David Mears·Mar 19, 2021Reimplementing Rails’ CSRF protection in SinatraTo hone my intuitions about Cross Site Request Forgery protection, I’ve been reimplementing Rails’ defence against t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶a̶r̶k̶…
David Mears·Oct 19, 2020(H.T.T.)P.S., I love youAlice and Bob are a married couple who live on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They are deeply in love, though they fight occasionally.
David Mears·Jul 4, 2019The Open-Closed Principle (In Rhyme)Software entities should be open for extension but closed for modification.
David Mears·Jun 9, 2019A worked example of how to write an algorithmIn this short post I’ll show how I think about writing algorithms, which is comp-sci-speak for sequences of steps targeted at a task. I’ll…
David Mears·Dec 4, 2018Programming and linguistics — Makers Week 1A personal update, and an exploration of the ties between programming and linguistics.