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Using BCrypt in C# to Hash Passwords

Published on: 3/17/2025 - 3 min read

Password security is a critical aspect of software development. Storing passwords in plaintext is a major security risk, as a data breach co...

Automatically Logging Errors in Express with Pino

Published on: 3/14/2025 - 3 min read

## Introduction Logging errors is crucial for debugging and monitoring your Express.js applications. While Pino is known for its high-perfo...

Building a Simple CSV File Preview with Pure JavaScript

Published on: 3/11/2025 - 16 min read

Ever wanted to let users preview CSV files right in their browser without any complex libraries? In this guide, we'll build a simple yet e...

Code, Context, and AI: Why Human Developers Still Matter

Published on: 3/6/2025 - 5 min read

This year has been somewhat of a wake up call to the developer community in terms of A.I. It seems like each and every month now a new tool ...

Implementing Argon2id Password Hashing in C#

Published on: 3/5/2025 - 4 min read

Argon2id is the gold standard for password hashing, combining the best features of Argon2i and Argon2d to provide excellent security against...

Setting Up a Dev Server Proxy in Vite

Published on: 3/3/2025 - 5 min read

During local development with Vite, you'll often encounter CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) errors when your frontend tries to communica...

Is Argon2 Better Than bcrypt?

Published on: 2/26/2025 - 3 min read

If you've worked on any authentication system in the last decade, you've probably used [bcrypt](https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/116...

It's Not A.I. - Junior Developers Have Always Struggled to Code

Published on: 2/24/2025 - 4 min read

AI, as of late, is taking the blame for making junior developers “worse” at writing code, but in my 20 years of experience—junior devs have ...

Is SHA-256 Alone Sufficient for Password Security?

Published on: 2/21/2025 - 6 min read

You've built a sleek new web application with user accounts, and now you need to store passwords. Like any security-conscious developer, you...

How to Use the ENUM type in Your PostgreSQL Databases

Published on: 2/17/2025 - 5 min read

## Understanding ENUM in Databases: When and How to Use It When building a database schema, you will often encounter situations where a col...

Why I Finally Decided to Upgrade To GitHub Copilot Pro

Published on: 2/13/2025 - 6 min read

If you had asked me a year whether I thought that AI generated code was decent enough for production, I would have probably said no. The hal...

A brief introduction to cryptography

Published on: 1/23/2025 - 5 min read

### Introduction to Cryptography If you're a software engineer of any kind in this day and age, then you no doubt work (or have worked) wit...

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