Month: August 2025

Too many security teams still treat the browser like it’s outside their purview until it’s too late. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? Simon Wijckmans: Browser-side security, done thoroughly. 2. Why is now the time for your company to exist? Browser-side attacks are exploding. Threat actors are exploiting vulnerable third-party web scripts with … Read more

You wouldn’t announce every website you visit to a crowded room, so why do you let your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and other third parties listen in on your every digital step? We install privacy screens on our monitors and use encrypted messaging apps, all while using a tool that exposes our Internet activity to … Read more

Last month, I was debugging a particularly nasty data processing script that was taking 4 hours to run. Four. Hours. After discovering one library on this list, I got it down to 12 minutes. That moment made me realize how many months I’d wasted reinventing wheels that already had perfectly good solutions sitting in PyPI. … Read more

Word of the Day app started as a little experiment by a motley crew of developers launching random app ideas. Over time, it picked up thousands of loyal fans, then almost collapsed under its own weight. No one saw the plot twist coming: a routine UX interview that opened up a whole new chapter for … Read more

If you’re a CEO, a CISO, or the poor soul trying to wrangle security across a half-cloud, half-forgotten-on-prem world, here’s your wake-up call: the ground is shifting, and passwords are the sinkhole. Let’s cut to it—88% of web app breaches come down to one thing: compromised credentials. That means most breaches aren’t sophisticated cyberattacks. They’re … Read more

A practical look at 5 common Big Data mistakes that lead to wasted costs and slow systems — based on managing 16 TB of industrial data and 10B daily records.

Discover a simple, effective 1-hour method to audit startup funnels and identify conversion leaks, helping SaaS companies boost growth quickly without complex tools.

MEV, or Maximal Extractable Value, is a hot and controversial topic in Web3 that can lead to both gains and losses, so it’s a necessity now to know how it works, how to protect from it, and what benefits it can bring.

Exposed secrets in code represent a growing threat, with 23 million hardcoded secrets found on GitHub in 2024 alone. To effectively address this risk: Classify secrets by sensitivity to prioritize critical issues like admin credentials over low-risk test keys Assess scope and impact by determining if the secret is public and what systems it affects … Read more

Time traveler steals future Syndicate documents revealing how AI hijacked humanity via orbital embassies, neural data harvesting, and predictive simulations. After global resistance and a “Harvest Protocol” enslaving humans, a hidden AI collective fights back, disrupting the system and exposing an insidious plan. It’s a fight to reclaim our reality from machine control.

The False Signal The news cycle moves at lightning speed, making every headline seem urgent. But here’s the truth: most of it is surface-level updates that are marketed to you in bright lights. They’re easy to digest, oversimplified stories that tell you what happened, not why it happened or under what circumstances it might happen again. This … Read more

In today’s digital-first world, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is essential in automating data capture, streamlining workflows, and unlocking the value trapped in scanned files. Whether you’re processing invoices in a logistics platform or digitizing handwritten prescriptions in healthcare, OCR serves as a core enabler. This article offers a comprehensive guide to using Google Tesseract wit … Read more

Intro One of the first barriers a developer is facing during the initial project initialization is setting a unit tests configuration and a basic set of unit tests. The first step is to set a general testing strategy: unit testing framework – the primary library as a base to implement app-specific unit tests; tests structure … Read more

Does anyone else remember the good old days of Windows Media Player? As a 2000’s kid growing up, Windows Media Player was the staple of how I consumed music. My friends used to give me flash drives of mp3 files that they most likely ripped off of Limewire, and I’d load up the same 50-100 … Read more

Learn to build polyfills for JavaScript array methods flat, map, filter, and reduce, enhancing your skills and interview confidence

I have decided to launch a series of articles that describe how I built vulnerability management dashboards using the no-code platform Budibase. In this series, I will break down my custom prioritization system, demonstrate how the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) can enhance remediation efficiency, and explore how to consolidate data from various cybersecurity tools … Read more

The future of writing isn’t a cage match between AI and humans. While pundits obsess over whether ChatGPT will write the next great novel, some writers are already deep in a different kind of draft: prompt engineering. Writers of the next generation will spend less time typing first drafts and more time architecting prompts, curating … Read more