“Rest APIs are REST-in-Peace APIs. Long Live GraphQL.” is yet another look at REST vs. GraphQL for the API implementation.
I’m involved with developing quite a bit of REST APIs at work, but for now we are just trying to buy us some time. Â I want to take a really long and good look at GraphQL, but I don’t think this will happen this year. Â In the meantime, if you have any good GraphQL resources, please do send them my way.
“Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era” is a good collection of guidelines and concerns for password management in the modern day.
Here’s the bigger picture of what all this guidance from governments and tech companies alike is recognising: security is increasingly about a composition of controls which when combined, improve the overall security posture of a service. What you’ll see across this post is a collection of recommendations which all help contribute to a more robust solution by virtue of complimenting one and other. That may mean that individual recommendations such as dropping complexity requirements look odd, but when you consider the way humans tended to deal with that (they’d just choose bad passwords with a combination of character types) alongside guidance such as blocking previously breached passwords, things start to make a lot more sense.
Now there’s just one more thing: as good as all this guidance is, practically implementing it can be somewhat trickier.
AOS is a very easy to use, but fancy looking JavaScript library for animating page blocks on mouse scroll. Â It supports a wide range effects, like fading, flipping, zooming, and more.
I knew about git interactive staging for a while now, but I’ve never really used it. Â Most days I work on a single feature or bug fix at a time and can commit sequentially, one change after another. Â For an occasional mess, I found git interactive staging user interface too be too cumbersome.
The last couple of days at work were quite chaotic, with me jumping from one thing to another, and I decided to master that feature once and for all. Â Looking for a better tutorial, I came across this blog post, which covers the interactive staging, but also provides a much simpler approach – “git add –patch“.
It’ll take some practice to get it into my finger memory, but I think I’m settled now.
