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Kumail Hunaid
@kumailht
Design partner for founders; sharing along the way. also building: https://t.co/2gyDVjHy7o https://t.co/FhVBiaRo4Z
Jan 23, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Most engineers don’t understand how #authentication works. Here’s how it works in a few tweets, easy peasy! 👇 A user is authenticated if they carry with them a session token that is valid.

All of authenticating a user is boilerplate around this concept.