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Luke Skywalker, Sith Lord

One evening, while geeking out with my daughters I decided to share a theory I had with them about Star Wars — specifically Return of the…

12 min readOct 20, 2015

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What’s the Best Hashing Algorithm for Storing Passwords?

Most people will default to bcrypt when choosing a hashing algorithm for storing sensitive information — but why? Are there other choices…

2 min readJan 10, 2022

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What’s the Best Hashing Algorithm for Storing Passwords?

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What is Big-O Notation?

When I started writing The Imposter’s Handbook, this was the question that was in my head from the start: what the f*** is Big O and why…

2 min readFeb 9, 2022

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What is Big-O Notation?

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Mod and Remainder Are Not The Same

A remainder and a modulus look so very similar, but they are not the same thing and worse, are treated differently by different programming…

6 min readAug 21, 2018

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Mod and Remainder Are Not The Same

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Creating a Full Text Search Engine in PostgreSQL, 2022

Writing a full text index in PostgreSQL is an art form. You need to know what your users are looking so you can build the right index AND…

2 min readSep 3, 2022

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Creating a Full Text Search Engine in PostgreSQL, 2022

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🥷🏽 Self Sabotage: The Good Parts

I’ve been listening to books about business and personal growth over the last month and I noticed something interesting when it came to the…

8 min readMar 11, 2024

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🥷🏽 Self Sabotage: The Good Parts

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Trying Something Different: A Real World Tutorial for Frontend Programming

TL;DR I’m making a course on Vue 3 and Nuxt 3 which is about 60% complete. There’s a book (90% done), a 30-ish video walkthrough of…

8 min readJun 9, 2023

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Trying Something Different: A Real World Tutorial for Frontend Programming

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Seven Simple Steps to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Getting over imposter syndrome is no easy task, but it starts by recognizing a cold, hard truth: you’re being toxic to yourself and those…

14 min readFeb 5, 2023

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Seven Simple Steps to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

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I Accidentally Got Ridiculously High Visiting My Mom, and it Changed My Life

I remember clearly filling the dropper and popping two squirts of the stuff into my tumbler of soda water. I thought it was bitters, some…

14 min readJan 7, 2023

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The Importance of Knowing Your Numbers

As programmers we tend to think of reports after the fact, often when it’s too late. I learned this the hard way over the last few days.

5 min readDec 19, 2022

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The Importance of Knowing Your Numbers

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Rob Conery

Rob Conery

12.1K Followers

Author of The Imposter’s Handbook, founder of bigmachine.io, Cofounder of tekpub.com, creator of This Developer's Life, creator of lots of open source stuff.

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