{
  "id": 8543942,
  "title": "datasette-auth-github 1.0",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/datasette-auth-github-1-0",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-19T19:52:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/19/datasette-auth-github/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the plugin was setting cookies without a Max-Age parameter, so they were expiring at the end of a browser session (which in Mobile Safari seems to happen pretty often, independently of how you are using the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}