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Crafting Gender-Neutral Job Position Descriptions in the Tech Industry

The Challenge As in many firms, managers work with their talent acquisition team to craft a position description, the firm posts it out “there” and receives a diverse array of applicants. That’s good! Recently though, it seems like the posts in my corner of the world have not been attracting female applicants. I poked around […]

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Yet Another Reason to Own Your Blog

The LinkedIn Challenge I maintain a lot of different social media platforms, and each has their own nuances. In today’s adventure, I simply wanted to share a post from Ben Taylor, Dataiku’s Chief AI Strategist. But I wanted to do it a certain way. Here’s what I wanted: I wanted to keep Ben’s comments on

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What Happened to the Information Superhighway

In the Beginning I am sure there are some folks like me who were around when the typewriter was invented… no wait, I was not around for that. Or was I? Gah, I forget. Anyway, I was here when a company called Apple came out with the IIe, when Microsoft came out with a graphical

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Udemy Attacks Customers with Malware

Call to Action Udemy’s decision is wrong. I am hoping, after reading this article, you will consider doing any one (or more) of the following: Join me in boycotting Udemy until they: 1) stop using malware, 2) allow customers to play content on their computers using their hardware, and 3) pay punitively for their actions

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Better secrets for Node.js apps? Meet Schluessel

TLDR Secrets. Encrypted. Easy to Use. Much fork. Much secret wow. https://github.com/Pik-9/schluessel About Secrets You know, the naughty bits in your code like API keys & passwords. Pretty much everyone knows, especially if you are using source control (please tell me you use source control. Lie to me, if need be). As people on a

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Cryptocurrency: Mining, Staking and the Pursuit of Value

I have dipped my toe into cryptocurrency for quite a while. I’ve even made some pretty good returns, but to say I understand cryptocurrency – that’s a bridge too far at the moment. I am going to write this post to explain my current understanding and then I am looking for feedback to help translate

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Customize VS Code Kimbie Dark Theme Appearance

For those in the dark-theme club (AKA, protecting our retinas, and otherwise into the reduced power consumption that comes along with increasing the longevity of our retinas), I found the Kimbie Dark theme to be a nice change of pace from straight-up Black/Grey. Check it out: It’s got a nice coffee/mocha vibe to it, and

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Free Let’s Encrypt SSL for cPanel using acme.sh

TLDR VERSION This article shortcuts how to get SSL certs from Let’s Encrypt (or ZeroSSL) issued and deployed for your cPanel hosted websites (domain or addon domains), using acme.sh. The commands to setup and configure acme.sh in cPanel are here. But once acme.sh is running via SSH or within cPanel terminal, there’s just 2 key

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