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Better Programming

Why Storing Secrets and Passwords in Git Is a Bad Idea

And what you should do with your apps’ sensitive data instead

May 7, 2021

Key on table

May 7, 2021

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The Startup

Developing x86 apps on ARM with VS Code

Using Visual Studio Code remotes to develop on a different CPU architecture

Mar 11, 2021

Developing x86 apps on ARM with VS Code

Mar 11, 2021

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The Startup

Maybe We Shouldn’t Want a Fully Decentralized Web

Why I have stopped with IPFS and the distributed web

Nov 12, 2020

Maybe We Shouldn’t Want a Fully Decentralized Web

Nov 12, 2020

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Better Programming

Go, WebAssembly, HTTP Requests, and Promises

A guide to interacting with JavaScript from Go/Wasm

Oct 12, 2020

field of wheat blowing in the wind

Oct 12, 2020

That time I accidentally built a spying app

A personal story about creating new products and their unintended consequences

Sep 21, 2020

That time I accidentally built a spying app

Sep 21, 2020

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The Startup

Apple’s New Attitude Towards Developers: Complacency

Apple’s latest actions scream of hubris and complacency towards the large number of developers that depend on their products and ecosystem.

Sep 15, 2020

Apple’s New Attitude Towards Developers: Complacency

Sep 15, 2020

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Better Programming

Is This a Dependency or a DevDependency?

Where to put NPM modules in your package.json. It’s not as simple as it seems.

Jun 7, 2020

Is This a Dependency or a DevDependency?

Jun 7, 2020

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Better Programming

How to Sign Your Git Commits

And why you should do it

May 17, 2020

How to Sign Your Git Commits

May 17, 2020

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Better Programming

Please Stop Writing Your Own User Authentication Code

It’s time to adopt safer solutions and save time and money

Apr 8, 2020

Please Stop Writing Your Own User Authentication Code

Apr 8, 2020

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The Startup

You’re not thinking like a Silicon Valley startup

We live in a world where venture capitalists are happily subsidizing everything, from our meals to how we commute, and it’s the new normal

Feb 9, 2020

You’re not thinking like a Silicon Valley startup

Feb 9, 2020

Watch: JavaScript apps going Inter-Planetary

My talk at Node+JS Interactive, about running JavaScript apps on IPFS, and deploying them with CI/CD

Jan 21, 2020

Watch: JavaScript apps going Inter-Planetary

Jan 21, 2020

Auto-mounting encrypted drives with a remote key on Linux

Using dm-crypt and auto-mounting a drive without storing the key on the local disk

Jan 19, 2020

Auto-mounting encrypted drives with a remote key on Linux

Jan 19, 2020

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Better Programming

Your Next App May Not Have a Back End

A look at the JAMstack and what could be next

Nov 16, 2019

Your Next App May Not Have a Back End

Nov 16, 2019

Reinstalling pfSense and restoring from backup

When you have no other option to quickly bring your network back up

Sep 14, 2019

Reinstalling pfSense and restoring from backup

Sep 14, 2019

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Microsoft Azure

How to pass variables in Azure Pipelines YAML tasks

Passing variables between steps, jobs, and stages: explained

Aug 5, 2019

How to pass variables in Azure Pipelines YAML tasks

Aug 5, 2019

Cloud native, container-ready PHP

Four principles for building PHP apps in 2019: cloud native, horizontally-scalable, container-ready, highly-available

Jul 24, 2019

Cloud native, container-ready PHP

Jul 24, 2019

Yes, you can run Docker on Raspbian

Very simple steps for getting Docker and Docker Compose on Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4

Jul 13, 2019

Yes, you can run Docker on Raspbian

Jul 13, 2019

Go Buffalo is a mess

Some thoughts on Buffalo and why I rewrote my app with Gin

Jun 28, 2019

Go Buffalo is a mess

Jun 28, 2019

I loved jQuery, and still do

In defense of one of the most important JavaScript libraries ever

Apr 12, 2019

I loved jQuery, and still do

Apr 12, 2019

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Microsoft Azure

Getting TLS certificates from Azure Key Vault with Go

I recently had to build an app in Go to retrieve TLS certificates stored on Azure Key Vault, and because of some quirks this took way…

Apr 7, 2019

Getting TLS certificates from Azure Key Vault with Go

Apr 7, 2019

Alessandro Segala

Alessandro Segala

Cooker of great risotto. Sometimes tech nerd. Driving dev tools, @code & open source @Microsoft @Azure ☁️ Opinions are mine 🇮🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸

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