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### 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...

The Rail Fence Cipher is one of the simplest ciphers in the realm of cryptography. But it's the most visually interesting encryption methods...

Forgetting the default root password that you set up 6 months ago in your PostgreSQL database installation is a part of being a developer. I...

For the past 10 years I've used Google Analytics exclusively on all of my websites and projects. It's free, relatively easy to implement and...

As a long-time ASP.NET Web Forms developer who has maintained applications in this framework for over a decade, I understand the uncertainty...

If you’ve ever run into the dreaded ?? problem, this guide will walk you through how to properly configure your database to store emojis and...

For the past few years everyone in the A.I. world has been pushing the narrative that prompt engineering is the future and the only career option you'll soon have. And if you don't learn it now, you're going to be out of luck when finding a job....

When I taught for a coding bootcamp years ago one of the more popular sentiments that people would often share is that they wanted to learn ...

If you're reading this, then I can only assume that you still enjoy the process of reading medium to long form content on the internet. As d...

CSS image filters are a powerful tool for adding effects to images directly in the browser. These filters allow you to manipulate the appear...

A big portion of my blog as of late is the Typing Test area that I created over a year ago to test my own 'words-per-minute'. But ...

Animating elements on a website can make for a more eye-catching design. But achieving smooth, lag-free animations requires thoughtful optim...

When we think of sanitizing user input, we often focus on the client facing portion of it, meaning setting appropriate types for our input e...

The JavaScript Vibration API is a powerful yet simple tool that allows developers to trigger vibrations on mobile devices directly through t...

A.I. coding assistants have not been out in the wild for too long, but definitely long enough that you either use them in your professional ...

OpenAI recently unveiled their newest feature addition to the ChatGPT interface, canvases. And after a week of taking it for a tes...

One of the most powerful, but not often seen or used, features of JavaScript are proxies. Proxies were introduced in ECMAScript 6 and they a...

If you're building a React application then understanding how and when to use the useCallback hook can help prevent unnecessary re...

The HTML5 Drag and Drop API offers a simple method for allowing the movement of HTML objects around a webpage. In the past, this typically i...

Generating unique ID's is a common practice in most modern web applications. Whether you're building APIs, databases, or client-side applica...