The "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication scheme, transmits credentials as user-id/password pairs, encoded using Base64. The server will gather the credentials from the base64 ...

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It’s rare to see a solo founder building a widely adopted developer infrastructure tool. Even more so if the founder happens to be from Africa. Bereket Engida, a self-taught programmer from Ethiopia, ...

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A massive botnet of over 130,000 compromised devices is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide, targeting basic authentication to evade multi-factor ...

Recently, I wrote an introduction to Express.js in a two-part series that starts from the basics and advances to using a datastore with templates and HTMX for dynamic UI interactions. We’ll do the ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...