SQL/RDBMS: Set Theory in Action

Originally this post was going to be a comparison between various relational database manage systems (RDBMS), specifically MySQL and PostgreSQL. After some diligent research I came to this conclusion. Either you’re a seasoned developer working on a difficult scaling…

Cryptography 101: Keep Your Hands off my Private Keys

You know that thing; you did in math class; when you were a kid; when you would took a number and broke it down into its prime factors? Example:

6 = 3 * 2
12 = 3 * 2 * 2
15 = 5 * 3

Sass: Don’t Give me That CSS

CSS preprocessors have been around for a while and there are a lot of them out there. Despite so many preprocessors they’re all variations on the same theme. They add a little syntactic sugar on top of bland CSS to it easier to read/write. CSS doesn’t support things like…

JavaScript Buzzwords Part 1: AWS Lambda and Serverless

My latest project, “Project X,” has involved me doing fun stuff with JavaScript. The project is far from being production ready, but over the next couple week I’m going to share some of the things I’ve learned along the way. When…

PostCSS: Life After CSS

I apologize for not posting this past week. It was my senior week. It’s easy for me to get too caught up in work, so I told myself I’d shut it down and enjoy my Senior week. Senior week only happens once and I thought it was an important time for me to enjoy/relax and reflect on my past…

Cryptography 102: Hash me Outside how Bout Dat

Last week I wrote about PGP keys and how they can be used to sign, encrypt, and decrypt data. This week I’m going to go over more usages of encryption. If you don’t have a good grasp on the basics of public/private key encryption or you haven’t…