How OAuth works (with real-world examples)
A practical walkthrough of OAuth: the main actors, the authorization code flow, and how access and refresh tokens keep the party going.
Hey, I’m Mitch, a software engineer based in Austin. I work at Clerk, helping build tooling to help AI use Clerk the best way possible.





A practical walkthrough of OAuth: the main actors, the authorization code flow, and how access and refresh tokens keep the party going.
A shell function that wraps git worktree so I can spin up, list, and clean worktrees without thinking about paths.
Modern development leans on AI. Worktrees let every branch live in its own folder so agents and humans can move in parallel.
I often need to take notes while working on a branch, but don't want those notes committed. Here's how I do it