Compound WireTHE STANDUP19 September 2026
datasette-auth-github
SESSION COOKIES NOW LAST
Datasette-auth-github 1.0 fixes session cookie expiry
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github/releases/tag/1.0">datasette-auth-github 1.0</a></p> <p>I run this GitHub login plugin on the <a href="https://agent.datasette.io/">agent.datasette.io</a> 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 <code>Max-Age</code> 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 app.)</p> <p>I fixed that in <a href="h