TIL `github` CLI & Public Suffix List
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While attending the Web Security workshop by Steve Kinney at Frontend Masters today he demoed a neat feature of the GitHub Desktop app: you can install it as a command line tool e.g. github. This becomes useful in the same way installing VS Code as code: when in the directory of your (Git) repo, you can simply do github . to quickly get a GUI. I personally rarely use a Git GUI, but I’ve used the GitHub Desktop app in the past and enjoyed it, so if it at all fits your workflow I think it’s a great tip. As an aside, this is different from GitHub’s CLI e.g. gh.
Another TIL is the Public Suffix List (PSL) contains entries like github.io and vercel.app since users get subdomains on those websites and it’s important that SameSite cookies aren’t shared arbitrarily. Previously, when I first discovered the PSL, I only thought it contained various TLDs. This Stack Exchange has additional context: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/223473/for-samesite-cookie-with-subdomains-what-are-considered-the-same-site
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