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   by 6a68 13y ago

   This is one of my fave posts ever on HN. Nicely done, Tim
2. 32.▲
   by 6a68 13y ago

   One thing I want to add right off the bat: we're going to build new features, where "we" is some of the people who used to get paid to work on Persona + some people in the community. We'd love help! There are some get in
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   Transitioning Persona to Community Ownership(identity.mozilla.com)

   138 points by 6a68 13y ago|61 comments
4. 34.▲
   by 6a68 13y ago

   btw, this is why you should apply for an internship on the Identity team next summer :-)
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   The Wonderful Power of Storytelling (1991)(w2.eff.org)

   57 points by 6a68 13y ago|11 comments
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   Implementing Multidimensional Arrays in JavaScript(0fps.wordpress.com)

   15 points by 6a68 13y ago|4 comments
7. 37.▲
   by 6a68 14y ago

   Actually, there's no reason you can't write your own personal identity provider: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Implementin...
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   by 6a68 14y ago

   Aw shucks, thanks! Unlike Google in 2005, Mozilla is a non-profit actively working to protect user privacy & build a better web. Also, everything we build is open source :-)
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   by 6a68 14y ago

   We've got a lot more to offer than "use the source Luke" ;-) There are tons of technical docs on our MDN page: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Persona You can start with a high-level explanation of why Persona is different and awesome:
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    by 6a68 14y ago

    Hey, so any email address will work. If it's not a Persona identity provider, then you'll just get prompted to create an account with the persona.org fallback IdP. You can see this right now by trying to login using a gmail account vs a yah
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    by 6a68 14y ago

    The Persona branding is necessary because you aren't creating an account with the underlying website--you're creating an account with the persona.org fallback identity provider (that is, unless you're using a yahoo.com email or another Pe
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    by 6a68 14y ago

    Yup! https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/new
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    by 6a68 14y ago

    Here's a medium-level technical overview: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Protocol_Ov... If that's not geeky enough, you can read the spec for the browserid protocol: https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs Comparison to Op
14. 44.▲
    by 6a68 14y ago

    Yow, that's rough. We try really hard to publish docs that will help non-technical users, sites considering using Persona, and potential identity providers. The best starting point is probably the top-level MDN page: https://developer.mozi
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    by 6a68 14y ago

    Thanks sergiotapia! Please ping the dev-identity list with your feature ideas, or open a bug on github; our roadmap depends on community input. We have a list of libraries/plugins in a ton of other languages on MDN: https://developer.mozil
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    by 6a68 14y ago

    nyman stole my karma! ;-)
17. 47.▲
    by 6a68 14y ago

    Uh, Mozilla is happy to hire remote folks worldwide :-) Just sayin'
18. 48.▲
    by 6a68 14y ago

    crickets I had fun writing it, FWIW.
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    Caching dynamic content with etagify(hacks.mozilla.org)

    4 points by 6a68 14y ago|1 comments
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    by 6a68 14y ago

    HN, Techmeme, Twitter. My Twitter feed is mostly pointers to tech/design articles.
21. 51.▲
    by 6a68 14y ago

    Pinged you. Mozilla is always hiring talented devs, remote is absolutely, pathologically supported here :-) Good luck!