If you missed my previous post, ABS is a programming language that allows you to interact with the underlying system with a modern syntax. This is an example of it as a version of Bash built in 2019. In this article, I’ll discuss a fresh new release of the ABS…

Eventually, the time has come: ABS 1.0.0 is finally out! This wraps up weeks of work since I started the project a little over a month ago, and gives you a fairly stable release with all of the “must” features I originally wanted to introduce in the language. About this release There are…

Something I’m extremely fascinated with is the power of simplicity: I’ve found myself fighting complexity far too many times, and always realized that when planning and developing a system, we’d achieve the best results when keeping things simple. What’s more interesting, simple systems could be combined together to kind of…

Over the past few days I took some time to work on a project I had in mind for ages, a scripting alternative to Bash: let me introduce you to the ABS programming language. Why Let me keep this brief: we all love shell programming — automating repetitive tasks without too…

Note: this is part 4 of a series on web security. Part 3 was Secure your web application with these HTTP headers. Imagine being a backend developer who needs to implement sessions in an application: the first thing that comes to your mind is to issue a token to clients…

This is part 3 of a series on web security: part 2 was “Web Security: an introduction to HTTP” As we’ve seen in the previous parts of this series, servers can send HTTP headers to provide the client additional metadata around the response, besides sending the content that the client…

This goes right into the list of books I really wanted to like but kind of disappointed me. The book is structured extremely well, so it comes out as a very enjoyable read. One downside, though, becomes fairly evident a few chapters in: it isn’t practical at all, describes few…

A few weeks ago I bumped into mkcert, a tool written by Filippo. He is the same guy behind the popular heartbleed test tool. The tool in question answers one simple need: By creating a local root CA file that gets installed in your system, it makes all certificates issued…

This was a funny one! After weeks thinking the Chrome team might have messed up, I finally got frustrated and looked for a solution to one of the weirdest problems I had encountered: the DevTool’s console getting cleared unexpectedly. I use the console on a daily basis to be able…