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Jul 11, 2026 · one of the small things

Do not install a package published this week

Poisoned versions were on the registry for hours to a couple of days before being pulled. A minimum age means your lockfile never points at one.

# .npmrc (pnpm)
minimum-release-age=4320

Three days costs nothing on stable packages. Override per package the day you need a security fix faster.

securitynpm

Longer version: the post this came from.

~/tips/today — 2026-09-04

~cat tips/today

Session cookies: HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite=Lax

securityhttp

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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