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I made this because I've seen too many secrets (API keys, passwords, private keys) shared via Slack and MS Teams etc. I've even had a private API key or two in my gmail inbox becau…

> the desk is our habitat Well put. I agree this is the reality, fantasies aside. No doubt many of us have very productive and effective careers without much leaving the desk. But …

This is the question to dwell on I think. I don't know if there are mental ergonomics that apply universally, or even ones that generalise well. For me, I recognise that I think we…

I got it from nic.io. I find iwantmyname.com extremely frustrating and I'm trying to move away from them. YMMV.

I bought this domain for a pet project a few years ago. That project hasn't gone anywhere so I thought I'd offer it up. I'd love to see it used by some documentation repository or …

I was getting so impatient waiting for the stubborn programmer animation to finish. Inspect -> sources -> stubborn.js -> ohhhhhh... well done. On the other hand, I first thought th…

I'm a freelance Ruby on Rails engineer trying to build an audience and develop a personal brand on twitter. To do so, I want to understand how to provide consistent value to a tech…

It's worth noting that with 'dotenv' the configuration is stored in a file on the production server before it's loaded into the environment. The security of the method is not based…

> Session data is marshal-ed Ruby data, deserializing it has the same risks as YAML.load. http://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2013/05/20/a-better-way-to-ma...

I absolutely agree that there's no easy solution to this (or it would've been "fixed" already). > some (most) people never open-source their app, and don't mind employees seeing it…

A few thoughts just on the home page: Love the design overall. Copy is quirky and humorous, but still feels professional. I agree with others that the vertical navigation is probab…

I'll reiterate what others have said, it doesn't give me enough information upfront to look for more. As a web developer, your hook line "Not sure what features to build?" has my a…