Code for a Living Archives

code-for-a-living May 16, 2022

Stack under attack: what we learned about handling DDoS attacks

When the bots came for us, we strengthened our defenses. Here's what we learned about parrying a few DDoS attacks.

Josh Zhang Staff Site Reliability Engineer

code-for-a-living May 5, 2022

Security needs to shift left into the software development lifecycle

Security needs to move from an afterthought to a primary concern in software development. Here's what shifting left looks like for real-world developers.

Michael Chenetz

code-for-a-living May 2, 2022

Building a community of open-source documentation contributors

When your open-source project starts getting contributors, it can feel great! But as a project grows, contributors can neglect to document everything.

Jared Bhatti and Zachary Sarah Corleissen

code-for-a-living April 27, 2022

Underscoring (or dunder-scoring) the importance of native type methods in Python

Standard operators make for clean, readable code. With dunder methods, you can add these operators to your own classes.

Theodoros ‘Theo’ Karasavvas

code-for-a-living April 25, 2022

Empathy for the Dev: Avoiding common pitfalls when communicating with developers

All too often, developers go deep on the wrong things, when writing documentation. A little bit of empathy can get your docs back on track.

Heidi Waterhouse

code-for-a-living April 21, 2022

The robots are coming for (the boring parts of) your job

Are the robots coming for your job? You’ve heard this question before. But in 2022, with AI increasingly ubiquitous in the lives of most coders, the issue feels more pressing.

Eira May Content Writer

code-for-a-living April 14, 2022

The Authorization Code grant (in excruciating detail) Part 2 of 2

Previously, I examined OAuth at a high level, including the standards and the grants outlined in the specifications. If you haven’t you may want to read that article. In this post, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of integrating OAuth to protect resources like APIs. While there are a number of different ways to do…