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On Entropy and Passphrases

security
math
tech

Passphrases have been in the news again lately, because of a big data breach at Lastpass, which may have been more serious than Lastpass first revealed.

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Looping in Javascript

javascript
programming

Javascript and Typescript have way too many ways to iterate and loop over arrays, objects, and iterables. In this post I try to collect them and make some sense of them.

Welcome to my new blog!

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nuxt
ai

I've been thinking about starting a simple blog to share my thoughts on whatever topics come to mind, and replacing my old website from the '90s. I'm a big fan of Vue and Nuxt 3 so it makes sense for me to use Nuxt for this.

Javascript Promises and Async/Await

javascript
programming
async

I recently came to Javascript from too many years in a C/C++/Python world. Javascript is very familiar in many ways, and different in quite a few as well (see: all the ways to import/export in Javascript — not that Python’s module/import system is so great either.) As a systems-level programmer, I like to know how things work all the way down to the metal. It’s satisfying, but it also really helps with debugging.