All about Cyber Security. The Cyber Security field is so vast, find some resources here to get started. 

This week, Phia wonders what kind of person falls for phishing attacks. Is it only insanely gullible luddites, or can smart, tech savvy people get phished, too? To find out, she conducts an experiment on her poor, unsuspecting coworkers.

#97 What Kind Of Idiot Gets Phished? | Reply All

Computer viruses and worms haunt the internet. They worm their way into a system, replicate, and spread. But there’s an industry that rose up to fight back.
An excellent introduction to worms and viruses. If you never heard of either, start here.

Command Line Heroes: Season 9: Relentless Replicators

The trojan horse uses deception to do damage. But if we stick to trusted sites and sources, we better the odds against those who use our trust against us.

Command Line Heroes: Season 9: Terrifying Trojans

Top 5 ethical hacking books to get started? Top 5 practical hacking books?
Neal discusses Hacking and cybersecurity books.

Top 5 hacking books

How would you decode and decipher a VBScript Malware? John explains step by step how to analyze and understand its inner workings.

MALWARE ANALYSIS - VBScript Decoding & Deobfuscating

This is the path to becoming a hacker. Follow the advice and change your life!

Ex-NSA hacker tells us how to get into hacking!

There are many different ways to get into hacking. Capture the Flag (CTF) contests are one option to get more experience under your belt.

How To Learn Hacking With CTFs

How do the Elite Hackers of the FSB work?

A detailed story by the German Public Broadcasters BR and WDR

The Elite Hackers of the FSB

Thinking about applying for a cyber security position?
Use this guide to get a feeling for the types of questions you might get asked.

Types of Cyber Security | Know Top 9 Awesome Cyber Security Tools

Cyber Security

Eloquent JavaScript is one of the most popular books available to learn the language.
You can buy a paper copy or read it online.

Eloquent JavaScript

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja is a resource for advanced learners who want to understand better how to wield the language more effectively.

Did you ever wonder how JavaScript Devs implemented classes before ES2015 shipped?
What are memorizing functions? How do closures work?
You find answers to these questions and more here!

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

fetch is JavaScript's modern and versatile tool to make HTTP requests without reloading the page.

Learn how to use fetch in your browser application

That's so Fetch

Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

STUMP'D - Coding Interview Questions — Syntax Podcast 384

Modern JavaScript leverages Promises to a high degree. Every operation you perform needs to have error handling. This guide walks you through the details of using .catch and what to do with your try...catch clauses

Error handling with Promises

Don't let the title fool you. If you're learning about JavaScript Promises right now, this guide is for you, as it helps you to avoid many different Rookie Mistakes.

We have a problem with promises

Have you ever had a bug where things were happening in the wrong order, or particular style changes were being ignored? Ever fixed that bug by wrapping a section of code in a setTimeout? Ever found that fix to be unreliable, and played around with the timeout number until it kinda almost always worked? 
This talk looks at the browser's event loop, the thing that orchestrates the main thread of the browser, which includes JavaScript, events, and rendering. We'll look at the difference between tasks, microtasks, requestAnimationFrame, requestIdleCallback, and where events land. 
Hopefully, you'll never have to use setTimeout hacks again!"

Jake Archibald: In The Loop - JSConf.Asia

A core idea of many functional programming languages is the concept of immutable data structures. Working with immutable data has many advantages, avoids so many headaches. But how are they implemented behind the scenes so that everything performs as well as it can?
Anjana explains, how libraries like Immutable.js work behind the scenes without requiring you to bring a lot of Computer Science background knowledge to the table.

Anjana Vakil: Immutable data structures for functional JS | JSConf EU

Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from the TypeScript team at Microsoft joined the show to talk about TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript from Microsoft. 
If you ever wondered why TypeScript came into existence, listen to this show from 2015 to learn about the language's history. 

TypeScript and open source at Microsoft with Anders Hejlsberg &amp; Jonathan Turner (The Changelog #152)

JavaScript

Have you ever thought about building your own text editor? 
It's intriguing but can seem daunting easily. This tutorial does an excellent job of walking you through everything in small steps while explaining relevant Rust concepts as well.


Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust

This book was designed for easily diving into Rust, and it's very easy to use: All you need to do is to make each exercise compile without ERRORS and Panics!

GitHub - sunface/rust-by-practice: Practice Rust with typical examples, challenging exercises and small practical projects.

Zero To Production is the ideal starting point for your journey as a Rust backend developer.
You will learn by doing: you will build a fully functional email newsletter API, starting from scratch. 

Zero To Production In Rust

Applied offensive security with the Rust programming language

Black Hat Rust

Handpicked Rust updates, delivered to your inbox every week.

This Week in Rust

In 2022, Rust is web-ready. If you haven't had a look at Rust web frameworks, check out this post comparing actix-web, warp, and axum. 

Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)

"It's far better to re-work an imperfect solution than to never ship a perfect system." 

Lessons learned from a Rust developer. If you are wondering if the steep learning curve is worth it, read this article.

Mental models for learning Rust

When looking up Rust, one of the most prominent features highlighted is definitely the borrow checker. Rust helps you to write safer code. No need to worry about memory leaks, "use after free" and friends.
But what's the actual product Rust produces? It's not (just) safe code. Read this blog post to learn about a (perhaps unexpected) result.

Safety is Rust's Fireflower

Rust

If you thought Starbucks only sells coffee, you should watch this video. It's a perfect example to look behind the curtain and ask the question "How does a company generate revenue?"

Why Starbucks is Actually a Bank

Best-selling author Simon Sinek offers a new approach to winning at the “game” of leadership.

The Infinite Game

How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world's fastest growing software company in less than a decade...

Behind the Cloud

Do you know why your prospects buy? Learn why your prospects buy products by looking at the 5 step value ladder.

Why People Buy - The 5 Levels Of Value

In this episode, we dive deep with Pete Prowitt on what will make you stand out to make the transition from SDR to Account Executives. Pete talks about his experience along with what he looks for when hiring emerging Account Executives!


Making the Transition from SDR to AE (Pete Prowitt - Director of Sales & Success at Loom)

What's driving customer loyalty in a complex sale? If you think it's price or brand, you should watch this video to get a quick introduction to the Challenger Sale method.

The Challenger Sale

Liverpool is one of the most emotional brands in world football. Let's take a closer look at the management skills of Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool FC and see what you can learn from him for your business.

How Jürgen Klopp Transformed Liverpool into a Billion Dollar Club

The presentation was shown to the new Mercedes salesman in the late 80s and early 90s. Covers lots of sales tips and techniques to help put the customer in the driver's seat.
Even if you're selling software today, this video offers a lot of valuable knowledge, tips, and tricks you can apply to your sales practice today.

1980s Mercedes Benz Dealer Salesman Training VHS

How did Windows become a House-Hold brand? And how does it fit into Microsoft's overall corporate strategy?

Why Microsoft Keeps Beating Apple And Google With Windows

Jeb Blount introduces you to the world of prospecting. Initially, it might seem as it's all about techniques and tools, it starts with mindset and organization. A must-read for everybody who wants to improve on their prospecting game!

Fanatical Prospecting by Jeb Blount | (Autographed) Hardcover Book

Business

C# has been around for over 20 years. Initially, a Windows-only language, it became cross-platform during the mid-2010s and gets increasingly popular among Web and Game Developers

Never worked with C# before? 
Is C# your first programming language? Start here and learn C# programming from an expert in the industry. Get the tools, see how to write code, debug features, explore customizations, and more. 

C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners

Understand the fundamentals of programming? Time to practice and deepen your skills with some small projects and exercises (with sample solutions). 
Tasks are divided into different categories: arrays, loops, strings, conditional statements, etc.

C# programming exercises - examples with solutions

In this article, you will learn how to create Console Application in C# and create calculator activities.

Creating Console Application In C#

Create a random number guessing command-line program

[Project] Creating A Number Guessing Game In C# 

In this video we create a C# Note Taking application, using Windows Form Application and Visual Studio.

Note: This requires Visual Studio on Windows

[Project] C# - Create a Note Taking Windows Form Application

Stephen Walther builds an entire database-driven ASP.NET MVC application from start to finish. This tutorial is a great introduction for people who are new to the ASP.NET MVC Framework and who want to get a sense of the process of building an ASP.NET MVC application.

[Project] Create a Movie Database Application in 15 Minutes with ASP.NET MVC (C#)

Create a simple notes application in C# which stores notes as an XML file.

[Project] C# Create A Simple Notes Application | the coding guys

Ever wondered what the difference between classes and objects is?

The difference between Classes & Objects

Drag and Drop is a common interaction technique added to allow people to intuitively move things around on a page. This could be reordering a list or even putting together a puzzle.  How can we add that interaction when building a React app with React Beautiful DnD? 

How to Add Drag and Drop in React with React Beautiful DnD

Modern React offers two ways of writing components. Using classes has been around for a while. More recent React versions also enable you to write functional components.
When should you use one or the other? Check out this guide to understand the differences between functional and class components.

Understanding Functional Components vs. Class Components in React

React hooks changed radically how we build frontend applications allowing engineers to separate stateful logic from rendering. However, under a seemingly simple API, there are some aspects of React hooks that are the source of bugs and performance issues. 
This article is geared towards those who have been using React and React Hooks for a while, explaining the internals of Hooks to avoid pitfalls.


Hooks Considered Harmful

React

To build websites, you should know about HTML — the fundamental technology used to define the structure of a webpage. HTML is used to specify whether your web content should be recognized as a paragraph, list, heading, link, image, multimedia player, form, or one of many other available elements or even a new element that you define.

Structuring the web with HTML - Learn web development | MDN

Start at the beginning by learning HTML basics — an important foundation for building and editing web pages.

(Course): Learn HTML | Codecademy

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is the combination of Hypertext and Markup language that is used to define the text document within tags.

HTML Tutorial - GeeksforGeeks

HTML Tutorials for Beginners - Learn the fundamentals of the latest HTML5 markup language in simple and easy steps and start building your own website.

HTML5 Tutorial - An Ultimate Guide for Beginners

HTML

CSS is used to apply styles to web pages. Cascading Style Sheets are fondly referred to as CSS. It is used to make web pages presentable.

CSS Tutorial - GeeksforGeeks

An evergreen CSS course and reference to level up your web styling expertise.

Learn CSS

Flexbox Froggy - Learn Flexbox with a Game!

The animation property in CSS can be used to animate many other CSS properties such as color, background-color, height, or width. Each animation needs to be

How to Animate | CSS-Tricks

Our comprehensive guide to CSS flexbox layout. This complete guide explains everything about flexbox, focusing on all the different possible properties for the parent element (the flex container) and the child elements (the flex items). It also includes history, demos, patterns, and a browser support chart.

A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks

A collection of layout patterns built using modern CSS APIs that will help you build common interfaces such as cards, dynamic grid areas, and full-page layouts.

Layout Patterns

Our comprehensive guide to CSS grid, focusing on all the settings both for the grid parent container and the grid child elements.

A Complete Guide to Grid | CSS-Tricks

Wes Bos shared a post on Instagram: "🔥 Three CSS tips for working with inconsistently sized logos". Follow their account to see 1374 posts.

Wes Bos on Instagram: "🔥 Three CSS tips for working with inconsistently sized logos"

Learn the basics of computer science from Harvard University. This is CS50, an introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.


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