Password-less Authentication Using Magic Links
In this article, after I rant a bit against passwords, we will look at implementing magic links, a password-less authentication method.
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Let's go CSRF-ing!
Get your surfboard ready, we are heading to the sea ... and the less than relaxed and laid back world of CSRF (pronounced "sea surf") attacks!
Building a link shortening service
Time for a nice little side project: let's build a link shortening service!
Actually, more than giving you all the code to achieve it, we will go over the process of spec'ing and architecting one such service, following a given set of constraints.
Optimising a JavaScript library with WebAssembly, a failed attempt!
One of the main benefit of using WebAssembly is that it is more performant than plain JavaScript code, in most cases. Hence, the idea to try and optimise the latest library I released by re-writting it in Rust!
Implementing ranges in JavaScript
Ranges are natively supported by a few (popular) programming languages. They allow for iteration over a defined space, while not having a linear increase in their memory footprint (all ranges always store a similar amount of data).