Security & IdentityHMAC Webhook Signatures: The Four Mistakes That Pass Code Review
Webhooks pass event data between client and server with clear security guarantees.
A publication about the machinery under everyday software: the contracts between services, the queries behind a page, and the failures that only show up in production.
Sessions, signatures, tokens and the failure modes reviewers miss.
Security & IdentityWebhooks pass event data between client and server with clear security guarantees.
Security & IdentityYou logged in and got a refresh token. You used it, and you got a new one. But now, after the interval between valid refresh-rotation windows, you try to use that first token again, as a…
Security & IdentityThe origin of account-management rules for passkey-based auth typically originates with Google’s 2026 autofill and discoverable-credential guidance, and ends with the NHI's updated guidance…