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Andrew Edstrom

Andrew Edstrom

Software engineering consultant and writer. Dachshund dad. Previously worked at Pivotal and Code For America.

📍 Oakland, CA

The way we do remote team bonding is shockingly uninspired

Since the pandemic hit, I've worked with 7 different teams at 5 companies. Wherever I go, teams are frustrated about how hard it is to bond outside the flow of their day-to-day work. Maybe part of the reason it's so difficult for remote teams to connect is that remote team

The absolute minimum you need to do to stay secure online

There are a lot of fancy things you can do if you want to stay secure online. But security generally comes at the expense of convenience, and for most people the really secure option that takes hours is just not worth the extra work compared to the less-secure option that

How to Set Up OWASP ZAP and FoxyProxy on MacOS

Note: This tutorial was written in 2017. An http proxy is an important item in the hacker’s toolbox. It sits between your browser and the web server, something like this: browser <---> http proxy <---> server Why is this useful? Well, setting up an http proxy allows you to capture all

What You Contribute By Not Knowing

Whenever you start at a new job or rotate onto a team that's working on a problem you haven't seen before—you're going to be bad at first. There is no other way it can be. You haven't gotten the experience yet that you need to become good. This is

hacksplaining.com: A Great Place To Start Learning About Security

We Are All "Security Engineers" It feels like every time I go online, I hear about another major corporation getting hacked. Just this week, news broke that Equifax, one of the three largest credit reporting agencies in America, was hacked [https://www.cnet.com/how-to/equifax-data-breach-find-out-if-you-were-one-of-143-million-hacked/] , giving attackers access to

How To Get Your First Software Development Job (Or Internship)

One of the hardest parts of beginning a career as a software developer is getting your first job or internship. This is doubly true if—like me—you came into programming later in life and don't yet have much experience outside of the classroom. Just like in any field, after

hash: You’ve Probably Never Heard Of This Thing That Affects Every Command You’ve Ever Typed In A Terminal

When you type a command into the terminal, how does the computer know where to find the program you asked it to run? Dumb question, I know. It's which, right? $ which ls /bin/ls Actually, no. Here's the problem with which. which finds the program you ask it for, but