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OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell

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OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well, that’s OAuth 2.0.

Last month I reached the painful conclusion that I can no longer be associated with the OAuth 2.0 standard. I resigned my role as lead author and editor, withdraw my name from the specification, and left the working group. Removing my name from a document I have painstakingly labored over for three years and over two dozen drafts was not easy. Deciding to move on from an effort I have led for over five years was agonizing.

There wasn’t a single problem or incident I can point to in order to explain such an extreme move. This is a case of death by a thousand cuts, and as the work was winding down, I’ve found myself reflecting more and more on what we actually accomplished. At the end, I reached the conclusion that OAuth 2.0 is a bad

MatthewReinbold / bad.json

Created September 20, 2022 03:43

An Example of Bad Character in JSON That Breaks Parsing and Validation And Leads To Unhelpful Errors

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	{
	"title" : "Creating Compelling Stories",
	"category" : "",
	"tags" : "Software Change",
	"url" : "/2021/09/10/CreatingCompellingStories",
	"date" : "Sep 10, 2021",
	"content" : "In my last post, I talked about the importance of creating a plausible promise for system change. To briefly recap, a plausible promise must be (1) inspiring enough to attract others to participate and (2) stand a believable shot of happening given all other constraints.But what happens when a change agent needs more than the elevator pitch? How does one move from a plausible promise to a compelling change narrative? The answer is crafting a compelling story for systems change.Why Stories?Storytelling is for more than just screenwriters and teenagers past curfew. Stories are how we articulate the world, our place in it, and the ability to change. “We’re all-in on the cloud” and “We’re an agile shop” are both story excerpts companies retell to shorthand how their technical work

MatthewReinbold / gist:6446311

Created September 5, 2013 05:13

#Merge Sort in Python The forth in a series of *sorting algorithms* developed in **python**, inspired by the visualization here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg . Merge sort is a comparison sort that has the advantage of being *stable* (that is, the order with which like elements are submitted is preserved). While, at first blush, it …

	# setup; build a list with random elements
	import random

	lNums = []
	for item in range(0,10):
	lNums.append(random.randint(0,1000))

	print lNums

	# mergesort, which is the divide and conquer piece

MatthewReinbold / Quick Sort in Python

Created August 5, 2013 04:34

#Quick Sort in Python The third in a series of *sorting algorithms* developed in **python**, inspired by the visualization here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg . Quick sort is also know as a partition-exchange sort. ##Pros: - Despite the worst case making O(n^2) comparisons, usual performance is in the O( n log n) range. - Because it…

	# setup; build a list with random elements
	import random

	lNums = []
	for item in range(0,10):
	lNums.append(random.randint(0,1000))

	print lNums

	# quicksort using python's list comprehensions

MatthewReinbold / Insertion Sort in Python

Last active December 20, 2015 14:59

#Insertion Sort in Python The second in a series of *sorting algorithms* developed in **python**, based on the visualization here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg ##Pros: - Straightforward Implementation - Requires a constant amount of memory space - Can sort as it receives information, as in streaming cases ##Cons: - **Slow**, possib…

	#insertion sort

	# setup; build a list with random elements
	import random

	lNums = []
	for item in range(0,10):
	lNums.append(random.randint(0,1000))

	print lNums

MatthewReinbold / Selection Sort in Python

Last active December 20, 2015 14:49

#Selection Sort in Python The first in a series of *sorting algorithms* developed in **python**, based on the visualization here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg ##Pros: - Simple to Implement (duh) - Can Perform Better than More Complicated Algorithms in Certain Situations, like when Memory is Limited ##Cons: - **Slow**, like on the o…

	# setup; build a list with random elements
	import random

	lNums = []
	for item in range(0,10):
	lNums.append(random.randint(0,1000))

	print lNums

	# we will be scanning the entirety of the list

MatthewReinbold / index.html

Created July 21, 2013 03:32

A CodePen by Matthew Reinbold. Polygon "Trading Card" Flip - Polygon, or more accurately, Vox Media's Chorus CMS, does a very cool trading card effect. You can see a sample at http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/7/16/4503412/starcraft-commentators-tastosis . It turns out that they accomplish this feat using CSS and 3D transforms.

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MatthewReinbold / index.html

Created July 16, 2013 17:59

A CodePen by MatthewReinbold. Dripping Paint - An example of the dripping paint animation on VoxPopDesign.com. Uses the DOM canvas and javascript to animate the individual paint drips.

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OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell