Identity And Biscuits
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Smee Updates
published on 2024-03-07
New releases for the Smee libraries! There are still bugs and missing features, but the suite is now maturing well and has over 1000 tests.
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MDQT 0.8.0
published on 2024-01-13
It’s been awhile since MDQT has had an update and two bugs have been irritating me, so I’m please to announce there’s a new release available now from Rubygems. MDQT is a simple commandline tool for accessing MDQ services, and also working with local SAML metadata.
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Ishigaki 4.0.0 released (now with Shibboleth IdP 5)
published on 2023-10-16
On Friday we released version 4.0.0 of Ishigaki, another major update to our Shibboleth IdP container. Ishigaki is probably the best Shibboleth IdP base container for use with Docker, Kubernetes and other container services, and is available for both AMD64 and ARM64 platforms. This is the first release of Ishigaki based on Shibboleth IdP v5.
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A Cup Of Matcha 20
published on 2023-08-08
(Apologies, it’s taken me weeks to actually publish this)
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published on 2023-07-31
I had some time off this week and didn’t get much done when I should have, but it wasn’t a bad week. Certainly not as bad as it was for some Google staff. I’ve been dabbling/recoiling in horror at Javascript again.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 18
published on 2023-07-24
I had some time off last week - I went to RHS Bridgewater and failed to photograph bees, and to a big Yayoi Kusama exhibition. The rest of the week was apparently headaches. But I still have links!
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 17
published on 2023-07-17
Going to an interesting conference early last week (Manchester Dev Con) coincided with a week of weird migraine symptoms. I’ve been zombie-like. I think my part of my brain has had a week off work - I got absolutely no coding done at all.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 16
published on 2023-07-10
A busy and somewhat stressful week with more surprise consulting work than I’m used to, and unpleasantly muggy weather - both may be to blame for the much shorter list of interesting links this week. Or, maybe there were just fewer interesting things.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 15
published on 2023-07-03
I went to Sheffield last week, which isn’t that unusual in itself (lots of people go to Sheffield) but I think it might be the first time I’ve left Greater Manchester in about 3 years. I went to the UKEduCamp unconference where I only mildly embarrassed myself and met lots of friendly smart people.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 14
published on 2023-06-27
Last week I went to a local one-day conference (Manchester Digital) which I think is the first one I’ve attended since the pandemic. A bit of a strain psychologically (and I managed to scald my hands and soak my trousers with hot water in the first 5 minutes) but a good experience. Which is fortunate because I’ve got at least two more conferences coming up in the next few weeks.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 13
published on 2023-06-19
I had lots of fun last week starting to rebuild my big old metadata processing app using the new Smee libraries that were originally based on chunks of scrappy code copied from it. A few things don’t quite line up properly, a few features are missing, and one or two features need to be optional - other uses of Smee so far (like an MDQ app) assume slightly different data. But overall it’s working out nicely - the new app is simpler, faster and much more reliable.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 12
published on 2023-06-12
I managed to release a couple of things as open source last week and start a couple more, and the old, messy app that Smee is based on is now being rewritten with it. So far the rewrite has definitely paid off.
Continue reading →SmeeLive - making it easier to run Smee packages in LiveBook
published on 2023-06-07
SAML metadata parsing tool SmeeView was released yesterday, joining Smee and SmeeFeds, and like the others it has a LiveBook notebook of examples - there’s a blue button in the readme to open it. LiveBook is a web application that’s a bit like a wiki but has interactive notebooks that can run Elixir code.
Continue reading →SmeeView, a SAML metadata parser for Smee
published on 2023-06-06
SmeeView is a new SAML metadata (XML) parsing extension to Smee. SmeeView provides easy to use functions for extracting lists of information from SAML metadata as Elixir structs.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 11
published on 2023-06-05
I feel like I’ve had a productive week, but trying to finish existing projects has overlapped with fascinating new things that I don’t have time to look at yet. With a bit of luck one of those projects will have a release announcement just to the left of this very soon.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 10
published on 2023-05-29
Two possible projects have interested me this week - even if they eventually go nowhere I’ve enjoyed looking into new topics.
Continue reading →Ishigaki 3.0.0 released
published on 2023-05-25
A major new version of Ishigaki is now available on Github and Docker Hub. Ishigaki is probably the best Shibboleth IdP base container for use with Docker, Kubernetes and other container services, and is available for both AMD64 and ARM64 platforms.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 9
published on 2023-05-22
This week I mostly learned that if you use macros and other tricks to quickly and easily create a very large library of modules and functions, you’ll reach a point where you realise there’s no way to avoid the enormous amount of documentation and tests you now need. But I also found these interesting links.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 8
published on 2023-05-15
There’s a thin line between research and procrastination. Or maybe a big grey area. Anyway, erm, lots of links this week.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 6
published on 2023-05-01
I almost forgot to post this today - it’s a Bank Holiday and I’ve spent the morning trying to spec a new bathroom.
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published on 2023-04-24
There’s no dominant theme this week buts lots of things.
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published on 2023-04-17
There was a strong Postgresql theme last week:
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Shin 0.2.0 - metadata, attributes, and SAML assertions
published on 2023-04-17
Shin is an Elixir client for the Shibboleth IdP admin API.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 3
published on 2023-04-10
Passkeys have been a recurrent interesting topic over the last week. I wasn’t looking for information on Passkeys but it found me:
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 2
published on 2023-04-03
A big list of links this week because I’ve been working through a backlog of messages from mailing lists that built up while I was ill late last year. Plus a few things from last week.
Continue reading →SmeeFeds, an unplanned federation add-on for Smee
published on 2023-03-27
SmeeFeds is a small federation management extension to Smee for use in research, testing and development.
Continue reading →A Cup Of Matcha 1
published on 2023-03-27
I used to enjoy reading a regular link blog called A Fresh Cup until the author, Mike, retired it (and himself, in an non-Blade-Runnery way) a few years ago. A Fresh Cup focused on sharing interesting software development links and was often a great source of neat projects.
Continue reading →Smee, a SAML-wrangling library for Elixir
published on 2023-03-17
Last week we released Smee, a pragmatic library for handling SAML metadata with Elixir, Erlang or any other BEAM language.
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YubikeyOTP, a classic Yubikey OTP Library For Elixir
published on 2020-05-30
We’ve recently released a new open source Elixir library called YubikeyOTP. It’s available on Github and via Hex.pm under the MIT license.
Continue reading →Ishagaki Update: 0.4.8 - Shibboleth IdP 3.4.6
published on 2019-10-07
Yet another patch update to Ishigaki! (The update was last week, but I forgot to post an announcement on the blog)
Continue reading →Ishagaki Update: 0.4.7 - Shibboleth IdP 3.4.5
published on 2019-09-24
Time for another update to Ishigaki, a containerised Shibboleth IdP for use with Docker and Kubernetes.
Continue reading →Ishagaki Update: 0.4.6 - time for Debian 10
published on 2019-08-29
We’ve released an update to Ishigaki, our rather elegant Docker image for the Shibboleth IdP.
Continue reading →Ishagaki Update: 0.4.5
published on 2019-05-01
We’ve released a minor update to Ishigaki, our Docker image for the Shibboleth IdP.
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Return of The Blog
published on 2019-04-25
It seems like a good time to start blogging about Digital Identity again. Indiid’s blog ran out of content after the launch and before the rewrite work, and since then most DIL work has been contract jobs for customers and NDAed.
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