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136 days ago

Here’s the thing. The thing. It’s a powerful thought, though it sneaks by quietly at first. Give it a little room to expand in your mind. When you get, you can feel it.

You will do precisely what you decide to do with your life.

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137 days ago

If LiveJournal and GitHub Pages had a baby, it would… wait no… okay if Myspace custom CSS and Twitter had a baby… no that’s not right… okay if Twitter and Geocities had a baby…

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138 days ago

Consider that the biggest obstacle to your product’s cyber security may be embarrassment.

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@victoria.dev

140 days ago

Many folks in the US are just trying to make ends meet, but many other folks are doing all right. If you’re in the latter category, here’s how you can help make things better for everyone.

Buy local. Buy American. Ask if it’s made in the USA.

Pay for independent news sources. Pay …

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140 days ago

Year in numbers on Victoria.dev:

  • 📰 36 articles
  • ⌨ 40,329 words
  • 🔠 278,810 characters

find . -name '2020*' | wc -l find . -name '2020*' | xargs wc -cw

Year in numbers on GitHub:

  • 📦 32 repositories
  • 📬 188 issues

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146 days ago

I’ve considered writing a book. It’s one of the few things I’ve wanted to do since I was young, but haven’t yet done. This is because I have trouble convincing myself that putting in the effort to create a cohesive book would be more valuable than putting the same effort into …

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148 days ago

I used to think that when I wanted to make updates to a project, I ought to hold back and do a big re-launch with all the changes at once. I figured that seeing big changes would feel like Christmas!

Unfortunately, Christmas only comes once a year. After years in the tech and cybersecurity world, my …

#open source

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150 days ago

When presented with an offer like “Get $10 when you sign up today,” the question you should be asking to make the proper value calculation is, “Am I willing to start this new habit for $10?”

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151 days ago

🎄🌟 Happy holidays! 🌟🎄

For those of you seeing relatives this season, chances are that you’re the designated family tech support. If part of your time home for the holidays is spent on software updates and troubleshooting WiFi, here are a few other quick wins to help boost your family’s online …

#privacy #cybersecurity #life

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151 days ago

Hi mom.