Rob Janssen

Answers to password reset questions are passwords too — so why aren’t you treating them that way?

If you’re a developer working on or maintaining a website catering to the general public, chances are you’ve implemented some form of password reset via security question-and-answer into your site.

Nee, je hebt wél iets te verbergen

Van het massaal surveilleren van burgers door de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst National Security Agency (NSA) tot de verplichte vingerafdruk in het paspoort: onze privacy staat onder druk. In Nederland worden de zorgen hierover niet breed gedeeld.

What To Know Before Debating Type Systems

Recently, it was brought up on Proggit that Chris Smith's "What to Know Before Debating Type Systems" was no longer online. This is a really great article, and in an effort to make sure it survives, I've grabbed the archive.org cache and am 'reprinting' it here.

Another lesson learned with MongoDB

MongoDB is the primary database at VersionEye. Currently VersionEye is crawling more than 600K open source projects on a daily basis. Some of the crawlers are implemented in Java, others in Ruby.

Why I do Open Source and why sometimes I shouldn’t — Medium

I consider myself a big fan of open source. It’s not always been this way for me, though. There was a time when I never gave too much thought to it. There were these communities sharing code, every once in a while I took something from them, and that was pretty much it.

Nerd³ FW - FleX

I look forward to Bunny Drowning Simulator 2027.Link here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthrea...End theme by the incredible Dan Bull: http://www.youtube.com/user/douglbyAll other music is in game music. It makes me want to smother stuff in goo.Nerd³ Site! http://nerdcubed.co.uk/ Dad³ Channel! h

Udacity Staff: Code Confessional

Udacity staff tell the stories are some of their biggest "screw ups" in previous positions. As developers, we all mess up - that's okay! The point is to learn from those mess ups!

Regexes: The Bad, the Better, and the Best

Regular expressions are incantations that we developers wield mightily when the time calls. Yet, do we always wield them deftly? Regular expressions are a delicate and precise language.

Faster computers, coming soon, as graphics chip answers the call to action

This year, a new way to handle graphics chips will speed up everything on your computer -- from Photoshop to a first-person shooter.

Build your own Wayback Machine in 10 lines of code. — Pachyderm Data — Medium

In this post we’ll be using Pachyderm’s shiny new pipeline system to build a simple clone of Wayback Machine. With a surprisingly small amount of code we’ll build a system that can efficiently snapshot the internet. Let’s dive in! First things first, we’ll need a working Pachyderm setup.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.