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Saturday, 5th October 2019

Client-Side Certificate Authentication with nginx. I’m intrigued by client-side browser certificates, which allow you to lock down a website such that only browsers with a specific certificate installed can access them. They work on both laptops and mobile phones. I followed the steps in this tutorial and managed to get an nginx instance running which only allows connections from my personal laptop and iPhone.

# 5:26 pm / certificates, nginx, security, dogsheep

Get your own Pocket OAuth token (via) I hate it when APIs make you jump through extensive hoops just to get an access token for pulling data directly from your own personal account. I’ve been playing with the Pocket API today and it has a pretty complex OAuth flow, so I built a tiny Flask app on Glitch which helps go through the steps to get an API token for your own personal Pocket account.

# 9:56 pm / glitch, mozilla, oauth

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