No business is too small to be a target for cybercriminals. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are attractive prospects for ransomware. They often have limited resources for security management and have outsourced every aspect of IT. It makes little difference whether that outsourcing is very expensive or the cheapest option available. SMBs also hold valuable customer data, and people remain the weakest link.
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PyPitfall: Dependency Chaos and Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in Python – A critical review
Reading scientific cyber security literature is crucial for continuous development and learning. Engaging with research papers often leads to new insights or a deeper perspective on a subject.
The paper titled “PyPitfall: Dependency Chaos and Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in Python” (arXiv: 2507.18075) captured my attention. Authored in 2025 by researchers from the Computer Science Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Simplify Python
This book is NOT another Python learning book. This book simplifies software development using the Python programming language. So with all key references included that professional programmers use. This Playbook is created to be used daily.
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Pushing complexity to users
Creating simple IT solutions is challenging, but that doesn’t mean your product has to be difficult to use. Too often, we are confronted with seemingly simple tasks like creating a document, ordering a ticket, booking a hotel, or completing a mandatory government form online. Why do these simple tasks turn out to be a nightmare and time sink?
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Finding duplicates in a collection: A solved problem!
We all have used Ms Excel. Or still do. Companies love Ms Excel or store information in databases.
A common challenge is: How to find duplicate row items?
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Solving complex IT problems
In order to solve complex IT problems new technology can help.
Almost everyone in tech agrees that Large Language Models (like ChatGPT) are a generational change in what we can do with software. It feels like the blockchain and bitcoin hype all over again.
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Mastering JupyterLab
JupyterLab is a web-based user interface for Project Jupyter. It provides an interactive development environment for software engineers and scientists to work with Jupyter Notebooks, code, and data.
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The end of a decade: Breathtaking Open IT innovations
Soon 2019 is over and a new decade with new IT innovations will start again. For simple effective problem solving learning from the past is crucial. What worked well and why? What great promising IT technology did not meet the expectations promised?
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Rise and fall of SOLID programming principles
I am a fan of continuous learning. So if possible I go to meetups, conferences, seminars and open space meetings to listen and learn of peers in the digital space. So I went on an evening in September 2019 towards a talk regarding SOLID programming principles. From the very well organized meetup this evening by the company Working Spirit I left with some hard questions and some observations.
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