KEVIN BURKE

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• Virgin Mobile fails web security 101, leaves 6 million subscriber accounts wide open
• How not to ask questions at a conference
• Tips for designing your personal site
• Why code review beats testing
• Reddit's database has two tables
• Markdown.css - let's make the Web prettier

Usability/Design

• How beginning programmers should read a quickstart guide
• How to write documentation for users that don't read
• Designing an API Client Library
• How to talk to career fair recruiters
• Breaking down my school's website redesign

Trivia

• has used a DVORAK keyboard since high school
• downloads email only once every 4 hours
• started a Facebook group that was featured in the Economist
• emailed his entire high school about how to use apostrophes
• made a 10-minute video on myths about foreign aid

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Recent Posts

• Things to Use Instead of JWT
• Pragmatic Web Development in Go
• We Can't Keep Ignoring the Bay's Housing Politics
• Why Leap Seconds are Tricky and How to Deal With Them
• Ethical Considerations for Software Engineers
• Tradeoffs in Software Provisioning Tools
• An API Client that's Faster than the API
• Election Guide (Part 2) - CA Ballot Propositions, State Senate, more
• San Francisco Voting Guide - Propositions and Supervisors
• Dumb Tricks to Save Database Space

Projects

• Doony - a more usable UI for Jenkins
• Hulk - a human-usable, in-browser JSON editor
• Markdown.css - easy, beautiful CSS for your Markdown files
• Tecate.js - making it easier to spot syntax problems in HTML
• Good Morning CMC - a comprehensive daily email for CMC students
• LUXr - internship and website design