Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks.

WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your backend requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh.

Simplify integrations with WorkOS Pipes.

Craig Grannell (Mastodon): Still, I did write ‘Why I want Apple Arcade to include classic arcade games – and why that’ll never happen’. But now it has happened, thanks to Retrocade. And here’s the bit that genuinely surprised me: Retrocade is good to the point I think it’s the best entry point for normal people […]

Apple (via Hacker News): The traditional Mach scheduler attempts to achieve these goals by expecting all threads in the system to be tagged with a priority number and treating high priority threads as interactive threads and low priority threads as batch threads. It then uses a timesharing model based on priority decay to penalize threads […]

Brent Simmons (2025): With retirement imminent — this is my last job, and June 6 is my last day (maybe I’ve buried the lede here) — I want to thank my team publicly for how they’ve made me a better engineer and, more importantly, a better person. Brent Simmons (Mastodon): I’m not retiring from writing apps — […]

Kirk McElhearn (Bluesky, Hacker News): I use Apple News to keep up on topics that I don’t find in sources I pay for (The Guardian and The New York Times). But there’s no way I’m going to pay the exorbitant price Apple wants for Apple News+ – £13 – because, while you get more publications, […]