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oauth

OAuth 2.0 vs OpenID Connect: What's the Difference and Which Do You Need?

OAuth 2.0 handles authorization, OpenID Connect handles authentication. Learn the difference, how the tokens compare, and which one your app needs.

OAuth

A Modern Guide to Using OAuth 2.0 with Node.js

Get an OAuth 2.0 access token in Node.js with MSAL, then call Microsoft Graph using built-in fetch and credentials loaded from an environment file.

AI

How AI helped me get my website to a perfect Lighthouse score

How I used GitHub Copilot and Lighthouse reports to improve my blog's performance, taking some of its worst pages from a score of 73 to 100.

AI

Prompt-Driven Development: Building with GitHub Copilot Coding Agents

We used GitHub Copilot coding agents to build an app across different time zones. The AI wrote the code, but prompts, tests, guardrails, and pull requests made it software development rather than vibe coding.

What a Technical Program Manager actually does

What does a Technical Program Manager actually do? A look at the gaps they fill, the decisions they chase, and the reactive vs proactive split.