Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need

Learn how to use React Icons and other React-ready icon libraries to easily add ready-made SVG icons to your React projects. Continue reading Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need on SitePoint.

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Brute force cryptanalysis

A naive view of simple substitution ciphers is that they are secure because there are 26! ways to permute the English alphabet, and so an attacker would have to try 26! ≈ 4 × 1026 permutations. However, such brute force is not required. In practice, simple substitution ciphers are breakable

Straddling checkerboard encryption

Introduction Computers fundamentally changed cryptography, opening up new possibilities for making and breaking codes. At first it may not have been clear which side benefited most, but now it’s clear that computers gave more power to code makers than code breakers. We now have cryptographic primitives that cannot be attacked

View Transitions in Astro

This introduction to view transitions in Astro is excepted from Unleashing the Power of Astro, available now on SitePoint Premium. Continue reading View Transitions in Astro on SitePoint.

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Skills top tech companies are hiring for in 2024

If you read the latest news and op-eds on technical hiring today, it may seem like the tech industry has been overtaken by the need for skills in one hot new area: AI engineering. Generative AI tops the list for in-demand technical skills published by McKinsey, Forbes, TechCrunch, and many

Getting Started with Content Collections in Astro

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Hacking the hamburger: How a pentester exposed holes in hundreds of fast-food chains

Ben and Ryan talk about the hacker who exposed a security vulnerability in AI-powered software, security risks of smart devices, symbolic deduction engines in AI, and the programming language that features time travel.

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