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Ever feel frustrated with so many new things every week? This is a great remind you don’t have to know everything.

An introductory course on cryptography, freely available for programmers of all ages and skill levels. It is created by Principal of Latacora, a security company.

This blog note is in a cycle aimed at less-experienced developers. We will start with real-life code, that the author found in one of their projects. Through a series of steps, they will refactor it to excellent object structure, separated from other parts of the application.

This document explains the IEEE 754 floating-point standard. It explains the binary representation of these numbers, how to convert to decimal from floating point, how to convert from floating point to decimal, discusses special cases in floating point, and finally ends with some C code to further one’s understanding of floating point.

In Prolog, the program logic is expressed in terms of relations, represented as facts and rules. Which makes it well suited to solve logic puzzle. If you want to learn more about Prolog, go here

State machines are widely used to implement network protocols, or, generally, objects that have to react to external events.

Re-create DOOM fire effect in JavaScript.

Postgres extensions are usually in C/C++. I have linked a lot to a Rust links about projects that enable us to write Rust in place of C/C++ before. I think Rust is a great, more approach language for these kind of integration.

A penetration test (pen test) is an authorised attack simulation against an organisations network or applications identifying vulnerabilities and security issues. Designed as a quick reference cheat sheet providing a high level overview of the typical commands you would run when performing a penetration test.

This is megalist, includes many topic and programing languages. Not all of them are good questions but we got something to validate our knowledge and fill in the gaps.