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Pilcrow
Personal blog · pilcrowonpaper.com/blogprogrammingsecurity
Pilcrow is a personal blog at pilcrowonpaper.com about programming and security. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Is Argon2 better than Bcrypt?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Pilcrow's personal website.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Argon2 better than Bcrypt?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-22
- The never-ending discussion of cookies vs. local storage2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-11
What Hacker News says?
But when you can use them, cookies are demonstrably better. XSS is the main argument against localstorage. Even this article[0], which pillories cookies, starts off with: ...if your website is vulnerable to XSS attacks, where a third party can run arbitrary scripts, your users’ tokens can be easily stolen [when stored in localstorage]. The reasons to avoid cookies: * APIs might require an authorization header in the…
Comment linking /blog/local-storage-cookies/
on “OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider”Submitted Dear OAuth Providers as a story · 439 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next.js, Just Why? (2023) as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please stop using middleware to protect your routes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The never-ending discussion of cookies vs. local storage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lucia, Arctic and Oslo have been deprecated as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding WebAuthn credential protection policy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Argon2 better than Bcrypt? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Argon2 better than Bcrypt? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Argon2 better than Bcrypt? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing NPM Releases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The never-ending discussion of cookies vs. local storage (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I would do auth (by pilcrow, Lucia author) as a story · 1 points
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