A little while ago, whitep4nth3r reached out on Twitter asking for support from men for a better future. I didn’t know why, but I signed up head first, because who wouldn’t want a better future? I didn’t know what sparked the plea, but I could have guessed. Men being assholes…

I absolutely hate it when web pages ask me for permission to send notifications. Most often, the same web pages ask me for an email as well. That’s incredibly spammy. I understand their “Marketing” department is struggling, but this really isn’t the way to go. Browser notifications are all kinds…

I’ve given over a hundred talks in the past few years. Why? Because I think it’s perfectly OK for me to be terrified, but it’s not OK for me to stay that way. My biggest fear? Same as you, same as everybody else. I was afraid to speak in front…

Bash is great and all, but it’s not something I’ll pick up in a day. I was looking for something a little bit more convenient to write scripts in. While looking, I’ve stumbled upon this little utility from Google called zx. And it's a better way to write scripts using…

Hi, my name is Alex, and I’m an… Advocate. A Developer Advocate. With Developer Advocates being one of the most sought out commodities on the market this year, I thought I’d write up the answer to one of the questions that I answer frequently in my DMs — mostly because…

Any Node.js end-of-life day is a good day, but today especially so! Node.js v10 is being end-of-lifed today, so you can finally support ES6 imports in your JavaScript code examples and libraries by default! The latest versions of Node.js v12 (not the earlier versions, mind you) support ES6 modules by…

First, let’s look at what Multi-Factor Authentication or MFA is. Most applications use a username/password combination to authenticate or log in their users. Some of them use a second method on top of the first, like a token or code sent via SMS. That is commonly called 2FA or two-factor…

2020 was kind of shit. Go on, it’s OK to admit it. But when I look in the mirror, 2020 was a lot healthier for me than usual. I’ve seen quite a few 2020 reviews this past week. It’s the fashionable thing to do. Hence this is my first yearly…

You’ve probably noticed the new and shiny Fidel Dashboard we released recently. There were a few reasons we came up with a whole new dashboard experience, and Katherine goes over all those reasons in her blog post. One of those reasons was that new users had trouble quickly unlocking the…