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code-for-a-living March 23, 2020

Defending yourself against coronavirus scams

Like a lot of you, I’m pretty glued to the news these days, trying to balance unease with calm realism. In trying times like these, we look for resources for critical information and ways to help people less fortunate than us. That’s the good news; the better angels of our nature see difficult situations—fires in…

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living March 18, 2020

How to develop a defensive plan for your open-source software project

Open source software is becoming more and more popular. Here's how you can create a plan to ensure that your open source implementation is secure as well as effective.

Sam Bocetta

code-for-a-living December 2, 2019

Preventing the Top Security Weaknesses Found in Stack Overflow Code Snippets

Last week, we told you about research that found a number of security vulnerabilities in code snippets in Stack Overflow answers, and how some of those flaws had migrated into actual, real-live Github projects. Today, we’re following up on the top eight error types that research highlighted and suggesting ways to avoid making the same mistakes.

Ryan Donovan

engineering July 11, 2019

Lessons Learned: Adding Single Sign-On to Stack Overflow for Teams

Hi, I’m Roberta Arcoverde, a Principal Software Developer at Stack Overflow. A few months ago I was tasked with figuring out how to enable single sign-on for Stack Overflow for Teams. We felt it was important to add SSO to the private version of Stack Overflow so the admins of our Teams could easily and…

Roberta Arcoverde Principal Software Developer

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