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Ever wanted to let users preview CSV files right in their browser without any complex libraries? In this guide, we'll build a simple yet e...

This year has been somewhat of a wake up call to the developer community in terms of A.I. It seems like each and every month now a new tool ...

Argon2id is the gold standard for password hashing, combining the best features of Argon2i and Argon2d to provide excellent security against...

During local development with Vite, you'll often encounter CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) errors when your frontend tries to communica...

If you've worked on any authentication system in the last decade, you've probably used [bcrypt](https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/116...

AI, as of late, is taking the blame for making junior developers “worse” at writing code, but in my 20 years of experience—junior devs have ...

You've built a sleek new web application with user accounts, and now you need to store passwords. Like any security-conscious developer, you...

## Understanding ENUM in Databases: When and How to Use It When building a database schema, you will often encounter situations where a col...

If you had asked me a year whether I thought that AI generated code was decent enough for production, I would have probably said no. The hal...

### Introduction to Cryptography If you're a software engineer of any kind in this day and age, then you no doubt work (or have worked) wit...

The Rail Fence Cipher is one of the simplest ciphers in the realm of cryptography. But it's the most visually interesting encryption methods...

Forgetting the default root password that you set up 6 months ago in your PostgreSQL database installation is a part of being a developer. I...

For the past 10 years I've used Google Analytics exclusively on all of my websites and projects. It's free, relatively easy to implement and...

As a long-time ASP.NET Web Forms developer who has maintained applications in this framework for over a decade, I understand the uncertainty...

If you’ve ever run into the dreaded ?? problem, this guide will walk you through how to properly configure your database to store emojis and...

For the past few years everyone in the A.I. world has been pushing the narrative that prompt engineering is the future and the only career option you'll soon have. And if you don't learn it now, you're going to be out of luck when finding a job....

When I taught for a coding bootcamp years ago one of the more popular sentiments that people would often share is that they wanted to learn ...

If you're reading this, then I can only assume that you still enjoy the process of reading medium to long form content on the internet. As d...

CSS image filters are a powerful tool for adding effects to images directly in the browser. These filters allow you to manipulate the appear...