a long road, but a few keyboard shortcuts can help to make you feel much…

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