Note: I recently wrote this piece for Clubhouse here and have got permission to publish it on Medium.

Selenium is an incredibly powerful open source tool that was created to automate web browser interactions, which allows teams to focus on automation testing rather than manual testing. Although it can be time consuming to set up in the short term, the long term benefits will be worth it if done right. This blog post is aimed at developers who have never done any web browser automation before. …

Note: This is just my opinion so don’t take it as investment advice.

As we all know, Stellar has increased quite a lot lately. I’m going to put a lot of links in this post to back up each point by the way, hopefully it’s not annoying! So let’s take a look to see where we currently stand:

IBM

Stripe got on board with Stellar in the early days which was impressive enough, but the partnerships are still rolling in now. Over the last few months we learned that IBM are getting involved which is a very good vote of confidence…

Finding out if 2 people are chatting on WhatsApp

A few days ago I came across an article called Collecting huge amounts of data using WhatsApp which kind of got me thinking. The article explains how you can create your very own database of mobile numbers, profile photos, status and about text. You give WhatsApp a mobile number, and this is what they return back — even if it’s a number that isn’t in your contacts etc. The guy who wrote the article made a script to go through loads of mobile numbers and get all this info back — but let’s make it a little bit more creepy.

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As a developer, you’re constantly reminded about security threats: Cross-site scripting, SQL injections, plugins or libraries being exploited etc. A lot of the threats can be hard to get your head around at times so when you see a phishing vulnerability that is extremely simple to do — it’s a little bit scary.

At the time of writing, every popular browser fails to protect their users…not to mention that pretty much every website you use also fails to protect you against the phishing vulnerability that I’m going to go through — including Facebook, Twitter and quite ironically, Medium.

If you’ve…