Which free VPN do you use?

I use Private Internet Access. They have many access points and claim to not keep logs (though that's never true). I trust them enough to partially anonymize my traffic, but I would not send sensitive information through them (e.g. visit my banking websites) nor would I trust them to protect my identity / traffic in the case of a lawsuit.. But again, if you just want to mask your IP, it's a good idea.

Anything to do with hardware. Spending hours wondering why the component isn't sending the right data back on the bus. Is it your code? Baud rate's set wrong? Really you just fucked up the soldering or the component is blown or something.

Steven Ventimiglia honestly I can't remember what the program was called. There was a GUI and a live camera, and I was attaching scripts to different objects. I was really stoked when I figured out how to make destructible objects (glass, walls shattering, etc.). Now that I'm rethinking it, the mapmaking was probably CS:Source and the clan website was CS1.6. Sandeep Panda thanks for the mention. Btw, it's kind of annoying that when I get a notification for a mention, the URL doesn't jump right to that mention. I have to scroll through all the comments and find the relevant one.

Oh damn, basic is certainly out of my realm 😆. I like that thought process. Most others have pointed out their starting point, then when they consider their career to have started. For me, there's not really a clear start to my career as it was a mix of schooling, contractual engagements, side projects & official employment. But.. I can definitely pinpoint the times where my life has been consumed by general IT 😂.

Nice Steven Ventimiglia . I played a bit of TF2 though I never did run my own gaming servers. I wish I had more knowledge in those days, would love to poke around at the infrastructure people hacked together just coz they wanted their own area to game. I've been out of the PC gaming community for a while (though waiting for my new rig to arrive in the mail 😁). AFAIK it's now usually the game provider running the "official" servers for multiplayer, correct? That said, I think unofficial servers were a thing on BattleField 4 (xbox).. maybe they're still around.

~15 years since I started. It's tough to say when my professional career began as it was a mix of contracts, jobs and school for many years.

Hi Sandeep, thanks for the welcome! I first started coding around 15 years ago, building levels for CounterStrike 1.6 and building a clan website (PHP + MySQL). I'm not sure when I would consider my professional career to have started.

Yes, in general it's a great idea, but here are some important considerations: Keep your site running Ideally you don't want to do it on your production infrastructure. Have him use a non-production instance of your site (either hosted online, or locally on his computer). If he's testing on your production site (live) your site may go down. Keep your data safe Testing database injections (or other attacks) can potentially harm your data. Again, you don't want to be running the tests on production infrastructure. The best scenario is to work locally. Black-box or white-box He'll have a better chance of finding issues if he has access to the code (white-box). If possible, give him access so that he can find issues. Summary Yes, have people hack your site. But don't let it get in the way of your users and don't let it cause permanent damage.