> The first thing that would fail is the ability to login to his own site, which...

liviu · on Dec 10, 2013

Yeah, sure.. what about the twitter button from articles or jQuery library included in your pages?

tommorris · on Dec 10, 2013

The jQuery is so I can progressively enhance the post form. Which you can't see unless you are me.

And the Twitter button doesn't use JavaScript. Very much intentionally.

Also if you think I'm being hypocritical by using JavaScript a tiny amount on my site while also decrying it's overuse, then you've failed at reading comprehension.

liviu · on Dec 10, 2013

So, you admit that you are loading a huge javascript library even if you visitors don't need it.

And you tell others that their browser loads lots of unneeded/unwanted scripts? Are you serious?

tommorris · on Dec 10, 2013

No, I'm both a lazy and fallible human being who hasn't gotten around to fixing it. I'm not exempting myself from my own critique.

girvo · on Dec 10, 2013

Out of curiosity, how is Persona for this use-case?

tommorris · on Dec 10, 2013

Works great. I chose it because (a) I couldn't be arsed to write a username/password setup and (b) using things like Facebook/Twitter requires an API key and I can't be bothered.

Optimizing for laziness, Persona sort of won out.

girvo · on Dec 10, 2013

That's exactly what I was hoping to hear. I often build one-off web applications (server-side rendered, not JS-filled stuff unless its needed heh) and I hate handling the user/pass setup and flow. Cool to know that Persona will work well for that sort of thing, cheers!