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CMMC Compliance: Why It Matters for Your Business

It’s not easy early in the morning… but let’s talk about CMMC.

If you work with the Department of Defense—or want to—you’ve probably had one of these moments:

  • “Wait, we need how many controls?”
  • “Is this just NIST 800-171 with extra paperwork?”
  • “Can’t we just say we’re secure?”

Short answer: no.
Long answer: definitely no.

What CMMC Really Is (Without the Buzzwords)

CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) is the DoD’s way of saying:

“If you want access to our contracts, prove you can protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).”

It formalizes what many companies should have been doing already:

  • Enforcing strong access controls
  • Logging and monitoring activity
  • Managing vulnerabilities
  • Hardening endpoints
  • Applying real security policies (not just a PDF in SharePoint)

In other words: operational cybersecurity, not theoretical cybersecurity.

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life, Sport

Optimize Your Murph Challenge Experience with This Tracker

The Murph Challenge isn’t a workout.
It’s a systems failure conducted at heart-rate redline.

If you’ve ever tried to remember whether you’re on rep 183 or 193 of squats while your lungs are filing a formal complaint, you already know: human memory is not a reliable datastore under load.

So I built a Murph tracker that does exactly one job well—count reps—while I focus on the important things, like not dying.

🎖️ What is Murph (and why people keep doing it)

The Murph Challenge is performed on Memorial Day to honor Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan in 2005.

It was his favorite workout. Originally named “Body Armor”, which feels accurate in the same way “production incident” feels accurate.

The canonical version:

  • 1 mile run
  • 100 pull-ups
  • 200 push-ups
  • 300 squats
  • 1 mile run

Optional difficulty modifier: wear a 20 lb vest and rethink your life choices.

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webdev

How to Grow as a Full-Stack Engineer: Practical Tips for Young Developers

The brutal truth about leveling up as a full-stack engineer?
Raw coding speed and chasing the latest framework won’t cut it.
While junior developers often fixate on technical skills alone, the engineers who truly accelerate their careers understand a more profound truth: mastery demands rewiring how you think about software development.
Let me share the strategies that separate senior full-stack engineers from the pack – hard-earned lessons that took me years of mistakes to discover.

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Business, webdev

Modern Web Stack Mastery: A Developer’s Guide to TypeScript, Tailwind, Node, and Testing

What do you wish a new full-stack developer to do before their first day to ensure a smooth onboarding experience?

We’d like you to review and strengthen your knowledge in the following key areas. This guide includes recommended resources and specific focus points for each technology.

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Business, life

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“If you seek tranquillity, do less.”
– Marcus Aurelius

In a world that constantly demands more from us, Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less offers a refreshing and counterintuitive approach to achieving success and fulfillment. I finished it last weekend and decided to try to create a summary so I could browse it in the future when people are pushing for ‘more.’

This interesting book challenges the notion that we can have it all and advocates for a more focused, deliberate way of living and working.

The Core of Essentialism

At its heart, essentialism is about doing less but better.

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Business, webdev

A Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”

While software development practices constantly change, there will always be a tier of truly top engineering teams who stand above their peers by combining unparalleled efficiency with top-tier code quality. What are the metrics that will help you evaluate your development team?
That question arises in many startups once you have a team of developers and need to run as fast as possible.

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JavaScript, webdev

SkyMass: A New Way to Build Web Apps

If you’re searching for a fresh approach to developing web applications, SkyMass offers an innovative solution. It provides a more efficient method for swiftly crafting functional web applications for your internal APIs.

Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with SkyMass on multiple projects, and the results have been impressive. Instead of starting from scratch with a React app each time, SkyMass has enabled me to swiftly define the essential components and have a working prototype in a matter of hours or days, rather than the weeks or even months it would typically take.

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webdev

How to write a useful bug report?

Writing a useful bug report is a critical part of the software development process.
A good bug report can help developers quickly identify and fix the issue, while a poorly written one can cause confusion and delay the process. Here are some tips to help you write a practical bug report:

Make Sure You Have All the Necessary Information

Before you start writing your bug report, make sure you have all the necessary information. This includes:

  • A detailed description of the bug.
  • Steps to reproduce the bug.
  • The expected behavior.
  • The actual behavior.
  • Screenshots or videos of the bug in action.
  • The version of the software you are using.
  • Your operating system and browser.
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Business

How To Learn A New Company?

When you are coming to a new company/team, you want to learn about it.
Usually, you wish to do it quickly because there is (always) pressure to start a be ‘productive.’
There are many cases when the opposite is better for the long term.
You want to take your time and learn more about the WHY without giving your biases a place to run. However, reality forces us to push and try to make things faster/better.

Here is a plan that worked for me in the past.

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Business, Design

UX/UI Designer Role At ESGgo

There is an increasing interest in how companies are managing their environmental, social, and governance (ESG). Since it’s a new topic, many companies struggle to cooperate with the changing demand around the ESG arena.

This is why we are building a new platform that will help companies leverage ESG and not struggle with it. Instead of manual data entry into spreadsheets or emails over long threads, our platform automates data collection and reporting across all the company departments. It will also have the ability to create reports, dashboards, and benchmark information that will help you identify gaps. On top of it, we will have an AI layer that will provide recommendations for setting goals and improving ESG standing against any reporting framework.

What is ESGgo?

ESGgo is the ESG-operating-platform for global enterprises.
A group of experienced business professionals and technology experts from Facebook, Google, and McKinsey and teams from the leading Israeli army technology units gathered together to impact the world positively.

We provide best-in-class tools to collect the hundreds of ESG data points across the organization, capture the data and simplify the work-streams.
Moreover, the ESGgo system enables departments to collaborate and analyze the ESG status. Later, the system automatically shares it with the different stakeholders: the management team, board of directors, and even external reports to shareholders.

One of the system’s unique capabilities is that competitive analysis tool: it allows companies to compare external rating agency scores and competitor benchmarks and suggest tactical and strategic actions that could help increase their ESG score.

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