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THE INFOSEC GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF ZERO TRUST

SECURING YOUR REACT NATIVE FRONTEND: A DEVELOPER’S GUIDE

SECURITY HUB GIVES ME IMPOSTER SYNDROME

NETEXEC

NetExec (a.k.a nxc) is a network service exploitation tool that helps automate assessing the security of large networks.

TRIVY-OPERATOR

NORD STREAM

Nord Stream is a tool for deploying malicious pipelines in a CI/CD environment to extract secrets. By default, Nord Stream will also attempt to remove any logs that it made with its deployment. Currently, GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps are supported.

TAKE A NOTE OF SPYNOTE!

WORDPRESS ADMINS

THE EVOLUTION OF NORTH KOREAN ANDROID SPYWARE

SPANISH AIRLINE AIR EUROPA HIT BY CREDIT CARD SYSTEM BREACH

EU REQUESTS FEEDBACK ON NEW SECURITY CERTIFICATION SCHEMA

ZERO

WRITE DRAFTS

THREADS IS ROLLING OUT AN EDIT BUTTON, AND IT’S FREE

USE VALUE-BASED BIDDING TO SUCCEED WITH GOOGLE ADS

7 CASE STUDIES ON SEO STRATEGY

FREE MULTI-CHANNEL B2B CAMPAIGN PLANNING TEMPLATE

21 CHROME EXTENSIONS FOR SEO

WHY FREE PRODUCT + PAID MEDIA = DEATH FOR SUBSCRIPTION COMPANIES

HOW META, TIKTOK AD-FREE TIERS COULD IMPACT ADVERTISER BUDGETS

A FIRST-TIME VP OF MARKETING’S PRIORITY LIST

A B2B’S BUYER JOURNEY IS AN ECOSYSTEM

ON IMPORTANCE OF NAMING IN PROGRAMMING

HOW CODE COVERAGE CAN BE USEFUL

NODE CONFIG HELL

Many production-ready Next.js projects require almost 30 configuration files to run. Having so many configurations can hinder developer productivity. The problem arises from the unopinionated nature of the JavaScript ecosystem, where the same code needs to be adaptable to various frameworks and tools. However, there are solutions with zero configs and smart defaults.

ENGINEER

SCROLLBARS ARE BECOMING A PROBLEM

The shrinking size of scrollbars in modern software interfaces poses challenges for individuals with fine motor control problems or those who rely on alternative input methods. This author provides a comprehensive overview of the problem across various platforms and offers valuable insights into the need for user-configurable options to address it. They provide configuration tips for Firefox, but found Chrome hard to configure.

INTEGRATING AI TOOLS INTO YOUR WORKFLOW

OORT

Oort is an interactive programming game that challenges players to write Rust code to manage a fleet of spaceships, each with various functions such as engines, weapons, radar, and communication systems. The game offers a range of ships, from small missiles to massive cruisers, for players to control and program. It’s a way for developers to practice Rust in an entertaining manner.

SCALAR

Scalar generates interactive API documentation from Swagger files, offering a live demo for users to try. It supports Swagger/OpenAPI specification files, provides request examples for various programming languages and frameworks, includes an integrated API client, and allows users to edit Swagger files with a live preview.

NICE MODAL

Nice Modal is a lightweight utility for React that simplifies the management of modals without any external dependencies. It leverages React's context feature to maintain the state of modals globally.

GROWING AS AN ENGINEER AT STRIPE

The author of this article worked at Stripe Tax, a complex project aimed at simplifying tax compliance for businesses. They describe how they learned about taxes and emphasize the importance of user experience in their work. They also highlight their continuous learning experiences at Stripe, including friction logs, API reviews, learning from other teams, utilizing the education budget, and participating in various internal communities, such as Unidos.

THE ICEBERG OF ENGINEERING INCIDENT COSTS

EASY-TO-USE IS HARD TO BUILD

HTTP/2 RAPID RESET ATTACK IMPACTING F5 NGINX PRODUCTS

14 LINTING RULES TO HELP YOU WRITE ASYNCHRONOUS CODE IN JAVASCRIPT

5 WAYS TO MEASURE EXECUTION TIME IN PYTHON

JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORKS: ENHANCE YOUR WEB DEVELOPMENT

SPACEX DEBUTS NEW WEBSITE FOR CELLULAR STARLINK SERVICE

SpaceX's upcoming Starlink for mobile phones will give customers access to LTE text, voice, and data across the globe. It will be able to service unmodified smartphones. SpaceX was originally hoping to launch with T-Mobile, but the companies have been silent about the deal since its announcement. The new Starlink for mobile website indicates that SpaceX plans to launch the voice and text service in 2025.

OPENAI PLANS MAJOR UPDATES TO LURE DEVELOPERS WITH LOWER COSTS

OpenAI plans to introduce major updates to its API next month, including memory storage and vision capabilities. The new features are expected to be rolled out at the company's first-ever developer conference on November 6. They are designed to attract more developers to pay for access to OpenAI's models. OpenAI is aiming to hit $1 billion in revenue by 2024.

FIRST-EVER GENE THERAPY TRIAL TO CURE FORM OF DEAFNESS BEGINS

Up to 18 children from the UK, Spain, and the US are being recruited for the world's first trial of a gene therapy to cure auditory neuropathy, a condition caused by the disruption of nerve impulses traveling from the inner ear to the brain. The condition can be caused by a variation in a single gene that produces a protein that allows inner hair cells in the ear to communicate with the hearing nerve. The study aims to deliver a working copy of the gene using a modified non-pathogenic virus. Participants will be monitored for five years to gauge whether the treatment works.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM IEDM 2023 THIS DECEMBER

The 69th Annual IEEE International Electron Device Meeting is set to start on December 9. This article presents a teaser of some of the technologies that will be presented at the conference. Chip companies can no longer keep on increasing transistor density by scaling down chip features in two dimensions, so they are now stacking chips on top of each other and building transistors on top of each other within chips. Many of these technologies will likely serve machine learning, an application with an ever-growing need for more processing power.

CSS RELATIVE COLOR SYNTAX

Relative color syntax is a powerful color feature from CSS Color Level 4 in Chrome 119. It creates a smooth path for color manipulation within CSS and offers ways to lighten, darken, saturate, desaturate, and more. Relative color syntax can be used to create a brand color with any color space or syntax and create half opacity variants with much less code. It makes it easy to read the intent of styles and systems. This post helps readers learn the syntax by demonstrating common color manipulations.

THINGS I WISH SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TOLD ME ABOUT CONFIGURING VSCODE

This article contains a list of VS Code optimizations that make things easier for developers. Examples include hiding the .vscode folder globally, enabling formatters and linter extensions at the workspace level, and using the built-in terminal. Links to pages with more VS Code tips and tricks are available at the end of the article.

AI ENGINEER SUMMIT REPORT

AI is easy - turning a demo into a product is the real challenge. Working with AI is difficult due to having to deal with non-deterministic outputs. Developers get a different result every time they run their code. Evaluating code in AI apps is hard. These issues were key themes throughout the inaugural AI Engineer Summit held this week. This article contains a summary of key takeaways from the summit.

FEDERATED PLATFORMS

Anyone using the hosted version of WordPress can now connect their blogs to federated platforms like Mastodon. The integration allows blog owners to share their posts on other platforms and receive replies from those platforms. The blogs themselves can be used as fediverse profiles. The feature can be turned on by toggling the 'Enter the fediverse' option from within the Discussion section in WordPress' blog settings.