During the last couple of weeks I have had the opportunity to work with a web application that required a new user management system. As most people know I am very much against using frameworks - and for good reasons. Let's talk a little about that. https://unixdigest.com/articles/using-a-framework-can-make-you-stupid.html
I have previously written about some of the major problems with so-called modern web development in some of my articles, mainly So-called modern web developers are the culprits and Is the madness ever going to end? and I have addressed the issues to the developers themselves. However, in some cases the business owners and managers are the main driving force behind the bad decisions, so if you're a business owner or a manager looking for the quick fix regarding web development - or software devel
As a response to my article, So-called modern web developers are the culprits, someone stated that my advice was outdated because today we make web apps, not websites. I will address that issue in this article. https://unixdigest.com/articles/no-your-website-is-not-a-webapp-even-if-you-call-it-so.html
There is something seriously wrong with the IT industry. It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry. https://unixdigest.com/articles/is-the-madness-ever-going-to-end.html
My mother turned 70, February 2021, and she has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years. My mother-in-law is 65, she has been using Linux on the desktop since 2015. https://unixdigest.com/articles/my-70-year-old-mother-has-been-using-linux-on-the-desktop-for-the-past-21-years.html
Debian was a very famous Linux distribution in the communications industry and it was my personal favorite for many years, and I think I have been running it in production since about 1998 up until the time when the systemd conflict arose. Since then the priorities of the Debian project changed and Debian was no longer what Debian used to be. https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-delusions-of-debian.html
Since I wrote The delusions of Debian, I have received a lot of email. I have therefore decided to do a small follow-up about the true meaning of Long Term Support (LTS). https://unixdigest.com/articles/linux-distributions-long-term-support-might-not-be-what-you-think-it-is.html
A lot of myth and misunderstanding exist regarding how security is handled by package maintainers on the different Linux distributions and BSD variants. Let's take a look at the subject. https://unixdigest.com/articles/how-security-is-handled-by-package-maintainers.html
Reddit, fora, mailing lists, etc. are filled with questions and debates about whether operating system A is more secure than operating system B, or whether operating system A is faster than operating system B. Such questions and debates makes very little sense. https://unixdigest.com/articles/questions-about-which-operating-system-is-more-secure-or-the-fastest-make-no-sense.html
The term zero trust is a security model, also known as "perimeterless security" that has been known for a long time and that was e.g. implemented internally at Google in 2009 in a project called BeyondCorp. In recent years, mainly due to the high amount of IT security problems we all are facing, the term gained renewed focus and popularity when cybersecurity researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released their Zero Trust Architecture publication (PDF).Zero trust is
