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This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/73ce30dd258296bd24af23e9c5f761aa. Hi there! Since this post was originally written, nvm has gained some new tools, and some people have suggested alternative (and potentially better) ap...

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/7105003c3b26e65efcea63f3db82dfba. Not all random values are created equal - for security-related code, you need a specific kind of random value. A summary of this article, if you don't...

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29. No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer. Note: The content in this post does not a...

This post was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/bca2fda868c1e8b2c2caf76af7dfcad3, which was in turn adapted from an earlier Twitter thread. It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd...

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/cd107b3a566264b28a3494689d73e589. Presence exists - The field must exist, and not be undefined. required - The field must exist, and not be undefined, null or an empty string. empt...

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/26579e2f73ad903144dd5d75e2f03d83. A "prefix code" is a type of encoding mechanism ("code"). For something to be a prefix code, the entire set of possible encoded values ("codewords"...

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/7e5cad8c0726fd6a5e90360a754fc568. Recently, Let's Encrypt launched free wildcard certificates. While this is good news in and of itself, as it removes one of the last remaining reasons ...

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/cf5fd6481a31477b12dc33af453f9a1d. While a lot of Node.js guides recommend using JWT as an alternative to session cookies (sometimes even mistakenly calling it "more secure than cookies"...

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/7f03a733a3a72d2396d6. When you're developing in Node.js, you're likely to run into these terms - "monolithic" and "modular". They're usually used to describe the different types of fram...