Stop Using JWTs(gist.github.com)

455 points by dzonga 4 months ago | 265 comments

A GitHub Gist arguing that JWTs should not be used for keeping users logged in and that regular cookie sessions are a better, more secure choice.

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)

322 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 237 comments

A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

Obfuscating Lua (2019)(gist.github.com)

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor(gist.github.com)

1542 points by mmsc 2 years ago | 400 comments

A GitHub Gist write-up by a 15-year-old bug hunter describing a Zendesk bug affecting many Fortune 500 companies that earned over $50,000 in bounties.