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Right now, this site is suffering a hug of death. This looks like the same article: https://dev.to/martinheinz/ultimate-guide-to-python-debuggin...

It can't! But after the first time it's been contacted, when you contact it again HSTS will enforce HTTPS (from the client itself - much stronger than a redirect).

This will leave your users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. If I control the router between their computer and the Internet, I can serve back a HTTP page which doesn't redi…

It doesn't have to be expensive, either in financial terms, opportunity cost or other people's time. That's exactly the problem we've solved with Skiller Whale - we make good train…

Form a limited company and run the site from that. If you're prepared to shut the site down anyway, then that remains the worst thing that can happen for non-compliance. There's no…

The ICO has a tiny staff and is already underfunded. The grace period is a pragmatic one not one enshrined in law!

It seems like more research into GDPR could have prevented this. Firstly, there's nothing this site does that is so unusual. If the user gives explicit and informed consent for the…

Some questions I'd ask, off the top of my head: Have you ever tried a touchscreen computer? Was it better than when you use a mouse? Why? Which interface do you prefer - your compu…

"I’ve rarely encountered discussions of contagion." This surprised me: contagion is a good metaphor because it is a compounding measure of the growth of the problem. Just like an i…

I'm working on a product like this at the moment to solve exactly those problems. On Twitter @h_carver if you want to chat more! Or if you want to wait 6 months and find out why I …

Yeah, the UK National Curriculum says children need to learn a visual language (like Scratch) and then a text based one (like Python). Your kids should be doing visual coding in sc…

Depends whether you want to teach code or computer science (and code). I wrote a book to teach 7-11 year olds to code in Python and Scratch and teach them some computer science alo…

Hey, you should try this book which Scholastic published www.goodreads.com/book/show/28232614-coding-unlocked#other_reviews It's available as an ebook as well as in paper. Short pi…

"Most startup failures were caused by building the wrong product, or lacking strong sales skills, or not having a viable business model" Startup technical diligence needs to check …

This is my favourite kind of post to read: a tool I don't know well, and someone using it enthusiastically to solve a real-world problem.

BridgeU | London, UK | Onsite What: bringing intelligence and analytics to the process of applying to universities around the world. We're a scalable EdTech company, already sold t…

This article is totally on-point. MVPs are the minimal viable test for confirming your hypotheses. While running a startup consultancy, the idea that MVP is a thing you make once b…

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