Daily Shaarli
January 7, 2025

This is one of the posts that inspired me to start this site. I'm a fan of Simon's and his description of link blogging resonated with me.

Magic links, those emailed one-time login links, are annoying and inconvenient for folks who use a password manager, but they radically accept some fundamental truths about signing in for everyone else. By layering passkeys on top of magic links, websites can provide a seamless authentication experience for all users.

Subscription websites now like to use magic email links for login. They are extremely annoying.
One of the most potentially transformative shifts in mindset is becoming comfortable with the word βno.β
- View "no" as a redirection (and a continuation of the conversation).