Hello world. This is my puppy Rigel (and Sylvie).

Congrats to our top 7 authors this week! 🎉 @maida.kim built an AI raffle agent and then tried to rig it. Living with MS pushed Stephen J Newhouse to give their AI agents persistent memory. Check out these and more below 👇 dev.to/devteam/top-...

Kim built a personal planning dashboard that reads Calendar, Linear, Gmail, Slack, GitHub, and Granola — with one Keycard login replacing 7 OAuth flows, ephemeral scoped tokens per tool call, and a full audit trail of every credential issued. { author: @maida.kim } dev.to/kimmaida/i-b...

I wrote a blog post about how I built a daily planning agent (called Todaygent, of course) that calls 7 different OAuth resources. I’m so confident in its access controls that I can tell it to delete all my emails or mark all my Linear tasks to Done without any fear that it’ll actually do it.

Congrats to our top authors this week! 🏆 Make sure to check out @maida.kim's analysis of how our concepts of security and trust are shifting as AI agents gain more authority. Plus: a CSS framework built entirely with emojis, teaching a robot to play a board game, and more! dev.to/devteam/top-...

I cleaned my battlestation. I forgot to take before photos, but it was a disaster zone. Took me about 5 hours to clean it

Sneak peek at another diorama: nature’s revenge. This is actually done, I just have to compile all the clips into one video and do the glamour shots 🙃

Am I the only person who thinks season 2 of Deadwood is really poorly written? So many characters are just randomly dropped in (most of them just to be removed right away having had no impact on anything). I hope season 3 is a bit more coherent because season 2 is all over the place.

Finished my Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 handmade figurine of Monoco! I’d been looking at figures online and then told myself I should stop being lazy and just make my own. I’m glad I did!

I’ve been working on a handmade figure of Monoco for the shelf behind me in my office. This is my progress so far. #expedition33

To me, the very best video games aren't flawless -- far from it. They're the ones that are just so good that I don't care about the flaws. All of my very favorite games are flawed in some way(s). Except maybe one.

Twilio to acquire Stytch: www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/c...

FusionAuth’s @maida.kim joins @jazzsequence.com and shares her path through DevRel, why identity work matters, and how art helps her stay balanced.

Me:

The Minicorda’s first field test! It was pretty easy to just carry on the plane, and it’s so quiet I have no concerns playing it in the hotel room.

ICYMI: you can get my modern OAuth stream on demand here: fusionauth.io/webinar/evol...

I’ve been teaching myself fingerstyle and classical guitar. I’ve found myself improving by learning the same song multiple times, but in progressively more challenging arrangements. The progression is really interesting to see when learning this way. It’s very rewarding each time I “level up.”

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

This is my most-anticipated movie this year. I can't wait to watch the entire finished product of this: www.youtube.com/@Flipbookoft...

Next week, I’ll be heading out to Maryland to speak at @jsconf.bsky.social and @ng-conf.bsky.social! It’s been over 2 years since I last spoke at an in-person event (spent that time doing docs, not DevRel). I’m very much looking forward to teaching, learning, and connecting with developers!

The ultimate blocker to weekend productivity. So glad I cleaned the bathroom before sitting down on the couch. Ambitions of kitchen cleaning and grocery store now delayed indefinitely.

Tomorrow I'll be streaming about evolving #oauth and modern best practices. Join me! The session is remote and free. fusionauth.link/evolving-auth

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

CRIME and BREACH are actual vulnerability names. You have to hand it to security researchers for coming up with such epic acronyms. CRIME = Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy (CVE-2012-4929) BREACH = Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext (CVE-2013-3587)

As much as I appreciate the efficiency and productivity #AI lends us in our daily lives, as an artist and creator, it makes me very sad that I feel the need to explicitly take credit for things I make using my own creativity, skills, experience, and insight.

The kitten saga! 1/4 This weekend I discovered these kittens stuck in a tree:

“Because the Victorian gothic revival style building is 143 years old, the mural will be removed with consideration for its historical significance” …uh-huh, sure, that’s totally why it’s being removed.

Episode 5 of Alien Earth was the best Alien movie since Aliens. (Though they should have kept the specimens in tubes made of whatever glass the med bay window is made of in Aliens.) But it's the first Alien content since the 1979 movie to give me the same chills as the original.

What is going on with Digital Ocean #DevRel? They laid everyone off, then did a complete 180 and now appear to be hiring for all the roles they laid off (and the JDs look the same, they haven't changed to super specialized roles or anything). I really hope that anyone who applies asks them why.

I'll be speaking at @jsnation.gitnation.org in NYC in November about Backend-For-Frontend auth architecture for JS apps! You can register to watch the livestream for free: gitnation.com/badges/jsnat...

Documentation Engineer and Senior Developer Advocate roles are open! I’m trying to move fast on both of these. fusionauth.applytojob.com/apply/x2wvNS... fusionauth.applytojob.com/apply/0blyXb...

I'm #hiring for 2 roles on my DevRel team at @fusionauth.io. Learn more in this post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

TL;DR means "Too Long; Didn't Read." TL;DRs belong at the TOP of the post. Not at the bottom. If they're at the bottom, they probably read it already. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

I had the pleasure of being a guest on WIP podcast. We chatted about DevRel, auth architecture, curse of knowledge, and making miniatures and keycaps 🙂 www.wip-podcast.com/p/v005-kim-m...

I’ll be hiring for multiple positions on my DevRel team at @fusionauth.io soon — stay tuned!

I'll be speaking about architecture-driven authentication at @ng-conf.bsky.social this fall! Tickets available here: ti.to/ng-conf/2025

BEHOLD: CARROTHULUS & FRIENDS. 🥕🐙

Frankly, these past 36 hours, I’ve been very, very glad I have prescriptions for both Wellbutrin and Xanax. It’s amazing how quickly your mental health can go into a tailspin. Mental health is so incredibly crucial, and I’ve been gratified to see people get more open to talking about it.

I actually do use em dashes occasionally (and have for a long time). I am realizing that I’m going to have to stop, or people will think the things I say are written by AI, because apparently AI loves to overuse em dashes. 🤷🏻‍♀️

What do we think of Alien Earth so far? To be honest, I'm just excited to have some new sci-fi horror content with creatures we don't already know a ton about. This is my favorite genre, and I love Predator and Alien, but their lore isn't exactly full of surprises anymore.

I started casually teaching myself to play classical guitar last year. My benchmark song is Pachelbel's Canon in D: I've been periodically learning harder and harder arrangements throughout the journey. I'm on my third one now. Feels like progress!

Vacation at our boat-access-only cabin in upstate New York was lovely.

Carrothulu?

I’m infusing olive oil with fresh garlic and rosemary and my hands smell sooo good

I recognize the value of GitHub Copilot, but what is the value of Copilot in other software like PowerPoint? Yesterday, I asked Copilot to go through my presentation and change all line shapes to have round miter, and it was like, “Sorry, I can’t actually do anything to your slides!”

What tool(s) do you use for personal project management?

Golden Gate bridge in the mist

Look at all that green in the Status column ☺️

I have Covid. Every time I’ve had it, it presents mostly the same but with slight differences. This time the fatigue and exhaustion is massive. I made tabouli from the garden (green onions, cucumber, kale, parsley) and it was so tiring I had to lie down for the remainder of the day.

I get to code again. I love it. I'm so happy. I missed it so badly and I'm excited to speak about and show the auth architecture demos I've built.