Using Laravel Passport with AJAX requests
Using Laravel Passport with AJAX requests
Published Jan 3, 20208 min read0 comments
When building an app which requires users to log in, Laravel makes authentication easy with its Auth classes. Similarly, the Passport package can be used to facilitate building an API without the hassle of writing an OAuth framework. But Passport also includes a middleware that allows you to consume your API directly from the browser, meaning your API can be used to serve AJAX requests. The benefit to this approach is twofold. You simply only need to maintain a single set of controllers to…
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Enabling the fingerprint reader on a ThinkPad T470 in Fedora 31
Enabling the fingerprint reader on a ThinkPad T470 in Fedora 31
Published Dec 31, 20196 min read0 comments
The Thinkpad T470 comes equipped with a fingerprint scanner to allow easier authorization. Unfortunately, the drivers are still under prototype development but are working in Fedora. In order to use the fingerprint scanner, it needs to be initialized with data which can only currently be done from Windows. First make sure your system is up to date. bash sudo dnf update Restart the machine in order to proceed. In order for VirtualBox to work, some settings need to be tweaked in the BIOS. …
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