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Evan Cordell
Personal blog · evancordell.comprogrammingsystems
Evan Cordell's personal blog at evancordell.com covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Macaroons 101: Contextual Confinement – Elegant Authorization”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Evan Cordell's blog for his Macaroons post, a 101 on contextual caveats for authorization tokens, and for his self-hosted Jekyll and GitHub Pages blog setup. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Macaroons 101: Contextual Confinement – Elegant Authorization2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-29
What Hacker News says?
There's a lot of conversation on when should I use JWTs and when not to. But as alternatives go, has anyone tried using Macaroons? They've been mentioned in HN a few times but I've never seen the tech catch up, even though it looks like a very cool way to implement authorization. Is there any particular reason why? Here are some resources I've found and I think Macaroons is a very interesting concept. Even the paper…
Comment linking /2015/09/27/macaroons-101-contextual-confinement.html
on “Things to Use Instead of JSON Web Tokens”Submitted Macaroons 101: Contextual Confinement – Elegant Authorization as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI've recently settled on a mostly-free self-hosting platform: Jekyll + Github Pages + Google Domains + Kloudsec. Jekyll and Github Pages keeps the deployment simple and Google Domains has proven to be simple, cheap, and reliable. I tried Kloudsec out last week on a whim after seeing it on HN, and so far it's great - simple, free SSL with let's encrypt. https://evancordell.com if interested. It needs a little more lo…
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on “Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?”Submitted Things you didn't know about Kube APIs and CRDs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have written a blog post on macaroons for you: http://evancordell.com/2015/09/27/macaroons-101-contextual-c... It may be sufficiently half-baked (not because I'm unfamiliar with the material but because I'm not sure I wrote it for the right audience).
Comment linking /2015/09/27/macaroons-101-contextual-confinement.html
on “A Child’s Garden of Inter-Service Authentication Schemes”https://evancordell.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”