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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Oct 6
    At the end of the day, OAuth is just a way to communicate between services and users, and as such it's easy to grasp and non-controversial.

    OAuth solved a universal problem – signing into a web site – and, in doing so, created a new problem: how does a site know it's really you?
    Aaron Parecki
    Follow @wtf_oauth for your daily dose of OAuth humor, which will be funny to approximately 0.0001% of you
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 52°F
    8 likes 1 repost
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 7:23pm -07:00
  • John Allsopp https://twitter.com/johnallsopp   •   Oct 7
    what I usually say to speakers is a rough title and 3-4 bullet points of what you want to cover as a start-I think why it's challenging is folks try to "sell" the talk from the get go, rather than refine the focus, then worry about selling it
    Aaron Parecki
    here you are trying to be actually helpful and I've just gone and set up a new parody twitter account @wtf_oauth

    now back to work, let me actually read this now 😅
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 52°F
    2 likes
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 7:20pm -07:00
  • Gabe Cohen https://twitter.com/_gabecohen   •   Oct 7
    https://www.copy.ai/
    Aaron Parecki
    I think copy.ai has it out for Khan Academy

    "I want to start a company based around making great educational content on truly complex concepts like OAuth. Think Khan Academy but also feel like you're talking with an expert."
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    2 likes 1 reply
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 6:21pm -07:00
  • Jesse Vincent https://twitter.com/obra   •   Oct 7
    Write the full talk, then train a neural net to summarize the transcript.
    Aaron Parecki
    That would very likely get me a better result than feeding this AI 3 sentences and having it come up with comedy gold like this:

    "OAuth is like having the Facebook app on your phone, but you are using the same password that you are using for everything else."
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    2 likes
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 6:18pm -07:00
  • Not Fake Adam Kalsey https://twitter.com/akalsey   •   Oct 7
    Give the same talk repeatedly.
    Aaron Parecki
    I actually mostly do, but for this one I want to branch out and approach things differently
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    1 reply
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 6:12pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Oct 6
    oh but this sentence it made is gold:

    "Developed for internal use at Google, OAuth is an elegant solution to making web services easy to use while keeping your private data private."
    Aaron Parecki
    this is so much more fun than writing this CFP:

    "At the end of the day, OAuth is just a messaging protocol for communicating between services and users, and as such it's easy to grasp and non-controversial."
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    3 likes 1 repost
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:54pm -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Oct 6
    oh my god it's repeating sentences back to me that I've written in blog posts and other places online 😂
    Aaron Parecki
    oh but this sentence it made is gold:

    "Developed for internal use at Google, OAuth is an elegant solution to making web services easy to use while keeping your private data private."
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    2 likes 1 reply
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:50pm -07:00
  • John Allsopp https://twitter.com/johnallsopp   •   Oct 7
    shoot it over and I'll write it for you! :-)
    Aaron Parecki
    well now I'm trying to describe what I'm trying to write about and realizing that if I could do that well that would be the CFP 😅
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    2 likes 2 replies
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:47pm -07:00
  • Gabe Cohen https://twitter.com/_gabecohen   •   Oct 7
    https://www.copy.ai/
    Aaron Parecki
    oh my god it's repeating sentences back to me that I've written in blog posts and other places online 😂
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    4 likes 1 reply
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:47pm -07:00
  • John Allsopp https://twitter.com/johnallsopp   •   Oct 7
    this is why I write a lot of the abstracts for speakers at our conferences! I know speakers often hate this bit the most!
    Aaron Parecki
    wow that is next level! 💯
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F
    1 like 4 replies
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:41pm -07:00
  • foone https://twitter.com/Foone   •   Oct 3
    god this post continues to be relevant. I've yet to block someone who is like UM ACTUALLY CRYTPYO IS GOOD ACTUALLY without them having their favorite crytypo in their name and all over their bio
    https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1442846073316265984
    Aaron Parecki
    I appreciate that you've misspelled all the words because otherwise my bot would have auto-blocked you by now and these threads continue to be just gold 😂
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 56°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:18pm -07:00
  • Farasath Ahamed https://twitter.com/farazath619   •   Oct 6
    Thanks @aaronpk for the clarification 👍
    So OAuth 2.1 is essentially OAuth 2.0 without the naughty bits :)
    Aaron Parecki
    That's one way to say it 😂😂😂
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F
    2 likes
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 8:21am -07:00
  • Farasath Ahamed https://twitter.com/farazath619   •   Oct 6
    Noticed that the resource owner password and implicit grants are removed from the 2.1 (For obvious reasons :))

    But doesn't that make the OAuth 2.1 framework backward incompatible with OAuth 2.0?

    OAuth 2.1 kind of gives the feeling its a slight(minor) change from OAuth 2.0
    Aaron Parecki
    Password and Implicit are already not part of OAuth 2.0 as described by the Security Best Current Practice. The 2.1 update is leaving them out so that you don't have to first learn about them and then read another doc telling you not to use them.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F
    3 likes 3 replies
    Wed, Oct 6, 2021 8:17am -07:00
  • Doug Bowman https://twitter.com/stop   •   Oct 4
    And where did you come to point that out? 😉
    Aaron Parecki
    my website of course 😉
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 57°F
    2 likes
    Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:27am -07:00
  • Micah Silverman - #BLM https://twitter.com/afitnerd   •   Oct 4
    challenge accepted
    Aaron Parecki
    hey wait a minute
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 57°F
    Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:09am -07:00
  • Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson   •   Oct 4
    what are you using to generate the SVGs to plot? Lately I've been using Shapely in Python.
    Aaron Parecki
    I started looking at Processing and p5.js like everyone, but then ended up doing this one in PHP 😂 Not even with an SVG library, just building SVG strings by hand too.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 56°F
    2 likes 1 repost 1 reply
    Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:35am -07:00
  • Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson   •   Oct 4
    Congrats on your Axidraw!
    Aaron Parecki
    haha thanks it's been fun so far!
    Portland, Oregon • 56°F
    1 like 3 replies
    Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:32am -07:00
  • PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Oct 4
    Happy birthday to me!! How’s your morning going?
    Aaron Parecki
    Happy birthday? I always did enjoy a game of bumper cars for my birthday.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F
    2 likes 1 reply
    Mon, Oct 4, 2021 9:31am -07:00
  • Thomas Cantrell https://twitter.com/thomas_cantrell   •   Oct 2
    One of my favorite usages of my Tiles, again when I used to travel.
    Aaron Parecki
    I never got on the Tile train, but kind of feeling like I was missing out now!
    Portland, Oregon • 55°F
    Fri, Oct 1, 2021 9:39pm -07:00
  • Gabe Kangas https://mastodon.social/@gabek   •   Oct 2

    @aaronpk Are you here long?

    Aaron Parecki
    I'm on my way home! I completely forgot you're in SF otherwise I would have suggested we get lunch! 😭 Next time!
    Alaska Flight 3334 SFO to PDX in San Francisco, California • 70°F
    1 reply
    Fri, Oct 1, 2021 7:53pm -07:00
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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