Why Password Managers are Not the Solution
Why a Password Manager?
Password managers exist for two main reasons.
Firstly, to generate strong passwords and secondly so that you don’t end …
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In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
Read the top n lines of a file in Python
Sometimes you may need to read the top n lines of a file using Python.
We start by opening the file for reading and then using a list comprehension we …
Read Article →How Fast is your Website?
I operate a bunch of different sites and have done for many years now.
Some of them get quite a lot of traffic and require a high level of uptime.
To …
Read Article →How to Git Reset a Single File
It’s very easy to reset files that have not yet been committed to git.
Reset a single file
git reset <filename>
You can also specify the …
Read Article →Introducing Variables in Golang
Golang comes with a decent offering around variables that you can use to store, retrieve and manipulate information.
A variable is defined with the …
Read Article →Golang cannot convert (type string) to type int
Every language has it’s ways of converting data types. One of the most common data types to convert between is that of strings (string) and …
Learn Golang as a Python Developer
Learning Go or Golang as a Python developer, programmer or software engineer is easier than you think.
While there are quite a lot of things to learn …
Read Article →Remove Special Characters in a String using Bash
Programming languages provide the ability to remove special characters from a string quite easily.
Sometimes you need to also do this from your …
Read Article →Get the Amount of Days Between Two Dates in Python
Let’s say that you have two dates:
"2019-01-29"
"2019-06-30"
How would you create a function that would return the number of …
Read Article →How to Always run Python 3 from Bash
Given a directory that contains:
|
|- app.py
|- requirements.txt
|- ...
|- <- other-files ->
|- ...
We can create a runme.sh file to always make …
How to Run the Kubernetes Dashboard Locally
Kubernetes comes with a pretty nice dashboard to view clusters, worker groups, nodes and pods. As well as a ton of other useful things.
This tutorial …
Read Article →How to tell if a year is a Leap Year in Python
Given that we are in a leap year this year (2020), it would be nice to know how to programmatically calculate this.
Luckily, this is a repeatable …
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