A couple of weeks ago, I gave a small talk on the Madeira Tech Meetup about a set of HTTP headers that could help website owners protect their assets and their users. The slides are available here, just in case you want to take a look. The content of the talk is basically a small […]
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Sometimes I just need to look into the details of a PGP key that is provided in its “armored” form by some website (not everyone is publishing their keys to the keyservers). Normally I would have to import that key to my keyring or save it into a file and use gnupg to visualize it […]
First of all, DoH stands for “DNS over HTTPS”. So last week Mozilla announced that future versions of Firefox will use DoH by default, a decision that at first sight might seem innocuous or even good but thanks to some implementation details it ended up being very controversial. The reaction that followed the announcement on […]
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Rust examples and exercises
Learning to program in Rust is as easy like other languages out there, because it ends up having different constrains and new concepts that you will have to go through, in the beginning everybody fights the compiler at least a little bit. I started this journey a while ago, however I’ve been progressing slowly just […]
When going on a trip it is now common practice to consider staying on an rented apartment or house instead of an hotel or hostel, mostly thanks to AirBnB which made it really easy and convenient for both side of the deal. Most of the time the price is super competitive and I would say […]
In this post I’m gonna list some very useful tools I often use when developing a Django project. These packages help me improve the development speed, write better code and also find/debug problems faster. So lets start: Black This one is to avoid useless discussions about preferences and taste related to code formatting. Now I […]
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Pixels Camp v3
Like I did in previous years/versions, this year I participated again on Pixels.camp, a kind of conference plus hackathon. For those who aren’t aware, it is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) technology event in Portugal (from a technical perspective not counting with the Web Summit). So, as I did in previous editions, […]
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Easy backups with Borg
One of the oldest and most frequent advises to people working with computers is “create backups of your stuff”. People know about it, they are sick of hearing it, they even advice other people about it, but a large percentage of them don’t do it. There are many tools out there to help you fulfill […]
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Channels and Webhooks
Django is an awesome web framework for python and does a really good job, either for building websites or web APIs using Rest Framework. One area where it usually fell short was dealing asynchronous functionality, it wasn’t its original purpose and wasn’t even a thing on the web at the time of its creation. The […]
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Finding Product Market Fit
Interesting talk addressing the challenges of finding product market fit, in the form of a case study about Weebly . It’s worth the 1h you will spend listening, if you are into this kind of stuff. The transcript and slides can be found on the Startup School’s website.