Securing your dev accounts: the basics we too often overlook

This article was originally published on codingqueen40.com.

When you start coding seriously, you often think about your portfolio, projects, GitHub, deployment... but rarely about the security of your accounts.

Yet this is the first foundation you need to lay.

What this article covers:

• Why some accounts are ‘pivotal’ (email, GitHub, password manager)
• Why a password alone is no longer enough
• How GitHub can fail — and what that means
• SSH: practical, but only if it's well managed
• Digital hygiene: concrete steps
• Where to start, without getting lost

‘Securing your dev accounts isn't a technical detail. It's a way of saying: what I build matters, so I protect it.’

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