Tag: popular

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• DevOps from Scratch, Part 1: Vagrant & Ansible

  Published:Sep 19, 2016 |  at 12:32 PM

  Ever wondered how to build and deploy a web app from scratch? This is the first part of my 'DevOps from Scratch' series, where we'll get hands-on with Vagrant and Ansible to automate our local development setup for a Python web application.

• Answers to Django Security Questions

  Published:Oct 16, 2015 |  at 06:56 AM

  I found a list of Django security questions but couldn't find clear answers anywhere. So I dug in and wrote them myself, covering everything from CSRF and SQL injection to password hashing and mass assignment.

• Dangerous Python Functions, Part 2

  Originally:Aug 15, 2015 | updated Feb 21, 2026

  In part 2 of my dangerous Python functions series, I cover more risky functions like pickle.loads(), yaml.load(), and tempfile.mktemp(). These can lead to code execution, deserialization attacks, and race conditions.

• Dangerous Python Functions

  Originally:Jul 26, 2015 | updated Feb 21, 2026

  Python's dynamic nature can lead to subtle bugs that are hard to catch. I've created a deck of cards highlighting dangerous Python functions like eval(), exec(), and input() that can cause security vulnerabilities or unexpected behavior.

• Code Review Best Practices

  Published:May 5, 2015 |  at 08:54 AM

  A comprehensive guide to effective code reviews, covering what to look for in terms of architecture, style, and testing, as well as how to provide constructive feedback.