andybarlow.dev

It's been a long time

2025-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

I have been meaning to get this blog back on the road again for... two years. The reason I havent is that frankly, I have been far too busy with work and side projects, in addition to the general busyness of having a family.

To summarise the last couple of years in this post;

We bought a house in the Highlands in Scotland</li>
I started being involved in identity standards, such as the IETF + OIDF working groups</li>
I spoke at Identiverse this year in Las Vegas 😱</li>
My twins got really into minecraft and pokemon</li>
My dog got bad legs, and even more grumpy</li> </ul>

oauth2.dev

2024-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

oauth2.dev is a suite of developer tools and references for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

Visit: oauth2.dev →</a>

Features:

Identity claims wiki (IANA registry of OAuth and OIDC claims).</li>

OpenID configuration validator for discovery endpoints.</li>

JWKS endpoint validator</li>

RFC search across OAuth 2.0 and OIDC specs.</li>

JWT token generator for testing.</li>

Base64/URL encoder and decoder.</li>

JWT debugger to inspect claims and signatures.</li>

Enhanced registry search with filters, bookmarks, and exports.</li> </ul>

Hello World, again!

2024-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

Just a quick note to say the blog is alive again! I say "alive again" - I think it never really lived. But, im going to give this blogging thing another go.

I have a bunch of things in my head that I should probably write down, and this seems like a good place to do it. A few things I would like to cover are;

My family</li>
My new job</li>
My new house 🤞</li>
What the dog has been up to lately</li>
Some engineering things</li>
A few projects I have been working on
- although you can find some of them over in the Projects tab</li> </ul> </li> </ul>
 I have been very busy for the last few years, so theres a lot to write about. However, ill try and keep it short and sweet (for this one at least).
 Andy