No matter what you develop, application security, infrastructure security, and having proper authorization and authentication mechanisms are critical. The earlier you learn about them in your development career, the better.

The more you are in software engineering, the more you realize that similar problems are repeated all the time. Moreover, those similar sets of issues are often solved using similar approaches. That’s where design patterns come in handy.

Everything the majority of the world knows about hackers is entirely and utterly wrong. There’s a way to fix this by showing, to the rest of the world, that we, hackers, can hack the world and make it a better place to live.

Especially on social media, I see and read this preached a lot: “Learn JavaScript and you won’t need to learn anything else; you can do everything with JavaScript, from front-end, to back-end. It is the best investment you’ll ever make!” — That’s a complete and utter 🐴💩.

I’m serious about this. Anyone who wants to master JavaScript had better learn Haskell beforehand. This article explains the “why”s and “how”s of it.