OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities List — You’re Probably Using It Wrong

What is the OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities list?

First issued in 2004 by the Open Web Application Security Project, the now-famous OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities list (included at the bottom of the article) is probably the closest that the development community has ever come to a set of commandments on how to keep their products secure.

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Mac OSX : can't start Git after updating Mac OS/XCode

"Solution: in terminal, run 'sudo xcodebuild -license' and then agree to the terms. Please sign in to leave a comment."

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Improving V8 regular expressions · V8

"In its default configuration, V8 compiles regular expressions to native code upon the first execution. As part of our work on JIT-less V8, we introduced an interpreter for regular expressions."

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Twitter

"If I am using icons that have more weight than the text, I typically make the icons slightly lighter than the text for inactive states ?? pic.twitter."

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About Nika

"At Mozilla I often end up building my changes in a patch stack, and used git rebase -i1 to make changes to commits in response to review comments etc. Unfortunately, with a repository as large as mozilla-central2, git rebase -i has some downsides:"

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What Every Developer Should Learn Early On

"As a developer, you’ll hear a lot of crazy, unbelievable theories about what “lines of code” signify. Believe none of them. Lines of code is a ridiculous metric to base decisions on. In very rare cases it tells you something, in all the other cases, it tells you nothing."

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Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

"Have you heard about algebraic effects? My first attempts to figure out what they are or why I should care about them were unsuccessful. I found a few pdfs but they only confused me more. (There’s something about academic pdfs that makes me sleepy.)"

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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

"Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t seem to have working DNS any more."

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How to add Git's branch name to the commit message?

"Use the prepare-commit-msg or commit-msg githook. There are examples already in your PROJECT/.git/hooks/ directory."

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Strangling a Monolith application with Micro Frontends using Server Side Includes

"An agile mindset promotes iteration over processes, products, and business. Nowadays evolutionary architecture is enabling incremental change in architecture over time. Nowadays is easy to choose frameworks such as Nuxt.js and Next.js to universal render pages using React and Vue."

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