Make a Discord Bot with Python
This tutorial walks through the process of creating a server, creating a bot, and writing a custom Python script to power the bot.
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Security with Go - My book now published!
Check out Security with Go, a book I recently wrote, available from Packt Publishing. It covers secure development, red team and blue team topics and is useful for developers and infosec professionals like analysts, investigators, engineers, and pentesters. It's a great book if you want to get to know Go better or if you want to start using Go for security.
Discord Webhook Tutorial to Check Bitcoin Price with Python
This tutorial walks through the process of creating a Discord webhook and triggering it with a custom Python script.
Burn Out
Life is a marathon, not a sprint. If you stay up all weekend working or studying and ignoring your sleep, you're going to start the whole week off with a crash. If you throw caffeine or alcohol in to the mix and you only amplify the effects. Caffeine doesn't actually give you more energy it only prevents your body from realizing how tired it actually is. To me, caffeine is like borrowing energy on credit. You're borrowing energy from the future and with the crash you pay an interest penalty. Your energy also becomes inconsistent if you don't sleep on regular schedules and avoid caffeine.
Priorities
Don't focus on trying to get all of the little wins. Don't go for the low hanging fruit just because you can knock it out the fastest. Go for the most important task that will move you towards your most important goal. Constant progress, even if only a little, is critical to maintaining focus and momentum towards the goal. The small tasks should be seen as the cherries on top, the dessert to be had after the main course. You don't want to get full on dessert and junk food before you eat the entree. Emails and ad-hoc tasks never stop coming in.
Book Review: Data and Goliath
I recently finished reading (well, listening) to Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. The author is Bruce Schneier. If you don't know who he is already, you can read more about him on his Wikipedia entry and his personal website. These are my thoughts about the book and some of the interesting points that I found.
Similarities Between Music and Programming
After years of learning and teaching both music and programming, I have noticed many similarities. These are some of my opinions and interesting scientific studies that give some insight in to their relationship.
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