Rob Janssen

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Passwords are still an anti-pattern

Passwords continue to harm the web. We need to rethink our approach to authentication. We were warned Nearly seven years ago Jeremy Keith wrote an eloquent article on why passwords are an anti-pattern.

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Programmers are the most optimistic bunch of people I have ever come across. Ask us how long something will take and chances are our estimates will be way off. It’s not because we hate you. It’s not because we didn’t know any better, either. We’re just very optimistic about everything.

Is ASP.Net vNext The New Node.js

ASP.NET vNext has a pretty cool name. But what does it mean to the day-to-day .NET web developer? Let’s take a brief look.

The Internet in Real-Time

Did You Know? A common myth is that Skype's parent company, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), originated as a penny stock before turning into a successful, multi-billion dollar behemoth, when in reality it was never a penny stock.

Performance matters more than you think

Computers are more powerful than ever before. Now that you can buy watches which outpace the earliest supercomputers, it seems logical to think that the efficiency of your software no longer matters.

What Does a Neural Network Actually Do?

There has been a lot of renewed interest lately in neural networks (NNs) due to their popularity as a model for deep learning architectures (there are non-NN based deep learning approaches based on sum-products networks and support vector machines with deep kernels, among others).

Poor man in the middle

This is a personal story not related to jPOS, but it’s somewhat related to payment networks and security, so I hope you enjoy it.

Everything Is Broken — The Message — Medium

Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network.

DEEP DIVE: The Future of .NET on the Server

Scott Hanselman joins developer David Fowler for this Part 2 Deep Dive into what’s coming in Microsoft ASP.NET. We explore what a decoupled stack looks like, how modules plug together, what this means for performance, and more.

How we built interactive heatmaps using Solr and Heatmap.js

One of the things we obsess over at Shutterstock is the customer experience.  We’re always aiming to better understand how customers interact with our site in their day to day work.

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.