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Aug 28, 2026 · one of the small things

A test that fails for more than a day gets fixed or deleted

A suite that is 91 percent green is a suite nobody trusts, and a suite nobody trusts is not a test suite. Either the test is wrong and it goes, or the code is wrong and it is fixed. "We'll look at it later" is the option that produces the 9 percent.

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Longer version: the post this came from.

~/tips/today — 2026-09-04

~cat tips/today

Session cookies: HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite=Lax

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Three attributes, each closing a class of attack. HttpOnly keeps scripts from reading it. Secure keeps it off plain HTTP. SameSite=Lax stops it being sent on cross-site POSTs, which is most CSRF.

Set-Cookie: session=...; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax; Path=/; Max-Age=1209600

Strict breaks arriving from an external link while logged in. Lax is the default worth keeping.

↵ open y yesterday l ls /tips

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