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3dbrows commented on OAuth from First Principles stack-auth.com/blog/oauth... · Posted by u/n2d4

shreddit · a year ago

Yes, the blog post is very informative (although the images do not scale well on mobile).

My previous post was based on the phrase “open-source Auth0” (in your blog post) and we use Auth0 (and don’t like it). But all of out apps are react, not nextjs

3dbrows · a year ago

I’m currently evaluating Auth0 and other similar services with a view to migrating from Cognito. May I ask what you don’t like about it?

3dbrows commented on Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server pub400.com/... · Posted by u/throwup238

mvkel · 2 years ago

> Currently there are issues sending mail to outlook, gmail, hotmail, and yahoo (they use outdated nospam-block lists and do not help us in finding a solution. Please find a more serious mail provider.

... very curious to know what this sysop considers a "serious mail provider."

3dbrows · 2 years ago

I imagine it means one with a higher coefficient of greybeard admins.

3dbrows commented on The Darién Gap en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar... · Posted by u/FPGAhacker

jakderrida · 2 years ago

>I’m not sure it was mainly rich folks who suffered. I've read it was 1/3rd of their annual GDP.

>Some argue we are still feeling the effects of this today. Of course you are. Think of it this way. The reason they poured everything into it and kept pouring more into it wasn't just to increase personal wealth of investors. It was a unique opportunity to poll vault towards becoming a major European empire. While they knew it was a massive endeavor, the rewards would be incalculable. For them to control the most important manmade waterway to global trade 3 times as long as the US has would be a success story that we'd be reminded about in every grade school class but Golf and Gaelic.

3dbrows · 2 years ago

Yep. Rotten luck with the malaria and blockades, eh.

3dbrows commented on The Darién Gap en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar... · Posted by u/FPGAhacker

dfawcus · 2 years ago

There was more to the Scottish colony in Darien failing than just that, the English state had a hand in it, and an incentive to ensure it failed.

As to the post failure financial effect, that was mainly on a bunch of rich folks. Scotland per-se was not in any financial distress after the failure of the scheme, as it was private individuals, not the state which had invested.

Have a read of this piece, which covers a lot of the history around the failure of the Darien Scheme.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/weekend-essay-skintland-britna...

3dbrows · 2 years ago

I’m not sure it was mainly rich folks who suffered. Many small scale investors also lost money. So severe were the losses that something like 25% of private wealth in Scotland was destroyed.

Some argue we are still feeling the effects of this today. It certainly didn’t help with social attitudes towards being miserly with money (which we very much are).

3dbrows commented on Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide resend.com/blog/email-aut... · Posted by u/zenorocha

3dbrows · 2 years ago

Does Resend use AWS SES under the hood?

3dbrows commented on Shit life syndrome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi... · Posted by u/tjpnz

arethuza · 2 years ago

I don't think it's accurate to say that all coastal towns in the UK are doing badly - I can't help noticing there here on the east of Scotland you have on different sides of the Firth of Forth Methil, which is deprived, and North Berwick which is doing very nicely.

Different histories, reliance on different industries, quality of transport links make a huge difference.

Not even all coastal "tourist" towns are doing badly - I live near Burntisland in Fife which actually seems to be thriving, probably because of the excellent location for commuting by train into Edinburgh, combined with nice beaches, great views (of Edinburgh!)...

3dbrows · 2 years ago

It seems to be true that they are either doing very well or very badly.

St Andrews? Elie? Lovely. Methil? Granton? Pass.

Are there examples of “it’s alright” seaside towns above some threshold size?

3dbrows commented on The worst API ever made (2014) caseymuratori.com/blog_00... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

nvy · 2 years ago

Once, I tried to write a GUI program in pure win32, that would have a custom window shape like demoscene intros/warez cracktros.

Once.

3dbrows · 2 years ago

I’m sure you managed to get the MIDI background music working easily though.

3dbrows commented on UK inflation falls to lowest level (7.9%) in more than a year bbc.co.uk/news/business-6... · Posted by u/sarreph

intelVISA · 2 years ago

We have a lot of UK expats at the shop, apparently it's very easy to poach the equivalent of MIT grads and some YOE with a wage that's barely above an intern over here...

I don't understand it either.

3dbrows · 2 years ago

I hate how accurate this is. Imagine you are a UK resident, born and raised, who went to the UK’s top school for CS (4-year degree). You made American friends at university who later moved back home.

15 YOE down the road and you are making $80k as a good senior SWE. You are absolutely bewildered that your American friends who you studied with make comfortably double that.

Make it make sense.

3dbrows commented on 2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server brutmanlabs.org... · Posted by u/mbbrutman

3dbrows · 2 years ago

Could this claim the title of “oldest host on the public internet serving traffic”?

At first I thought “~100 days, so what?” - but that was before I knew this was an 8088 managing to hold up to even just the background noise of the modern net (portscans, etc). It’s surviving being slashdotted by HN. Very impressive.

3dbrows commented on Easy HTTPS for your private networks getlocalcert.net/... · Posted by u/8organicbits

3dbrows · 2 years ago

I wrote about something along these lines a couple of years ago [0] and thought the idea was dead due to rate limiting. But does LE now regard each subdomain as having its own limit, rather than taking that of the parent domain?

[0] https://3dbrows.dev/

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