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Why Storing Secrets and Passwords in Git Is a Bad Idea

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

10 min readMay 7, 2021

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Key on table

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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

9 min readMar 11, 2021

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Developing x86 apps on ARM with VS Code

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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

6 min readNov 12, 2020

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Maybe We Shouldn’t Want a Fully Decentralized Web

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Better Programming

Go, WebAssembly, HTTP Requests, and Promises

A guide to interacting with JavaScript from Go/Wasm

8 min readOct 12, 2020

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field of wheat blowing in the wind

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Alessandro Segala

That time I accidentally built a spying app

A personal story about creating new products and their unintended consequences

14 min readSep 21, 2020

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That time I accidentally built a spying app

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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.

11 min readSep 15, 2020

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Apple’s New Attitude Towards Developers: Complacency

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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.

6 min readJun 7, 2020

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Is This a Dependency or a DevDependency?

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Alessandro Segala
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Better Programming

How to Sign Your Git Commits

And why you should do it

12 min readMay 17, 2020

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How to Sign Your Git Commits

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Alessandro Segala
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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

8 min readApr 8, 2020

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Please Stop Writing Your Own User Authentication Code

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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

8 min readFeb 9, 2020

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You’re not thinking like a Silicon Valley startup

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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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