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Dan Cobb

I'm a web designer and web developer from North Carolina who likes to experiment with new languages, computer security, and scripting.

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Introducing PirateWeb

May 31, 20213 min read

Snippets that build the web. PirateWeb.Dev is a place to share code that helps build the web as we know it today in a free and open-source...

Introducing PirateWeb

Snippets: User Permissions with Bitmask

Dec 25, 20205 min read

Sometimes user permissions can become a complex mess that is hard to manage well in our code. One way to manage those permissions using an integer...

Snippets: User Permissions with Bitmask

Linux Basics: Zip It Up and Script It

Dec 24, 202028 min read

In this entry of our Linux Basics series, we will go over some popular commands for compressing files and directories. We will also talk about...

Linux Basics: Zip It Up and Script It

Linux Basics: Touching Files and Making Dirs

Dec 19, 202024 min read

In this entry of our Linux Basics series, we will begin to uncover some of the file interactions possible through the command line. We'll touch on...

Linux Basics: Touching Files and Making Dirs

WebSec: Reflected XSS

Dec 15, 20207 min read

In this web security article, we are going to cover Reflected XSS. We'll cover what it is, how it works, and how to prevent it. This is for...

WebSec: Reflected XSS

Leaving Your Developer Comfort Zone

Dec 13, 20207 min read

It's easy when you first start getting into programming to stay with what you know. It doesn't matter if you are coding using PHP, Node, C, or any...

Leaving Your Developer Comfort Zone