Mark Percival

TL;DR: You should still learn regex (and other things), but I really just wanted an excuse to vibe code Regex Blaster Just because AI coding is doing all the heavy lifting on the boring stuff, that doesn’t mean we should stop learning how all these pieces…

AI hype is very much in effect in the business world, but ironically any time a new technology comes along it’s often developers that harbor the most cynicism.

Although the idea of open source software has been around since the 1950’s, it wasn’t until 1992 when Linus Torvalds licensed Linux under the General Public License and that the modern era of open source began.

I prefer to develop on remote systems, especially now with VSCode’s ability to work on remote machines.

Github pages has long felt like a bit of an orphan product at Github, but it’s still a useful one, and one that I find myself using for a variety of reasons (documentation, static demo pages).

You’re terrible at hiring — A startup’s guide to interviewing engineers I frequently get asked by startups for help hiring engineers.

Quick and dirty developer guide to U2F I recently had the chance to implement U2F authentication in a small side project.

Prototyping in the age of NoSQL TLDR; I love Firebase, but their database offering leaves a lot to be desired when you’re in the early stages of prototyping a new application.

CSP in Express.js / Node This is pretty straightforward, but here’s how I implement CSP in an Express middleware layer.

Tracking the mail with a $29.99 phone Let me frank, I buy a lot of stupid stuff from the Internet.

I stumbled across this the other day on Tumblr.

There was an interesting article today on HTML5’s solution to solving the missing referrers problem in HTTPS -> HTTP transitions.

I was messing with my Raspberry Pi via ssh tonight and wanted to quickly stash a file to gist.github.com.

So Evernote got hacked.

Reworked my Gist importer for EvernoteIf your looking to import your Github gists into Evernote and make them searchable, this is your starting point.