Arthur Kay

Hi, I'm Art 👋 I'm an entrepreneur with 20 years of experience as a software engineer. I started "Strategic Software" to share some insights I've polished throughout my career. It helps to have a mentor who's done it all before -- let me help you think deeper and work smarter.

HTML is funny... it has all of these different semantic tags, yet browsers hardly enforce their specific use. As Joonas points out, a DIV is a block-level element whereas SPAN is an inline-element. Browsers treat block/inline elements differently by default, but you can completely override that behavior using CSS. The vast majority of websites and web applications don't follow any semantic...

You'll need to be more specific: are you using GitHub to host your website (via GitHub Pages) or just store your code in a repo (private or public)? In either case, GitHub can be perfectly safe... but there are definitely things to consider re: security, privacy, etc. Happy to chat if you need to pick a brain.

If you’re hosting your Node app in AWS, put a load balancer and WAF in front of it — AWS will mitigate the vast majority of DDoS attacks for you.

The less you try to “generate leads” on LinkedIn, the more successful you’ll be at it. Create content and give it away for free. Interact with your network in a genuine way, and do it consistently (daily). Your network will end up coming to you for your expertise and you’ll never have to “sell” anything. This strategy has worked well for me, but admittedly it’s not a scalable lead generation...

Developers solve problems in all kinds of ways... so having a community of other developers who can help brainstorm solutions is going to be key. Yes, content helps... but it's hard to keep updated and cover all use cases. Also developers would rather jump into the documentation or source code. Product/Marketing can certainly help too... but that assumes you have a rock-solid value...

I try to limit how much I work on the weekends, but sometimes you have to make hay when the sun shines. I’d say I average at least 4 hours a weekend, but sometimes it’s all work and sometimes it’s none

Today I am thrilled to announce that my course Intro to Hacking Web Applications is fully available! This journey has involved more than six months of work, with countless hours spent developing content, recording videos and refining my message that developers need to think like hackers to protect their web applications.