Reading List

• Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database

  Kat Batuigas

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  27 Jul 2021

  With Postgres, you don’t need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven’t yet given Postgres’ built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro.

• Naval Architecture

  Bartosz Ciechanowski

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  27 Jul 2021

  Interactive article explaining how ships float and maintain their stability.

• We Need To Talk About The Insecurity Industry

  Edward Snowden

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  26 Jul 2021

  The greatest danger to national security has become the companies claiming to protect it.

• In Defence of the Pull Request

  Oliver Roick

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  26 Jul 2021

  Code reviews aren’t the developer’s primary responsibility, and often there is more than one round of changes to review. There’s always one person in the way to wrap up work, leaving snarky comments. Pull requests take time, resulting in long-lived feature branches and violation of continuous-integration principles. And, despite thorough reviews, bugs still make their way into production. Pull requests are neither efficient nor effective; they slow down delivery and contribute to toxic environments.

• You should turn off autofill in your password manager

  Marek Tóth

  Password managers are a very popular topic in IT security these days. I can only agree with the use of password managers. After all, remembering dozens of unique passwords is almost impossible.

• Securing your development environment

  Santos Gallegos

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  24 Jul 2021

  Tips on how to secure how to secure your development environment from your computer to your terminal.

• Don’t reinvent the `if` statement

  Mikhail Dobrinin

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  25 Jul 2021

  The senior engineer was faced with code that stopped him in his tracks...