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complete history of my posts, dating back to 2008! Besides my blog, I have pages for my creative projects, which are linked to on the thought of a neat little hands-on exercise that shows not only how pas*word hashing works, but shows you a real-world example of cracking been working as a web developer long enough to watch the whole transition from MD5 to bcrypt play out. Any Unix-like environment with the md5sum command. Most Linux distros have it by default as part of the coreutils package. The Windows Or just find a program that can generate MD5 hashes for you, preferably as a do*nloadable program you run on your computer, or one that runs from a web page but in Ja*aScript and without the server being involved. Probably one of the most frustrating things to deal with as a software developer is TIME. Specifically time zones and daylight savings time This week at work, we lost about two days of effort trying to make our web application timezone-aware. Apparently, time zones are so In the past, I had been tasked to update some Python web apps to have them send e-mails out whenever they run into an uncaught Exception In Python it was pretty easy: our web framework, Flask, provides a way to catch any error that happens in any of your HTTP routes. Even if function and catch exceptions globally whenever other code failed to. this wouldnt have been bad, but this particular service listened on both an HTTP port and a separate TCP port in another goroutine. panics thrown by the TCP server. So, like sys.excepthook, I needed to find a way to globally catch panics in my app. looking through it). You know, when real life starts to feel a bit fake like a dream and its hard to un-see that once youve seen it. So Ive reeled in my curiosity for a while and gotten back to normal, but before I forget about all the crazy things I learned, I decided to write it all down in my blog. Ill try and fill this post with links to resources I found interesting along the way. This post discusses topics of spirituality, philosophy, and maybe some metaphysics. For background, I was born and raised Baptist