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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 environment. The goal is to create a searchable repository of free and open-source code that includes helpful s...

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 value is with a bitmask. A bitmask is just computer jargon for an integer that represents a different v...

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 scheduling tasks and some basics of writing scripts. By the end of this post, you should be able to start p...

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 things like creating, editing, and removing files and directories, and searching files for a specific p...

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 educational purposes only. This post intends to teach you, the developer, how to prevent malicious attacks on...

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 other language it becomes easy to stay comfortable. At some point, we all get comfortable with where we...

Leaving Your Developer Comfort Zone