Django

What’s CSRF? Cross site request forgery is a type of attack where a malicious website tricks a user into performing actions on another site where they’re authenticated. This is usually done by embedding a form in the malicious site, and submitting it to the target site. An example of this would be a card game website where, when you hit the “Play” button, it sends a POST request to another site with the payload to change your login email address to the attacker’s. Since you’re logged in to the target site, the request goes through and you lose access to your account. ...

Every engineer that loves Django and has a blog has at least one of these posts. Django’s ORM is excellent, but given enough time it’s easy for approaches that weren’t mistakes to grow into mistakes This is a great thing, because it usually means your company didn’t go bankrupt, you’re still here and can fix things, and the company is doing well because the scale increased (hopefully your compensation as well). ...