This post contains the notes that I took during FOSDEM 2026. The big new topics this year seemed to be on AI & digital sovereignty. But off course the main subject matter of the conference will always be beer open source. The following notes are some ramblings combining what the speakers said and thoughts I had while listening. I took them for future references and decide to publish them because 🤷 why not. ...
Notes on day 1 Identity and Access Management Devroom This room is cursed. – The video volunteer when entering the room in the morning. Day two stared of great with a some great presentations in the IAM devroom. I woke up early so I could get a seat on the front row and was happy that I did. Thomas Darimont giving a presentation on OpenID’s shared signals framework. ...
Principles Let’s first describe some principles that should in order of importance. 1. Pragmatic Security When creating an API the primary goal is to solve a problem for a user or organisation. But we don’t want to create new problems by introducing vulnerabilities. When designing or implementing a new feature always consider how it could be abused and strive for security by design. Be pragmatic, solve problems don’t create new ones. ...