If you ever made a webapp in JS, chances are you used Express as a web framework, Passport for user authentication and express-session to maintain users logged in. This article focuses on sessions and how we forked express-session to make it more secure. (more…)

Experimentation is very important in our industry. Before succeeding one time, we may need to fail ten times. This is why reducing the time it takes to run our experiments, can dramatically increase… (more…)

Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. (more…)

Recently, we have seen an uptick of JavaScript tools being written in languages other than JavaScript. This blog post lists a few examples and explains the appeal of not using JavaScript. (more…)

Two years ago in our MacStories Weekly newsletter for Club MacStories members, I shared a shortcut that enabled creating wallpapers for iPhone and iPad featuring solid colors or gradients of your choice. Given the newfound popularity of the Shortcuts app ... (more…)