I wanted an inspirational picture that describes 'the next steps' for a product presentation. What I got was an image of a one legged person committing suicide.

"LLM's are great for interrogating large pieces of text" Only if you don't care if the result is actually correct. Like with specs.

Livestream coming up! 📺 Token Management: Applying the Duende Backend for Frontend (BFF) Security Framework 🗓️ June 4, 2025 ⏱️ 10 EST / 16:00 CEST / 14:00 UTC 🗣️ Speaker: Erwin van der Valk Register here: duende.link/wj42025 #dotnet #security #bff

OAuth 2.0 is powerful, but simple when it comes to dealing with multiple clients. @vandervalk.pro talks on .NET Rocks at www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1950 about using the Backend for Frontend (BFF) Security Framework to simplify your OAuth 2.0 implementation!

This week's .NET Rocks! features Erwin van der Valk talking about the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern and how it can be used to secure browser-based applications. Tune in at duende.link/1950dnr 🎧 #dotnet #bff #security #aspnetcore

Absolutely honored to have been on the Dotnet Rocks show with @richcampbell.bsky.social and @carlfranklin.bsky.social to talk about the BFF security pattern. Check it out at: www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1950

Data Protection in #aspnetcore is an essential part of securing applications while maintaining the capabilities to scale out to meet user demand. But how does it work? Learn more on our blog: duende.link/ywet6ag #dotnet #aspnetcore #identity

Managing OpenAPI Specifications with Backend For Frontend and Swagger UI 📚 We'll briefly recap the BFF pattern, and then dive into a sample & learn how to reveal your OpenAPI specifications securely. duende.link/73hbw12 #dotnet #security #bff #openapi #aspnetcore

I love how spotify announced a price increase and then has a big outtage. It’s what my motivation to move to something else needed.

Fresh Duende.AccessTokenManagement release candidate! 🔑 Named keys for IDistributedCache injection 💸 HybridCache (preview) 📊 Open Telemetry metrics, logs and traces 🏕️ Externalized cache key generation 🎉 and more! github.com/DuendeSoftwa... #dotnet #oidc #security

Secure your #VueJS apps with OpenID Connect & the BFF pattern! 🔒 We’ll look at the basic architecture of a BFF solution, the responsibilities of each component, and how it all fits together. duende.link/eshdrq4 #Security #OAuth2 #OpenIDConnect #dotnet

How are you extending Duende.AccessTokenManagement? 🧐 We are looking at minimizing the public surface area of the library, and introducing targeted extensibility points. Weigh in and help shape what this will look like in v4 👉 github.com/orgs/DuendeS... #dotnet #security #oidc

Congrats to @vandervalk.pro and the whole team! I'm really excited to finally have our Blazor BFF Bits out there in the wild!

Today brings you #IdentityServer 7.2! 🎁 1️⃣ Strict Audience Validation ensures that the audience is equal to the issuer and validates the token’s typ value. 2️⃣ Discovery Document Caching helps throughput in large deployments And more! 👉 duende.link/hjdsk82 #dotnet #aspnetcore

Good news! We just released Duende Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) Security Framework V3. All the necessary components to secure browser-based frontends (e.g. SPAs or #Blazor applications) with #aspnetcore backends. duende.link/iuq3t4n #dotnet

Using Duende.AccessTokenManagement? Upgrade to v3.2.0! Previous versions contain a race condition when requesting access tokens which may trigger errors in specific cases. Advisory: github.com/DuendeSoftwa... Discussion: github.com/orgs/DuendeS... #IdentityServer #Security #dotnet

Let's try this GitHub discussions thing... Who's still on IdentityServer 4, and why? #dotnet github.com/orgs/DuendeS...

If you're still on IdentityServer4, what's the reason?

Hmm… currently watching civil war. Not a feel good vibe. Especially not now.

Duende IdentityServer v7.1.0 general availability release is now live. This release includes .NET 9 support, enhancements, bug fixes, performance improvements, and more. See the release notes: github.com/DuendeSoftwa... #dotnet

Forged my own axe the other day, together with my son.

I'm absolutely delighted to announce that i've joined @duendesoftware.com as a Principal Engineer. I truly enjoyed my time at YuzeData, where I got to work (again) with some of my amazing friends and I'm very proud of how much we have achieved. It's absolutely been a blast!

Has anybody else experienced slowdowns with .net 9 compilation vs .net 8? I'm noticing it especially in ncrunch.

Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n

Time to polish the swords again…

It's 'fun' to see (likely malicious) scanners at work when looking at access logs. For the system I'm working on, I periodically check the access logs. You can clearly see that our system is constantly being scanned by tools looking for vulnerabilities. Any system connected to the internet is.

When you're listening back to a badly AI transcribed meeting and you see this... your brain translates the badly transcribed text into something you actually hear. awkward