nfp

So what happened was, I fed up manually uploading pictures I export from Darktable to my Flickr photo stream using the browser's file picker. So I decided to do something about it. The initial idea was to craft a FUSE file system which would automatically upload new files, but this ...

OAuth is not a protocol

30.07.2012

Web, OAuth

Though this post is obviously triggered by the recent damnation of OAuth 2.0 by the (former) spec editor Eran Hammer, it's not directly related to it. These are my thoughts about the technical role of OAuth that I wanted to blog about a year ago but couldn't force myself to ...

Difference between OpenID and OAuth

14.07.2011

Web, OAuth, OpenID

Surprisingly there's much confusion between "OpenID" and "OAuth". People tend to use them as interchangeable terms or consider OAuth as a kind of a new and improved version of OpenID. In fact they are quite different things. I decided to write down my explanation to have a place to link ...