Randall Degges

https://www.rdegges.com

A long-running blog mixing practical programming guides on Django, Node.js, and PostgreSQL with essays on developer careers, productivity, and personal growth.

Randall Degges

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  • My Personal Financial Strategy

    I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about pers...

  • My Personal Financial Strategy

    I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about pers...

  • Please Stop Using Local Storage

    Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session in...

  • Please Stop Using Local Storage

    Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session in...

  • How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security

    Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners ...

  • How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security

    Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners ...

  • To 30 Billion and Beyond

    Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup...

  • To 30 Billion and Beyond

    Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup...

  • How to Monetize Your Website with Cryptocurrency Mining

    I’m a big fan of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. They have a number of interesting applications, one of...

  • How to Monetize Your Website with Cryptocurrency Mining

    I’m a big fan of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. They have a number of interesting applications, one of...

  • Authentication Still Sucks

    I currently own 47 domain names. I know it sounds like a lot, but that’s down quite a bit from my all-time high of 78...

  • Authentication Still Sucks

    I currently own 47 domain names. I know it sounds like a lot, but that’s down quite a bit from my all-time high of 78...

  • Too Busy

    For the last handful of years I’ve been too busy to do a lot of things. Too busy to launch new products on my free ti...

  • Too Busy

    For the last handful of years I’ve been too busy to do a lot of things. Too busy to launch new products on my free ti...

  • I Don't Give a Shit About Licensing

    Every now and then I’m reminded of just how much I hate software licensing. Instead of doing what I normally do and s...

  • I Don't Give a Shit About Licensing

    Every now and then I’m reminded of just how much I hate software licensing. Instead of doing what I normally do and s...

  • Obsessing Over Availability is Dumb

    Over the past handful of years, as I’ve been building and working on several very large and very public API services,...

  • Obsessing Over Availability is Dumb

    Over the past handful of years, as I’ve been building and working on several very large and very public API services,...

  • Two Years of Evangelism

    In a couple short months, I’ll have been at Stormpath for two full years. It’s pretty insane how fast the time has fl...

  • Two Years of Evangelism

    In a couple short months, I’ll have been at Stormpath for two full years. It’s pretty insane how fast the time has fl...