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Our support ticket system had a search bar. It matched keywords. If a user typed “login issues,” they got results containing the exact phrase “login issues.” If our agents had labelled those tickets...
There was an engineer on a team I joined early in my career who knew everything. Or at least, he performed that role with great dedication.
I ran my own site, hafiq.dev, through securityheaders.com this morning and it came back with an A+.
Most Laravel SSO tutorials stop at Google or GitHub. Fair enough. But if you are building government-facing apps in Malaysia, there is a different provider you need to know: MyDigitalID.
Every few months something gets posted on X about a scary new hacking tool that is going to destroy everything.
Most server crashes do not come from hardware failure or a sudden traffic spike. They come from a query someone wrote at 2am that nobody reviewed, running fine on 10,000 rows and falling apart at 10...