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It sounds pretty fair to me. I would look at it more like I'm getting a stipend to spend a few months learning if I really want to devote the next 5 years of my life building stuff…

"Get shit done" is by far the most important attribute of your first few employees. You need people who can work independently without a lot of direction, and focus on the right th…

> - System design at ~whiteboard still feels reasonable / CS basics. Bingo. Timeless classic for good reason. Code review also can be good, not in a "can you spot the 17 bugs" way,…

More about what you actually do -- I'd suggest something like "Secure, Sustainable Open Source: We partner with open source projects to monitor their upstream dependencies for secu…

Simply being first isn't the moat -- _switching cost_ is the moat. You've got to get people using your app in order for being first to matter. And the easier it is for those users …

You realistically only have time for one of the following: 1. be a serious student 2. be a serious athlete 3. be a serious maker 4. be a serious business-person My advice would be …

This tactic is usually used as a diversion, either to bury an important email message (like a notification that your credentials to an important account have changed) in a flood of…

If this is her personal phone number, then it's likely available from any number of "legitimate" data brokers; plus likely would be part of various database dumps you can buy on th…

I loved Lemmings (the game) as a kid! But as an adult, I found out everything I thought I knew about lemmings (the animal) was a lie: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilder…

This was part of the original Netscape 6 pre-releases in the late 90s. Looks like the search button was added to the URL bar for milestone 11: http://www.andrewturnbull.net/mozilla…

Buy a cheap Android phone on eBay, use it on Wi-Fi for work accounts instead of your personal phone.

OWASP Cheat Sheet Series [1] is a great place to start (for websites or HTTP services generally). Also see their Web Security Testing Guide [2] for a comprehensive list of security…

Set up an Asterisk box and connect it to a SIP trunking service (like Twilio or a bunch of other similar providers) to make and receive regular phone calls. Use the same provider t…

Yes. You can use a combination of the built-in passkey support on some of your devices (like the platform authenticators built into iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android), external hard…

Or you can use an external hardware security key; the latest versions of most security keys (like YubiKey 5, Nitrokey 3, etc) support Passkeys. Passkeys are basically just U2F 2.0,…