nikhil.io

Excellent piece covering OAuth2 in way more depth than I needed for a class I’m taking. But as the author notes:

Thinking about why OAuth2 protocol has been designed the way it is, turned out to be a great exercise in threat modeling with immediate, straightforward and practical approaches to mitigate these threats. They can be reused to solve similar security concerns in other contexts outside of OAuth protocol, so you can benefit from a deep understanding of the protocol even if you are not a security expert who has to know the ins and outs of OAuth2.

There is no useless knowledge. Cached.

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There is the purposeful degradation of the pool but I don’t know how else one would do it without buying more disks for a separate pool entirely. Author helpfully provides a lot of links to places you can back up your stuff to (with prices!)

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Been writing bash scripts for over 15 years now. Learned a lot from this presentation. There’s also this advanced bash scripting guide I’ve referred to for a while now.

A cannot-believe-this-is-free collection of Physics videos on everything from Classical Mechanics to QM.

By the same author who wrote The Little Go Book

All a typical dev would need to know really.

I love this. There really is nothing (or at least very little) that’s new under the Sun.

If there’s a TL;DR it is the second line: “Don’t put any lines in your vimrc that you don’t understand.”