Pilcrow

Hi! I'm a software developer in Tokyo interested in auth and application security. I love thinking through tiny details and creating things from scratch. Some of my other hobbies are cooking, taking photos, and traveling.

Current projects

• Auth book: a collection of guides, recommendations, and examples for implementing auth in web applications.
• Basic auth example: An open-source example website that implements email address and password authentication following best practices.
• Passwordless auth example: An open-source example website that implements email code sign-in and passkeys following best practices.

Past projects

• Lucia: Former NPM package and current JavaScript/TypScript learning resource on session management.
• Arctic: An OAuth 2.0 client NPM package.
• Oslo: A collection of auth-related NPM packages including packages for cryptographic-operations and the web authentication API (passkeys).
• The Copenhagen Book: A general guideline on implementing auth in web applications.

Links

• Blog: pilcrowonpaper.com/blog
• GitHub and GitHub Sponsors: github.com/pilcrowonpaper
• Twitter: x.com/pilcrowonpaper
• Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/pilcrowonpaper.com
• Email: pilcrow@pilcrowonpaper.com
• RSS feed: pilcrowonpaper.com/rss.xml
• Source code: github.com/pilcrowonpaper/pilcrowonpaper.com