Software Development News and Articles

Setting Up a Dev Server Proxy in Vite
Published on: 3/3/2025 - 5 min read
Setting Up a Dev Server Proxy in Vite
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
Is Argon2 Better Than bcrypt?
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
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?
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
How to Use the ENUM type in Your PostgreSQL Databases
## 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
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
A brief introduction to cryptography
### 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...
Implementing the Rail Fence Cipher in JavaScript
Published on: 1/16/2025 - 7 min read
Implementing the Rail Fence Cipher in JavaScript
The Rail Fence Cipher is one of the simplest ciphers in the realm of cryptography. But it's the most visually interesting encryption methods...
How to Reset Your Forgotten PostgreSQL Password on Windows
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...
Why I'm Switching from Google Analytics to Fathom in 2025
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...
What is the state of ASP.NET Web Forms in 2025?
Published on: 1/6/2025 - 5 min read
What is the state of ASP.NET Web Forms in 2025?
As a long-time ASP.NET Web Forms developer who has maintained applications in this framework for over a decade, I understand the uncertainty...
How to Handle Emoji Storage in SQL Server
Published on: 1/2/2025 - 3 min read
How to Handle Emoji Storage in SQL Server
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...
A Developers Guide to A.I. Prompt Engineering
Published on: 12/20/2024 - 9 min read
A Developers Guide to A.I. Prompt Engineering
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....
There's no 'right' way to write code
Published on: 12/17/2024 - 5 min read
There's no 'right' way to write code
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 ...
My favorite developer blogs of 2024
Published on: 12/11/2024 - 4 min read
My favorite developer blogs of 2024
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...
Taking a look at every CSS image filter property
Published on: 12/5/2024 - 5 min read
Taking a look at every CSS image filter property
CSS image filters are a powerful tool for adding effects to images directly in the browser. These filters allow you to manipulate the appear...
This JavaScript error took me weeks to find
Published on: 11/19/2024 - 5 min read
This JavaScript error took me weeks to find
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 ...
How to improve animation performance with JavaScript and CSS
Animating elements on a website can make for a more eye-catching design. But achieving smooth, lag-free animations requires thoughtful optim...
The many ways to sanitize user input in C#
Published on: 10/30/2024 - 4 min read
The many ways to sanitize user input in C#
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...
How to Use the Vibration API for Haptic Feedback in Mobile Web Applications
The JavaScript Vibration API is a powerful yet simple tool that allows developers to trigger vibrations on mobile devices directly through t...