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Identifiers and Authenticators
[Originally posted on Medium here. It's not clear to me whether to keep running with this platform or to use something more convenient like Medium or Ghost.]
Quite literally me thinking out loud about identifiers and authenticators while also trying out this medium.com blogging thing. Feedback is welcome. I …
By:Mark Drummond
On:Thu 16 September 2021
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Continuously Variable Progressive Income Tax
Knowing next to nothing about Economics, despite being an Econ Undergrad, this is a thing I thought. Probably not original. If you are going to have a progressive tax system, instead of having tax cliffs, give every dollar its own tax rate.
Continuously Variable Progressive Income Tax
By:Mark Drummond
On:Tue 12 May 2020
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Auth0 Flask Tools
Another Auth0 project, this time using Flask and the Auth0 python SDK. First up: build my own interface for managing users in an Auth0 hosted user database. The main reason for doing this is to expose
user_metadataandapp_metadatafor editing by an authorized user.You can edit metadata in …
By:Mark Drummond
On:Wed 06 February 2019
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Password Expiry is a Terrible Policy
A pet peeve, and an opinion, triggered by a recent experience:
Regularly occurring enforced password expiry is a terrible policy, whether it is every 60 days, or every 12 months. As a policy, it encourages users to choose the minimally secure password. Given a set of password complexity requirements (length …
By:Mark Drummond
On:Tue 29 January 2019
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Auth0 Command Line Utilities
Not to be confused with my
By:Mark Drummondauthzerocommand line interface, this repo contains general purpose python scripts for interfacing with the Auth0 Management API.
On:Mon 14 January 2019
In:Posts