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“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck
I sob over Palestine. Mothers, fathers, and children: dead, or dying. 2.2 million people, as of this article, call Palestine their home. I've never been great with articulating my thoughts, but this will be my best attempt, in hopes to inform, and spread awareness with context to the relationship of Israel and Gaza over the last 50 years.
Palestine stands even before the...
Coding can be frustrating. But it can also be one of the most rewarding hobbies. Creating something out of nothing? Sign me up!
However, there is one fatal flaw: Each mistake you make now will exponentially multiply as you continue building your application. The best way to avoid this snowball of errors for your future self? Learn how to code properly: Right now. These little "quick fixes" are your worst enemy, especially when you already know the code running is about as...
Today, large corporations mostly control every aspect of their business. Every icon, step, action, and click is traced, calculated, tracked, saved, and placed inn ways that subconiciously trick your brain into doing what that company wants. It can be subtle, like major fast-food chains using red for their branding to "make you more hungry", but it can also be downright filthy. Leave it to a multi-billion dollar company to do what they do best: Continue scamming the middle class to fill their...
Continue ReadingThere will be no spoilers in this review for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie yet.
On October 27th 2023, the FNAF movie debuted to the public. As of writing this review, the movie holds an extremely high 85% rating with the audience yet a low 26% with critics. (via RottenTomatoes) Honestly, I get it.
As someone who grew up with FNAF and has a deep rooted nostalgia associated with everything: I will be...
There's an increasingly worrisome trend I've noticed in the social media space: misinformation. But this isn't some classic "Oh but Zach, misinformation has been around for decades there's nothing different". That's where you're wrong. This misinformation is being fueled by something far more sinister: corporate dollars.
In 2020 during the height of the pandemic, Tiktok took a noticeable shift from funny cat videos and entertainment, to it's more recent stage of news, education, and...
When we think of music, we don't think of all the components that go into making it. Many popular songs today have several people working on a track. Lyricist, Producers, Mixers, Vocal Trainers, and the featured Artists themselves can all be separate people that contribute to any given track that you might hear on the radio today.
Saying this, I wish I had a co-producer or someone who I could work with to make awesome ideas come to life. But hey, it's just me, myself, and I, and I've...
OAuth2 is a set of rules for communicating sessions between two websites. Think of OAuth2 as the same rules we use daily when we drive to work. Similar to how we all understand red means stop, green means go, and when you see a person crossing the street, most times, you stop. OAuth2 is similar, as it sets a standard that 2 websites can comprehend.
Generating the OAuth URL
To start, b.com must generate a URL and redirect the browser...
You may have come across the phrase "End to End Encryption" once or twice when looking into more recent messaging services like WhatsApp.
Having encryption is ideal, but what makes end-to-end encryption different?
First, to understand end-to-end encryption we need to understand what we mean by encryption in general. Encryption is the process of taking a set of rules (a cipher) and using them to ensure that one or more computers can be confident that they are indeed communicating...