Month summary — April 2024

This article shares some of the lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days.

Here follows a brief description on how you can detect if the curl package would ever make an xz.

If you aren’t using a read-only filesystem on your Raspberry Pi, you should reduce the amount of stuff that gets written to its SD card. This will help increase the card’s lifespan and keep your Pi running smoothly.

Our philosophy to scaling is simple, avoid premature optimization.

My Simple Framework to Turn Side Projects into Career Boosters

I want to talk about something we don’t discuss enough in our field: the mental health of software engineers, especially those of us who’ve taken on the challenge of leadership.

Learning how to build beautiful products without burning myself out (again). Writing about what I discovered along the way.

Tutorial hell

Jedno źródło wszystkich rzek. Może by tu czegoś dolać?

While admittedly most juicy and interesting part is the obfuscated binary with the backdoor, the part that caught my attention – and what this blogpost is about – is the initial part in bash and the simple-but-clever obfuscation methods used there.

A few examples that will save the day probably* 95% of time.

Choosing where to invest one’s time in learning new technologies is a personal decision, shaped by individual preferences, project requirements, and long-term goals.

Slow queries happen, and when they do, it can be tough to dissect why they’re slow. This difficulty is compounded by using Django’s ORM, since it generates the SQL for you, so you may have little idea of the actual queries “under the hood”.

This report is based on the third annual Django Developers Survey, conducted in September – October 2023 as a collaborative effort between the Django Software Foundation and PyCharm. To help us get a better idea of the current state of the framework and the ecosystem around it, around 4,000 Django users and enthusiasts from around the world took the survey.

With VPC Service Controls, the Cyber Center of Excellence at Commerzbank set the standard for controlling data flow.

A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet’s core.