“Although security.txt is not yet an official Internet standard as approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its basic principles have so far been adopted by at least eight percent of the Fortune 100 companies. According to a review of the domain names for the latest Fortune 100 firms via gotsecuritytxt.com, those include Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, HCA Healthcare, Kroger, Procter & Gamble, USAA and Walmart.”
A few weeks ago I realized OWASP has a top 10 for API security as well. The first version was published in 2019. There are enough differences in API security versus application security to warrant a separate list. However, that project is very light in terms of Docs: https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/
I just returned from traveling for 7 months. I met so many people who were amazed about what I was doing (working while traveling). They literally had no idea that remote work and digital nomadism was a thing. When they found out from me though, they wanted it. This excited me that they were amped about the idea, but I had no scalable way to show everyone how to get a remote job.
So when I got back home I wrote down everything I knew about getting a remote job. I looked for the commonalities in the approaches I used to get three remote jobs in my career. The end result was a 7-day email course: http://robertgibb.me/free-remote-job-course/. I'm not selling anything here. I just chose email as a format because Mailchimp is free (for a while) and each lesson takes about a day to complete, especially if you already have a busy schedule. I felt that sending time-based emails would help keep people on track.
I don't care how this information gets out there, I just know it needs to get out there. There are people who are on the brink of major depressions and breakdowns because of their shitty cubicle jobs. (I used to be one of them.) I wish someone would have sent me actionable information like this when I was fed up with my office job years ago.
This course is based on the approach I used to land 3 remote jobs in my career as a marketer. I structured it though so anyone who can work from their computer can implement it - from accountants to developers.
This is a very opinionated piece -- the author even admits that in the introduction -- but he covers the pros and cons of JavaScript quite fairly. He also links to a lot of great resources that helped me, who am very very new to JS and coding, learn about the different JS tools and applications in a very short time.
As an aspiring startup creator currently working on a project, I got so much value form this first video course in YC's startup school (https://www.startupschool.org/). Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook and Asana, both give succinct, memorable lectures.
Here are some of my takeaways from the course...
From Dustin:
- Rather than starting a startup, it could be better to join a small or large company with traction (more resources, more reach, better chance of success, potentially equal payout if you join early)
- Starting a startup is fucking hard (long hours, not glamorous, high chance of failure)
- You should only start a startup if you “can’t not do it” (think of yourself 30 years from now -- will you be saying to yourself, “Wow, I should have given that thing a real shot?”)
- You should only start a startup if you have passion and aptitude (you’re the best person to do it, you want to do it, and you’d be depriving the world of something incredibly valuable if you didn’t do it)
- To not fail, you need to be persistent in finding new ideas and accept when one idea isn’t catching on with the market
From Sam:
- What’s on your side as a founder is that it can be very expensive for investors to write off crazy ideas
- Machine learning and A.I. are going to be the next big things (like the Internet, smartphone, etc)
- It’s easier to start a hard company than an easy company because you attract a lot of great talent and interest when you have a big idea
- Cofounders are good, but only have a cofounder that you have a shared history with
- A cofounder that shares your vision is better than a cofounder with the skills you need
- When you start a startup, go niche/narrow -- start with a smaller market that will really love you
- Get to know your users really well (visit them, ask them hard questions, spend the day with them)
- Only hire good people; don’t hire mediocre people just because you need people now (“the team you build is the company you build”)
- Don’t give up -- ever -- if you believe in what you’re building and people want it (someone applied to YC seven times before getting accepted)
- You have an obligation to yourself and your investors to take care of your health
I think this is a story about working really fucking hard and then naturally having cool things come your way as a payoff. What you want might be 4 years away, but opportunities you don't think a lot about like this can be yet another motivator.
I am a fan of Google Drive. It allows for awesome collaboration, and, like the author of this post says, lets you put your storage to work. Reliable storage on its own isn't that cool; but reliable storage that empowers other applications (Docs, Sheets, etc.) is cool and extremely valuable.
The author says: "But as competitors have built elaborate offerings where you can put all that storage to work, Dropbox has kind of stagnated."
Or maybe I and the author are just gaga for Google and blind to what Dropbox truly offers.