Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. Stop Manually Formatting Your Code, Use Pre-commit Hooks Instead Let’s just do the math: If you have 20 developers that are spending five minutes a day manually formatting…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. What is WebAuthn and How Does it Work? I don’t (and won’t) do this very often, but this one is shameless self-promotion. I wrote it for my…

In my previous post, I discussed why passwords are problematic at best and a severe security threat at worst. However, you probably currently have a password-based authentication solution. Hopefully you have implemented some type of Multi-factor Authentication. You might even have implemented Brute Force Password Protection and Breached Password Detection…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. How to stop using If-else and make your code more readable I love this. ‘if’ statements are way overused. I always say “Every time you write an ‘if’ statement, you…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. 20 principles I learned from 10 years of developing software Usually, I find these lists rather banal — but this one is well above average as such lists go…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. The Scoop: Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineering I was not even remotely surprised that this change at Netflix didn’t go well. …

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. Heroku is removing the free tier The article is short and to the point: Heroku is removing its free tier. This is a curious decision…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. Microsoft Dev Box preview allows developers to create on-demand workstations Just another step toward my ultimate dream of doing all my development on a Chromebook. …