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Hi all,

Can anyone recommend any resources (books, websites, papers, lectures, etc.) about building secure websites and software services generally? I know this is a very broad topic, and so I understand that there won't be a one size fits all resource.

Topics that are of interest include: - considerations for building a secure login on a website - interfaces for authentication & authorization in web apis - considerations for storing customer / user information - considerations for communication between backend services and 3rd party services - probably lots of other things that I haven't even considered!

What’s a new skill / subject matter you are trying to learn? Do you have a particular motivation for doing so? What has your process been like?

If you are a self employed software engineer… how does that work? What is your schedule like? How do you find work? What do you do?

…For lack of a more precise question, I really just want to know: what is it like?

I often feel that there is very little that software engineers can do using our technical skillset that will help prevent climate change / pollution / ecological destruction.

Am I wrong? Is there anyway we can leverage our skill set to help?

Hi hacker news,

I am a professional software developer with a few years of experience.

I want to learn more about programming languages and their implementations.

I have started reading a handful of books and articles on the subject, but I want to engage with the material using more of a hands on approach. I am hoping to learn more about programming languages through self driven exploration by implementing a handful of increasingly complex languages.

Can anyone here recommend a list of programming languages that I could attempt to build compilers / interpreters for?

Preferably, the list would be ordered from easiest to implement (simple toy languages like brainfuck) to more complex and feature rich (maybe something like lisp)?

Thank you!

What was the last moment in which something technical (or otherwise) just clicked? What exactly did you learn?