APIs make apps like a restaurant
Simplified explanation of APIs You walk into a restaurant and the hostess takes you to a seat. The waiter walks up and hands you a menu. You browse the menu looking over the available choices. ...
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You’re the most dangerous thing to your company
How hackers use Social Engineering. It’s Monday morning. You just made it to your desk. As you’re taking the first sip of coffee, you start scrolling through your emails. Google sent you an email saying ...
What’s A Zero Day and Why They’re Scary
Reconsider not updating your technology This past week, Apple released an update to patch 2 zero day exploits. This is a good time to explain zero day exploits and vulnerabilities. Zero days are dangerous. There ...
Operating systems are the middleman for computer data
Explain Operating Systems like I’m 5 When we simplified servers we talked touched on operating systems but let’s dig deeper. An OS (Operating system) is the software allowing the hardware and software to work together. ...
Bulletin Board Systems: The Origins of the Internet
Explaining Bulletin Board Systems Back in the 1980s, there wasn’t a way to connect to one another via a computer. Talking about your interests required meeting up in person. In 1979, 2 engineers came up ...