Victoria Drake

Engineering leader bridging strategy & tech. Big on cybersecurity and productivity. Leading leaders to build standout software: techleaderdocs.com

Joined on May 16, 2017 https://victoria.dev

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Victoria Drake

Sep 19

Optimizing text for ChatGPT: NLP and text pre-processing techniques

#chatgpt #openai #development #nlp

6 min read

Victoria Drake

Oct 9 '20

Increase developer confidence with a great Django test suite

#python #programming #django

5 min read

Victoria Drake

Aug 11 '20

How to create a self-documenting Makefile

#showdev #productivity #devops

2 min read

Victoria Drake

Sep 27

How to send long text input to ChatGPT using the OpenAI API

#showdev #chatgpt #python

6 min read

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Victoria Drake

May 23 '22

Git branching for small teams

#productivity #git #startup

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Dec 21 '21

My paper to-do strategy

#showdev #productivity #devtips

3 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 22 '21

Measuring productivity with GitHub issues

#showdev #productivity #devtips

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 22 '21

There are better options for a privacy-respecting phone

#privacy #security

7 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 21 '21

Digital resilience: redundancy for websites and communications

#showdev #security #devtips

5 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 20 '21

Create a self-hosted chat service with your own Matrix server

5 min read

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Dec 20 '21

Add search to Hugo static sites with Lunr

6 min read

Victoria Drake

Jan 19 '21

How to get hired as a software developer

#career

6 min read

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Oct 30 '21

Make your own independent website

3 min read

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Jan 12 '21

How to become a software developer

#programming #devtips

5 min read

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Dec 24 '20

Be brave and build in public

#opensource

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Dec 22 '20

So you're the family tech support

#security #devtips

3 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 21 '20

How to write good documentation

#programming #devtips #opensource

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Dec 14 '20

How a single priority makes your tech team more productive

#leadership

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 7 '20

What is TCP/IP? Layers and protocols explained

#webdev

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Nov 21 '20

Responsive pages and color themes with minimal CSS

#css #webdev #devtips

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Nov 13 '20

WPA Key, WPA2, WPA3, and WEP Key: Wi-Fi security explained

#security

8 min read

Victoria Drake

Nov 14 '20

Build your own serverless subscriber list with Go and AWS

#showdev #opensource #go

7 min read

Victoria Drake

Oct 18 '20

Three rules for choosing a VPN that takes your privacy seriously

#security

6 min read

Victoria Drake

Sep 25 '20

Django project best practices to keep your developers happy

#python #programming #django

6 min read

Victoria Drake

Sep 18 '20

Manipulating data with Django migrations

#python #programming #django

5 min read

Victoria Drake

Sep 11 '20

What is TLS? Transport Layer Security encryption explained in plain english

#security #computerscience #algorithms

5 min read

Victoria Drake

Aug 29 '20

Deceptively simple search-and-replace across multiple files

#showdev #productivity #devtips

2 min read

Victoria Drake

Aug 19 '20

How GitHub Codespaces increase productivity and lower barriers

#showdev #devops #opensource #programming

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3 min read

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Jul 28 '20

Go automate your GitHub profile README

#showdev #go

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4 min read

Victoria Drake

Jul 29 '20

Writing efficient Django

#python #programming

7 min read

Victoria Drake

Jul 1 '20

Look mom, I'm a GitHub Action Hero

#opensource #security #github #devops

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Jun 26 '20

Technical ergonomics for the efficient developer

#remotework #career #devtips #productivity

4 min read

Victoria Drake

May 26 '20

How to choose and care for a secure open source project

#security #opensource #programming #devops

7 min read

Victoria Drake

May 13 '20

If you want to build a treehouse, start at the bottom

#security #webdev #devops #beginners

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Apr 29 '20

Hugo vs Jekyll: an epic battle of static site generator themes

#showdev #opensource #webdev #github

12 min read

Victoria Drake

Mar 22 '20

Unexpected benefits of asynchronous remote work

#remotework #career #devtips #productivity

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Mar 17 '20

Outsourcing security with 1Password, Authy, and Privacy.com

#security

5 min read

Victoria Drake

Mar 6 '20

SQLite in production with WAL 🔥

#computerscience #programming #devtips

3 min read

Victoria Drake

Feb 28 '20

“Multithreaded Python: slithering through an I/O bottleneck”

#computerscience #programming #python

5 min read

Victoria Drake

Feb 18 '20

Command line tricks for managing your messy open source repository

#showdev #devtips #bash #linux

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 31 '19

The past ten years, or, how to get better at anything

#programming #career #productivity #motivation

7 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 27 '19

Healthy habits for good cybersecurity

#showdev #security

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 24 '19

Concurrency, parallelism, and the many threads of Santa Claus 🎅

#computerscience #programming #beginners

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6 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 19 '19

Word bugs in software documentation and how to fix them

#devops #security #devtips #opensource

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Dec 12 '19

Security for the front-end developer

#security #webdev #devops #beginners

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4 min read

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Dec 4 '19

How to print newlines in command line output

#showdev #devtips #bash #linux

3 min read

Victoria Drake

Nov 28 '19

The care and feeding of an IoT device

#showdev #security

4 min read

Victoria Drake

Nov 21 '19

Bash and shell expansions: lazy list-making

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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4 min read

Victoria Drake

Nov 13 '19

A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack

#showdev #security #serverless #devops

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5 min read

Victoria Drake

Nov 5 '19

Publishing GitHub event data with GitHub Actions and Pages

#showdev #devtips #bash #productivity

8 min read

Victoria Drake

Oct 28 '19

A lightweight, tool-agnostic CI/CD flow with GitHub Actions

#showdev #devtips #bash #productivity

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5 min read

Victoria Drake

Oct 23 '19

A portable Makefile for continuous delivery with Hugo and GitHub Pages

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

5 min read

Victoria Drake

Oct 15 '19

How to quickly batch resize, compress, and convert images with a Bash one-liner

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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1 min read

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Oct 7 '19

Personal cybersecurity posture for when you're just this guy, you know?

#showdev #security #beginners

7 min read

Victoria Drake

Oct 1 '19

Secure application architecture basics: separation, configuration, and access

#security #webdev #devops #beginners

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Victoria Drake

Sep 23 '19

Migrating to the cloud but without screwing it up, or how to move house

#serverless #webdev #devops #beginners

9 min read

Victoria Drake

Sep 17 '19

How users and applications stay safe on the Internet: it's proxy servers all the way down

#security #webdev #devtips #beginners

9 min read

Victoria Drake

Sep 10 '19

Hackers are Googling your plain text passwords: preventing sensitive data exposure

#security #webdev #devtips #beginners

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7 min read

Victoria Drake

Sep 3 '19

SQL injection and XSS: what white hat hackers know about trusting user input

#security #webdev #devtips #beginners

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10 min read

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Aug 21 '19

How to do twice as much with half the keystrokes using `.bashrc`

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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6 min read

Victoria Drake

Aug 19 '19

How to set up a fresh Ubuntu desktop using only dotfiles and bash scripts

#showdev #linux #bash #productivity

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8 min read

Victoria Drake

Aug 6 '19

How to write Bash one-liners for cloning and managing GitHub and GitLab repositories

#showdev #devtips #productivity #git

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7 min read

Victoria Drake

Aug 2 '19

A quick guide to changing your GitHub username

#showdev #devtips #github #git

2 min read

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