Mendhak / Code

‘Zero Trust’ security is a poor choice of words

There is a growing focus on Zero Trust security models across businesses, and with this changing landscape will come a new set of security paradigms and processes that end users will need to adapt to.

Tool to find Steam trading card sets in common with another user

On Steam, I like to trade with other users to complete my card sets, and craft badges. A common way to find users offering trades is on the Steam Trading Cards Group. Now, in this group, some people will accept cross-set trades.

Repurposing Caps Lock into something useful

Does there exist a key more useless, more banal in its existence than Caps Lock? For most typical computer usage and software development there is no reason to use it, and yet it persists as a holdover from the typewriter era.

In praise of opinionated frameworks

It might appear that the tech industry tends to gravitate towards tools, languages and frameworks that are highly flexible by design. Said technologies will capture attention through numerous blog posts, articles and social media bluster about them, perpetuating their hype cycles. The problem with this perception is that it prematurely…

A simple and effective Bash prompt for developers

In Bash I use a very basic prompt which is simple and effective.

How quantum computers break our security, and what’s being done about it

As a computing end user, I’ve been vaguely aware of quantum computing on the horizon, but haven’t been aware regarding its effect on us. To that end I decided to get a generalist’s understanding of how quantum computers would affect our security, and what’s happening right now in the industry…

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