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Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack | Remote (some US states) or hybrid | Full-Time | https://lil.law.harvard.edu/ The Harvard Library Innovation…

Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack | Remote (some US states) or hybrid | Full-Time | https://lil.law.harvard.edu/ The Harvard Library Innovation…

Lack of physical escape key with vi is not a problem for me. An old trick is to remap caps lock (never used) to Ctrl (constantly used), which is easier to reach from "asdfhjkl" han…

Location: Oregon/South Dakota Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No; willing to travel Technologies: OpenID Connect, JWT, OAuth, SSO, LDAP, SAML, FIDO, RBAC, ABAC Résumé/CV: https://…

Little late to the party but have you considered using something like an authorization server? We created Anvil Connect (based on OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect) to solve a bundle of…

We might be a good fit. At Anvil Research we need help with documentation, blog posts, tutorials, and user guides for Anvil Connect. It's an open source identity hub built with Nod…

In fact, unlike previous OpenID protocols, OpenID Connect is a profile of OAuth 2.0. The conflation of authorization with authentication is an accident and a mistake. They are stil…

Understood, and I'm glad to live and let live in general, but this one is too close in subject matter to my own work and may eventually lead to confusion about who's doing what. Th…

This is an interesting looking project, but I have to say I'm not crazy about the author's use of the name Anvil. I've owned the domain anvil.io going back several years, I've been…

> Why should we own cars? In the city, I couldn't possibly agree with this more. When I lived in Boston I sold my car after the first two years because it was a ridiculous expense …

This Google Hangout starts in about 30 minutes: "ICE Code Editor is the JavaScript 3D visualization programming environment used throughout the book 3D Game Programming for Kids. I…

Working on an IDaaS platform partly based on this open source work: https://github.com/christiansmith/anvil-connect Anyone interested in trying this out or collaborating, please ge…

This may not be any indication. A Firebase competitor named GoInstant was bought by Salesforce, used to build a few things internally at that company, and very recently shut down a…

I didn't take it personally at all and if you have the time and inclination I'd love to hear more about your experiences. Please feel free to email me. smith at anvil dot io.

> Before making suggestions like this and getting the HN bandwagon to support this POV, perhaps we should put ourselves in the startup's shoes? As a founder, I am in a startup's sh…

Don't forget about persistence. Creating a horizontally scalable database isn't likely to be a trivial matter. Somehow I don't think Twitter Bootstrap is going to be much help ther…

I'd like to take that devil by the horns and strongly suggest that companies like Firebase, who clearly deliver a critical infrastructure dependency for anyone using their service,…

Oakley, we love it when you show up. You always have great questions for the discussion!

Forrest, we'd love to see more Bloomington people join in! Great things going on in your neck of the woods ;-)

About a year ago some friends and I started meeting up monthly in a Google hangout to explore the internals of open source software we use everyday. Our motivations were simple: kn…

If Moniker's customer service is any indication of the way their operations are managed, this doesn't surprise me at all. The company was an absolute nightmare to deal with when I …

The entire history of the human species is an inspiration and motivation, depending on what you choose to read into it. We are practically an infinite collection of case studies in…