Vert.x Hacks

I recently had to re-install my laptop and noticed that my IDE stop giving me the hints I was used to get regarding secure code tips.

I had the chance of chatting about the power of open-source on the Beyond Coding Podcast.

The end of password-based authentication is near. Weak passwords are the cause of endless security breaches, and the constant reuse of the same password across different accounts is what keeps the clock ticking for the next breach to happen.

The history around passwords is blurry as the invention of the wheel. Most people say that one of the first usages was in the mid nineteen sixties, when MIT was building the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). This was a 30 million dollar computer, that was being shared between users.

Native Images and SubstrateVM, the native image AOT compiler from GraalVM, are the hot topic, almost everyone has build a simple HTTP server. But not many people talk about SSL.