I was approached yesterday by a friend who asked me if I knew a good way to encode (compress) a string of numbers so that it would be as short as possible, while still perfectly readable by a human.

This article explains how to programmatically encode categorical data for use with a machine learning (ML) prediction model such as a neural network classification or regression system. Suppose you ...

Anyone have some C# sample code or class to decode/encode base64 data? I'm new to C#, and I thought this sort of thing would be built-in to .NET. Just looking for a black box that will take a b64 ...

If you have young kids, you'll relate to the value of being able to speak in code. For a few years, I was able to use Pig Latin to speak covertly around my kids. It was handy, and surprisingly ...

Any data that enters your system from outside a trust boundary should be treated as untrusted until proven otherwise. That includes form fields, API payloads, file uploads, headers, cookies, queue ...