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Where and why to hash a password

Lately I heard a colleague tell an intern how important it is to hash user passwords. I was delighted as I heard this. Until. Until I realized they were talking...

Rust, Egui and Commands

For a side project, the security card game, I decided last year to write a simple CLI in rust to create cards. Soon after the CLI was finished, it became...

Shaping Reality

If you are working in software development, chances are high you are working on something user-facing. And if you do this, your decisions may shape reality. But how is this?...

SoCraTes Germany 2024

Wow, a year has passed. And still, it felt like coming home when I arrived in Soltau for the SoCraTes 2024. This says a lot in itself, I think. Last...

Creating a Spring Boot Starter

You may remember the story about the fictitious team developing a laboratory information management system (LIMS) from the article about “Evolving test setup and test data management”. This time we...

Coursera: Google Cybersecurity Course

One of the areas I want to get a better background and also want to focus more is security. This not only means securing an application while developing it, but...